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The Senate.
Senate belongs to the legislative branch. That branch is made of two parts. The Senate and the House of Representatives. The Senate has 100 people, to from each state. While the House has 435 people who come from districts in each state. The number of people that the House is decided by population, so the states with the larger populations have more House members.TOGETHER they are called Congress.
The two houses of the legislative branch of the US government are the House of Representatives and the Senate. These two houses together are referred to as Congress. Each U.S. state is represented in the House in proportion to its population. Each U.S. state is represented in the Senate by two senators, regardless of population.
The official titles of each presiding officer is: The Senate: Vice President The House of Representatives: Speaker of the House. When the VP is not available, they have a person who is called the President Pro Tempore.
journal of each body