The Senate has 2 reps per state. That's 50 states times 2. 100 in the Senate.
The House has reps based on population. It gets complicated but basically they stopped basing it on the number in the population and set the total number at 435 and now base it off relative population. So the house has way more members.
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The two parts of the legislative branch are called the House of Representatives and the Senate. While the Senate has 100 members, the member number for the House of Representatives is based on a state's population.
The Legislative Branch of government is the Congress. The U.S. Congress is made of the House of Representatives and the Senate.
It is not the executive but the legislative branch (the US Senate) that confirms cabinet, judgeship, and other Presidential appointments.
The house of representives and the senate.
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