Because in the Senate there are 100 members, 2 per state. In the House of Reprisentatives, we vote for the best people, and a few at a time can go.
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the house of representatives was based on the population of the state and the senate was 2 representatives per state no matter the population.
The House Of Representatives has 435 people in it. The senate has 100 people.
All revenue bills must start in the House of Representatives. Represenatives do not have unlimited time to talk on the floor. They can be over-looked or given a time limit by the rules of the House of the Speaker of the House. Senators have no time limits and may talk indefinately unless there is a cloture vote in which other members of the Senate vote to halt discussions of the current item before the Senate.
Their parties have more members in it
They can’t have more members in the senate because everyone gets 2 members. In the House it is based on population and NY all ready has more members than Rhode Island.
The filibuster can be used in the Senate but not in the House