A member of congress is elected for two years; a senator is elected for six years.
The branch is divided into 2 parts in the government whose parts are called the Senate and the House of representatives is called Congress.
There are three types of House Committees: 1) standing committees elected by members of the House, 2) select committees appointed by the Speaker of the House, and 3) joint committees whose members are chosen according to the statute or resolution that created that committee.
Congress (the Senate and the House of Representatives) is the legislative branch, whose members are elected by *direct vote* (the people cast individual votes); in this way, Congress was designed to represent the citizenry (the House) and the States (the Senate); substantively, however, this isn't necessarily the case: Congressional members can only reflect the concerns of those who vote and fulfill their civic duties, or respond to fiduciary inducements from lobbyists and campaign contributors and other outside influences that skew the intentions and purpose of having a representative form of government.
There are at least 24 countries around the world whose lower chamber of government is called "The House of Representatives." They all have different rules about when members take office.
The executive branch
The upper house of the Canadian parliament is the Senate, whose members are appointed. The lower house is the House of Commons, whose members are elected.
The upper house of the Canadian parliament is the Senate, whose members are appointed. The lower house is the House of Commons, whose members are elected.
Many of the Founding Fathers intended the Senate (whose members were originally chosen by the state legislatures) to be a check on the popularly elected House, just as the House was to be a check on the Senate. The "advice and consent" powers (such as the power to approve treaties) were therefore granted to the Senate alone. The House, however, can initiate spending bills and has exclusive authority to impeach officials and choose the President in an electoral college deadlock. The Senate and its members generally have greater prestige than the House because Senators serve longer terms (six years) in a smaller body and (in all but seven states) represent larger constituencies than Representatives.
Many of the Founding Fathers intended the Senate (whose members were originally chosen by the state legislatures) to be a check on the popularly elected House, just as the House was to be a check on the Senate. The "advice and consent" powers (such as the power to approve treaties) were therefore granted to the Senate alone. The House, however, can initiate spending bills and has exclusive authority to impeach officials and choose the President in an electoral college deadlock. The Senate and its members generally have greater prestige than the House because Senators serve longer terms (six years) in a smaller body and (in all but seven states) represent larger constituencies than Representatives.
Congress is made up of the Senate and the House of Representatives, whose members are elected by the citizens of the state they are running for office in, so they are elected by the people of their state.
The Parliament of Canada is comprised of Her Majesty the Queen (represented by the Governor General), the Senate (whose members are summoned by the Governor General on the advice of the prime minister), and the House of Commons (whose members are elected using a single-member plurality system at each general election).
The branch is divided into 2 parts in the government whose parts are called the Senate and the House of representatives is called Congress.
the state's populationcongress
The House of Commons.
There are three types of House Committees: 1) standing committees elected by members of the House, 2) select committees appointed by the Speaker of the House, and 3) joint committees whose members are chosen according to the statute or resolution that created that committee.
Congress (the Senate and the House of Representatives) is the legislative branch, whose members are elected by *direct vote* (the people cast individual votes); in this way, Congress was designed to represent the citizenry (the House) and the States (the Senate); substantively, however, this isn't necessarily the case: Congressional members can only reflect the concerns of those who vote and fulfill their civic duties, or respond to fiduciary inducements from lobbyists and campaign contributors and other outside influences that skew the intentions and purpose of having a representative form of government.
There are at least 24 countries around the world whose lower chamber of government is called "The House of Representatives." They all have different rules about when members take office.