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19 Mar, Wed, 10:29:16 Altavista: what is the us congress

according to Altavista, it is made up mainly of Aspartame.
This is either an example of why people use Google, or a deep and profound insight.

I am giddy with the responsibility of providing an authoritative definition.
The US Congress is a bicameral house.
(I encourage you to speak to the man on the street saying, "what do you think of bicameralism in the US Congress?")
It consists of the Senate and the House of Representatives.
They are... um... that is they are supposed to... erm...
Ok imagine a bunch of fat rich white men past the "retirement" age of 65,
except instead of retiring, they run the entire country.
Well, except there are the lobbyists.
Perhaps more accurately the Congress is tricameral: the House, the Senate, and the Lobbyists.
The lobbyists are also rich white men, the main difference being that they are very concerned that legislation might accidentally get passed that interferes with their accumulation of wealth. Oh wait, that's not actually all that different from the other two branches of congress.

Ok ok I could go on like this for quite a while but you may want to just go right on down to www.congress.gov and learn all about the exciting process yourself. posted by Richard at 12:20 / permalink (post) | permalink (numeric)