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In both the US and Australia is it considered the lower house.
In the United States, the lower house is considered the House of Representative. In reality, their authority in lawmaking is equal.
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It is the equivalent of a State Representative because California's lower House in the legislature is called the State Assembly.
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The presiding officer is the one who speaks in the House of Representative.
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Alaska is a bicameral institution, consisting of the lower Alaska house of representative's, with forty members, and the upper house of Alaska senate, with twenty members
They are chosen by voters
"Representative". However, the House of Representatives has so many different committees, each of which has its own chairman who nominally "runs" the committee, that you'd have about a 50% chance of being right if you addressed him or her as "Chairman".
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The U.S. House of Representatives is most commonly known as simple the House. It is also called the Lower House of Congress.