Each house is the judge of elections, returns, and qualifications of members in Congress.
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the qualifications:
Every senator mus be at least thirty years old, a citizen of the United States for nine years, and must be a citizen of the state they are to represent at the time they are elected.
who judges them:
each house decides whether a member has the qualifications for office set by the constitution
Each house is the judge of elections, returns, and qualifications of members in Congress.
Each house of Congress has the power which was established through the U.S. Constitution to judge the elections returns, and qualifications of its members. The Senate created its own practices for judging the qualifications of its members in contested elections. This practice began in 1789.
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House of representatives: 435 Senate: 100 Congress: 535
All of them. There are no poor members of Congress.
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