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Senators in Congress
Topic Started: 9 Jun 2016, 03:07 AM (653 Views)
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Congress has 535 voting members: 435 Representatives and 100 Senators. The members of the House of Representatives serve two-year terms representing the people of a single constituency, known as a "district".


June 4-5, 1862

In frustration, the Senate appointed a three-member committee to consider moving the chamber to a location with windows. Preoccupied with the war, the Senate took no action, and another 70 years passed before air conditioning ended this seasonal complaint.
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I always thought their term lasted 4 years, guess it explains the 2 yearly voting..
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On May 12, 1912, the Seventeenth Amendment, providing for direct popular election of the Senate, this was approved by congress.

Although state ratification of the Seventeenth Amendment came quickly and easily, congressional approval of the idea of popular election of the Senate did not. The first resolution calling for direct election of the Senate was introduced in the House of Representatives on February 14, 1826. From that date, until the adoption of the Seventeenth Amendment eighty-six years later.

I always thought they had 4 years in a term. So I learned something new.
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Here's me thinking 4 year term, but had to be re voted back after 2 years to finish the 4 year term.. :S
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I think that must be how it is done. I will keep looking in my books.
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I'd like to know more, I'm a little confused now, I thought their term was 4 years, but needed to be re voted in again after 2 years.. It seems it's an expensive electoral system if it is 2 years, it must cost a fortune to get re elected, they'd likely spend more time campaigning than doing things fr their states..
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Senators serve six-year terms and elections to the Senate are staggered over even years so that only about 1/3 of the Senate is up for reelection during any election.


LOL I think this is getting confusing to me.
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Ahh, maybe that explains the senator voting every two years..
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I think so, but still a bit confusing lol...
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Senators belong to the legislative branch of the government, which is the part of the government that makes laws. A senator's job is to represent the people living in his or her state in the United States Senate. Part of this job is to write and vote on new laws called “bills.”
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So they do a different job to the congressmen?..
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Yes, the congressmen represent the entire state and hold hearings as well as develop and voting on legislation. All laws must pass them before it goes to the president.
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So things go from senate to congress, then to the president?..
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Yes and then if can be bounced around the senate and the house for months it seems like, before it ever gets to the president. Both the senate and the house have to come to an agreement on the issue or bill.
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Seems they're having that problem at present with the sit in they had there over the gun control..
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Yes they are and the Democrats want gun control to be stiffer then it is and the Republicans seem to think it is okay the way it is.
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Seems the Republicans think it's fine to have massacres that kill upwards of 50 people, that's nuts..
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Seems to me that the republicans are out for themselves and there friends.
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It seems to me the National Rifle Association has to much clout with government members..
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IMO they do have to much power and need to be tamed down.
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About my thoughts too, maybe the rifle association gives too much in campaign contributions, maybe that's the problem..
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In my research I have found that they give in the hundreds of thousands of dollars in contributes to the parties. I think that they need to not be so involved myself.
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I guess if you stop them, you stop businesses contributing too, only fair really eh..
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That would seem fair. IMO the politicians should make it on there merits not how much money they can raise.
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That's the fair way, a pity it doesn't always happen eh..
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I think it is a pity that they seem to think that people are interested in how much money they can bring in for the parties. I believe that the way you can do the job is a better way to get the office.
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They need money for their campaigns I guess, but they shouldn't get millions of dollars to do that..
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It is my understanding that they are raising money for the whole party and they should be doing it on their merits IMO not out raising all these millions of dollars. I feel that they wanted to represent the people so then merits is what counts.
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Going by the current elections, it looks like both Clinton and Trump have spent millions on their campaigns so far, going by the news item I posted the other day Trump has spent so much he's now begging for money so he can continue his campaign...
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Yes he is and that is after he said he didn't need the rest of the republicans help.Turns out that he needs more help then he thought. Tends to make me wonder how he is going to manage things if he got to be president.
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