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http://www.awesomelibrary.org/Classroom/Social_Studies/Government/Legislative_Branch.html https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/us.html

//**Legislative body**// : //**Its job is to make laws and appropriate money**//  bicameral Congress consists of the Senate and the House of Representatives House of representatives- 435, two year terms House of Representatives - last held 4 November 2008 (next to be held in November 2010)
 * Numbers**: Senate-2 for every state, 1/3 are up for election at a time, 6 year terms
 * elections**: Senate - last held 4 November 2008 (next to be held November 2010);

//**Senate**// : Confirm or disapprove any treaties the President drafts. Confirm or disapprove the Presidential appointments, such as the Cabinet, officers, Supreme Court justices, and ambassadors. Holds a trial for a Government official who commits a crime against the country. leader is the vice president or in his absence the President Pro Tempore

//**House or Representatives:**// Start laws that make people pay taxes. Decide if a government official should be put on trial before the Senate if s/he commits a crime against the country. leader is the speaker of the house

//** Congress: **// A new Congress begins in January following Congressional elections. Congress meets once every year and usually lasts from January 3rd to July 31st, but in special cases, a session can last longer

//**Powers of congress**//: power to appropriate funds exclusive power to declare war, to raise and maintain the armed forces, and to make rules for the military establish post offices and post roads establish courts inferior to the Supreme Court To make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into execution the foregoing powers, and all other powers vested by this Constitution in the government of the United States, or in any department or officer thereof. Also has the power to admit new states to the Union