The Constitution sets the powers of Congress in Article I, Section 8 of the United States Constitution. These are called expressed powers, powers carefully listed in the Constitution. The only difference in the two houses is that all money bills must originate in the House of Representatives. Also, to become a law, a bill must be approved by both houses in exactly the same form.
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The House of Representatives has more than two powers. Two of the powers they hold exclusively are: 1) Origination of all revenue (tax) bills.
2) Initiation of impeachment proceedings,
the mace is in the house of reps and when the government go to the senate they take it with them
I know why you are confused. There are two houses the House of Representatives and the Senate. There are 100 members in the Senate and 435 in the House of Representatives.I know why you are confused. There are two houses the House of Representatives and the Senate. There are 100 members in the Senate and 435 in the House of Representatives.
The Senate has the power to declare war, use a filibuster, final say on proposed laws. The house of Reps. does not hold this powers. There may be a few more powers that i am missing.
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.
The total number of Representatives in congress is 435