The Framers created a bicameral legislature to separate powers and make it difficult for the government to pass laws. The key differences between the House and Senate are their term lengths, size, roles in impeachment and treaty approval, and whether they are considered the lower or upper chamber. A Congressional district is a state's territorial division responsible for electing a House representative; districts are determined by population according to the census and may involve legislative and court approval in setting boundaries.

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1. Why did the Framers create a bicameral legislature?
The framers of the constitution created bicameral legislature in order to have a power in separation and
as a result make it harder for the government to do anything. The framers focus on the government
decisions and skills for tyrannizing the people. For controlling the action and decision of the government
the Framers created a bicameral legislature. As a result of this legislature it was very difficult for the
government to pass any law because in order to implement any law it has to pass from both the houses,
having different constitution and terms of different lengths.
2. What are the key differences between the House of Representatives and the Senate?
The Senate and the House of representatives are the two main legislatives bodies that lay the major role
in the United States Congress.
 The main difference between them is that the House of Representatives have two years of the
time length to serve whereas the Senate have six years of time length.
 The house of representatives is the lower house of the legislature of the united congress while the
senate is the upper chamber.
 The House of Representatives have 435 seats for voting and the Senate have hundred seats for
voting.
 The House focus on filing an impeachment process to an official through the voting and after
that the impeachment is taken to the senate for their approval. While the Senate work on
approving the foreign treaties, cabinet officials and the judicial officer’s nominations.
3. What is a Congressional district? How are districts determined?
Congressional district:
It is division of the state on the bases of the territory which is responsible for electing the United
States House of Representatives. The number of the legislatives that a state can send to the House of
Representatives based on the number of citizen that are living in the state. The process of electing the
representatives take place when the government divide the state geographically into congressional

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districts. The district citizen elect the politician that will serve them as their congressman and
congresswomen.
Determination of the District:
The determination of the district depend upon the population of the state. The number of the voters
for the congressional districts are determined by the United States census. The population and the
demographic information along with the legislative approval plays a major role in setting the
congressional boundaries for the districts. Some of the states uses the process of veto power, Supreme
Court’s approval, politician commission and the partisan commission approval for determine the
boundaries.
4. What is the difference between legislators acting as delegates and acting as trustees? Do you
think your legislators think of themselves as your delegates or as your trustee?
The delegates and the trustees both have a very different style of representation and the legislators
acting as any of them has a very different and the radical outcome on the people. Delegate is the
representative who would listen and focus on the constituent’s views and opinion them voice their
opinion in the legislative body they are part of. While the trustees listen to his constituents opinion
and ideas then and then make his own decision and act upon it. Delegates is more focus on
representation their constitution to the legislative body while the trustees listen to the constituent
opinion but make decision based on their personal judgment.
I believed that our legislators think of themselves as the delegates because they make decision based
on the constituent’s ideas and opinion rather their own personal judgment.
5. What is a Whip?
Whip is known as the official of the political party whose purpose is to ensure that the discipline is
maintain among the member of the party that lies in the legislature. They make sure that the member of
the party are present in the legislators voting session and vote according to their party platform rather

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than their individual ideology. They are considered to be the party enforcers who issued the voting
instruction to the legislators.
6. How did Lyndon Johnson transform the position of the Majority Leader in the Senate?
7. What is a Careerist and how did having more Careerists change Congress?
8. What is Pork Barrel Legislation and is this a good thing?
Pork Barrel Legislation is the political process that is used to provide funding to the local projects into
budgets. They projects may not be important but they pump the money and brought resources to the
local districts of the legislators. Pork Barrel is the metaphor term that is used by the legislative for the
control of the local appropriations. Although these project do not have any thing related to the billing
and would as a result benefit the legislator’s home district. Pork Barrel projects usually manage their
cost through different legislator’s pet project.
I believed that Pork Barrel is great process that would benefit the legislator’s home district by bring
money and resources to them. The congressmen uses this process as their winning tool because it
provide them with the opportunity to fight in the re-election. It also provide the executive branch with an
upper hand over the legislature in order to provide check and balance.
9. What is a Congressional Caucus?
Congressional Caucus are the group of the member of the united states that work for meeting the
common objectives and the goals. Caucuses formed an organization that is known as the congressional
member organization through the United States House of the Representatives and the Senate that govern
according to the rules set by these chamber. Caucus are consider to be informal in the senates as they do
not get any official recognition and the funding from their chambers. The members of the caucus held
meetings to discuss the interest which later on responsible for number of actions along with sponsoring
the meetings from other congress members
10. Why are Committees useful in Congress?

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The congress committees are known as the legislative sub-states congress that is responsible for certain
duties. They are known to be the main power if the congress as the committee chairman has the most
power. The committees are very useful in the congress because they consider, shape and pass the law
that govern the nation. Bills are started and end in the committees even if they are approved from the
law or not. Meeting for the group interest and the agency bureaucrats take place at the level of the
committees and the sub-committees. The committees are divided into the four types.
 Standing committee: They are responsible for considering and shaping most of the laws.
 Select committee: they are made for the specific reason that majorly focus on particular issues.
They do not draft the legislations.
 Joint committee: they served the same purpose as the select committee but are made up of both
the House of Representatives and the Senate members.
 Conference committee: they are formed for the special reason when the Senate and the House of
Representatives wanted to reconcile different version of the same bill.
11. How are people assigned to Committees in Congress?
The two main political parties in the House of Representatives and the senate in the congress assigned
their member to committees through a three stage process. In stage one the members at the start of the
new congress present their request to be assigned to the committee that they prefer. In stage two the
committee in charge used by the political party to give their recommendation for the assignment while in
the third stage each committee is made up of the members from different political parties who present
their slate to the full chamber for their approval. Although is the member of the committee decided to
give their resignation or is being assigned to the new committee have to notify the congress.
12. What is a filibuster and why does it give power to individual Senators?
Filibuster

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Filibuster is the political process or the senate rule in which the members of the parliament and the
congress debate over a proposed legislation in order to delay it or ensure that the decision cannot be
made on that specific proposal. It is also known as the process of taking bill to a death because it is
consider to be an obstacle in the legislation process or prevent any decision being brought to vote.
13. How does the Budget give Congress power?
The united state budget process is done through the Congressional Budget Act that was passed in 1974
which was created by the Congressional Budget Office that provide the congress with more power by
restricting the power of the president in the budget. The Act was passed during the Watergate scandal of
the administration because they do not want to infuriate the congress. Congress hold the sole power to
make the draft and pass the budget along the laws of land.
14. What factors help Congresspersons to decide on how to vote?
The congressperson vote based on the opinion of their party administration and the party’s ideology.
along with that other factors also had a very strong impact on the voting process that include the whip of
the party, members own personal judgment and most importantly the constitutional view that strongly
influence the congress person vote.
15. What is meant by Oversight and why is this an important function of Congress.
Oversight
It is the process of critically governing that is used by the top management, board of directors,
committee council that ensure the protection of relating information and the fundamental of the proper
operation program. It is the process of supervising the federal agencies, programs and implementation of
the policies. It is the oversight job to make sure that the duties assigned are been done in the right place.
Role of oversight in the Congress

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Oversight is an important function used by the congress keep the check and prevent frauds, money from
getting wasted and law from being abuse. Congress oversight committees protect the civil liberties,
complained the executives and evaluate their performance. The served to check that any sort of abuse is
being taken place in the government and ensured that the civil dignity is being maintained.