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To: Condor who wrote (2332)	11/5/2002 8:18:34 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) of 6901

I believe I understand the House of Representatives and the Senate but where and how does the Congress fit in? Say what, C? The House and the Senate are the Congress. Someone ( Hawkmoon ) gave a URL that described the flow on how a bill became law To give the ultimate simplification: Any bill has to pass first the House, then the Senate, and then the President has to sign it, to become Federal law. If either house of Congress fails to pass it, or the President vetoes it and the veto is not overridden, then it doesn't. Does that answer your question? The House of Representatives, where every Congressman must be reelected every two years, was designed to be the most responsive institutuion to the people. But it's been so completely gerrymandered in favor of the incumbents that only about 15 seats out of 435 are actually up for grabs in any serious fashion in this election. The one-third of the Senate seats that are up for reelection (Senators serve for 6 years) are actually much more contested as nobody has yet figured out how to gerrymander a state.

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