What do representatives do?

Answer 1

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.

Answer 2

Men and women who write law are called senators and representatives. Every state send two senators to work in the Senate. States with many people send many representatives to work in the House of Representatives. The senators and representatives meet a building called the Capitol.

Answer 3

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.

Answer 4

Congress is a mixture of two houses of government: the Senate and the House of Representatives.

Every state is allowed two senators to represent them in the Senate. This was done to appease the smaller states that have a lower population.

The number of representatives in the House depends on their state's population. This was to appease the bigger states.

Answer 5

A rep. is an elected person that shares a town/state's opinion with congress. People elect reps that they think will be able to voice the town/state's opinion well.

Sorry, this isn't the best answer. I am only a sixth grader, after all . . .

Answer 6

The Senate and the House of Representatives do the same basic things: write legislation, debate it and either approve or disapprove it, and debate and vote on legislation that originated in the other house.

The differences between the Senate and the House:

1. The membership of the House is determined by population, and states can gain or lose Representatives in accordance with population shifts. (In other words, if a lot of people move from Ohio to Tennessee, Ohio could lose seats to Tennessee. This doesn't necessarily have to happen, but it can.) Each state has two, and only two, senators--giving each state equal representation in this body. (This was called the Connecticut Compromise or the Great Compromise. When the Constitution was being written, Congress was originally going to have one house. Large states like Virginia thought states should send people to it according to their population, which makes sense: the more people your state has, the more influence it should have over legislation. Small states like Maine felt the states should send equal numbers of people to the house, which makes sense too: if Virginia sends twenty votes to the house and Maine sends one, Virginia would get everything it wanted and Maine would get the scraps--and when it comes to government spending there never are scraps. So, the Great Compromise: there would be two houses. One would be staffed according to population, so Virginia would have more representatives than Maine. The other would have two representatives, which we call Senators, from every state. And the Senate is considered more powerful.)

2. The Senate considers and approves appointments. The president appoints his cabinet, judges, ambassadors and "flag" officers (generals and admirals), and all of them have to be approved by the Senate before they can take office.

3. If an official has to be impeached, the House acts as sort of a grand jury, deciding whether the official should be tried; the Senate is the court that decides whether the official should be removed from office.

4. Debating rules are different in the two bodies. In the House, one member cannot shut down the whole chamber. If you watch C-SPAN, you'll see members given the floor for a certain number of minutes. This is routine: in the House, debate is supposed to be quick and certain, and they work to keep it that way. In the Senate, a member can hold the floor as long as he wants.

Answer 7

represenatives are elected by the people of your state to represenate your state in the the government

Answer 8

The members of Congress make laws. A law starts out as a bill and goes through the legislative process of becoming a law.