The US Senators from Pennsylvania are Casey and Specter.
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
Not really; actually, I believe it is quite the opposite. Since there are less members in the Senate, it is harder to get elected. However, neither one is really considered the "upper house" like the House of Lords used to be in Great Britain.
You have two chambers of parliament as per British and Indian parliaments. The members of lower house are directly elected by the people. The members of upper house of parliaments are indirectly elected by the elected members from other systems of local governments. Some of them are selected by the King or Queen or President on the recommendation of the prime minister. They are the expert persons in various fields. This upper house is in fact should be called as a lower house and vise verse, as the members do not represent the people directly. In the democracy the people are the supreme authority.
At least one, and there is no upper limit
The number of electoral votes for each state is equal to the sum of its number of Senators and its number of Representatives in the U.S. House of Representatives. Based on the 2010 Census, there are 18 members of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania. Therefore, Pennsylvania has 20 electoral votes.
(in the US) There is no "upper" and "lower" houses of Congress, they are both equal. Under the US form of government one cannot function without the other. Only the geographical areas of the representation of their members, and the terms of their service are different.
The Senate is designed to be the upper house and to have members serve 6 year terms because it was felt that one part of the legislative branch should have expertise in making the decisions and laws. The House was designed to be the lower house because the members are based on state/district population from a census every 10 years. It was meant for the house members to only serve 2 years and have limited powers.
One Government has 1 house of representatives. In the Australian federal system there is the house of reps or lower house and the senate or upper house. they have to come to a consensus to pass legislation.
The tenure of office for a member of the Rajya Sabha, which is the upper house of India's Parliament, is six years. However, one-third of its members retire every two years, ensuring that the house is continuously refreshed with new representatives. Members can be re-elected for multiple terms.
There are two houses in Australia's federal Parliament: the House of Representatives (lower House) and the Senate (upper House). Each of the states also has two Houses of Parliament, except for Queensland, which has just one. The Territories also have one House of parliament.
The House of Lords is also referred to as the 'Upper House' or 'Upper Chamber' of the Houses of Parliament. Which is comprised of two 'Houses'. Firstly the House of Lords, and secondly the House of Commons, or 'Lower House' or 'Lower chamber', and of the Queen in Parliament. The House of Commons is the Democratically elected Chamber, the House of Lords comprises of hereditary and life peers.
The senate is the upper-house in the US Congress and has a total of 100 senators, 2 senators from each state.