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Republicans - 213 to 222

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1. End Vax for travelers

2. Social media -  Banning tic tok

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- 535 voting members
- 100 senators
- 435 representatives

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1. Joe Neguse (Democratic)

2. Lauren Boebert (Republican)

3. Ken Buck (Republican)

4. Doug Lamborn (Republican)

5. Jason Crow  (Democratic)

6. Brittany Petterson  (Democratic)

7. Yadira Caraveo (Democratic)

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set number of 100 members in total, 2 for each state

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435 representatives are currently in the House, all with full voting rights.

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Democratic - 49 to 51

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Jason Crow and has been in office in 4

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1. Thomas Massie, to keep families together and to stop separating them from each other

2. Mark Warner,  how tic tok is the issue and it could get the Chinese involved and make more communist

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- at least 30 years old
- minimum of 9 years of citizenship
- resident of state at the time they are elected

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- must be 25 years old
- U.S. citizens for a minimum of 7 years
- a resident in the state they are representing

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Democrats, Republicans, & Independents in House/Senate 

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Democrats, Republicans, & Independents in House/Senate 

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- Seven new senator - 2 democrats - 5 republicans
- 74 new representatives - 34 democrats - 40 Republican
- now delegate - republican

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- 2 year terms
- get re-elected every even year
- may serve a consecutive of 4 total terms

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1. all money bills start here (taxes, spending money)
2. impeach public officials
3. If a president doesn't receive enough electoral votes, then the House picks who the next president is

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- serve for 6 terms
- every 2 years face re election or election for ⅓ of the senators

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1. He stands behind gun prevention and putting acts in to prevent it and help people become more safe. That he says that we don't have to choose between the second amendment and safer communities. I agree with what he says and protection of people.

2. He also talks about the working class and how he has been working since he was a teen and taking part in lowering costs for coloradans and how they hurt working families. He is trying his best to address supply chain issues and also bringing down cost of prices.

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Seats are determined based off a state's population size. Every 10 years the population is recounted, leading to a possible change in a state's seat size.

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- 128 out of 440 are female in the house
- 25 out of 100 are female in senate

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- acts as jury in impeachment trials
- agree or disagree with any treaties president makes
- whoever president commends for positions such as ambassadors, cabinet officers, the senator is able to approve or deny ( approve higher officials)
- allowed to hold trial for government officials when something bad is done

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- even years ⅓ of the Senate gets elected whenever there isn’t a presidential election
- rather then having all 100 seats up all at once, every states senators get split into different ones
- consist of 3 different classes; class 1 & 2 contain 33 seats while the 3rd class has 34
- Class 1 next election Jan. 3,2025; Class 2 Jan.2, 2027; Class 3 Jan. 3, 2029

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1. Micheal F. Bennett (Democratic)  14 years
2. John W Hickenlooper (Democratic)  2 years

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1. since 1789 its the only branch of the government that has been directly elected by american voters
2. salary of $40,242 annually
3. Colorado has 8 representatives as the most recent members are Brittany Petterson & Yadira Caraveo elected in 2023
4. almost all representatives have advanced college degrees along with working in the fields of  business or education, bankers or even lawyers

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Speaker of the House:  Kevin McCarthy
House Majority Leader:  Steve Scalise
House Minority Leader:   Hakeem S. Jeffries
President Pro Tempore: Patty Murray
Senate Majority Leader: Charles E. Schumer
Senate Minority Leader: Mitch McConnell

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- currently salary is $43,977
- “upper” house
- 1922 Rebecca Felton as the 1st women senator for Georgia
- no term limits as Robert C. Boyd was the longest, serving 56 years in 2009

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133 members identify has a different ethnicity than white.

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1. Betty McCollum, it puts americans at risk and increases chances of variants.

2. Tic Tok, it is an export of US culture and it can disrupt that to many americans.

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It will cause him to more backed into a corner by people who don’t agree with his views

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Education- He is a former superintendent so he finds a special place to make things happen for schools. He understands the importance of high quality schools. As he says they fail the students to prepare us for the 21st economy and how it works. He believes in making decisions based on the interests of the students and making it more flexible for the teachers. Making students needs above the state. He was determined to make students a priority that he made state and local communities have more power.

Money- He also says that americans are promised if we work hard we can get ahead or anywhere we want to go but he thinks that it has eroded many of our minds to be overworked. Working middle class can never keep up with the cost of housing and and higher education for and childcare. A lot of people have not benefited from the economic growth. Micheal fights for every economic growth for the people.

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Most americans identify as christian and now a days their are a lot of percentage who have no affiliation with religion

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I think if it did get banned it would benefit the fast pase of what our social media has become from one thing being popular one second and not another second. It would decrease phone use maybe but will it ever get banned probably not.

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Colorado New District (8) & Party Represented 

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Colorado New District (8) & Party Represented 

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Yadira Caraveo - democratic

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Equal opportunity- He wants to ensure that every kid has equal opportunity and not based on where you come from you deserve to have economic success. He has thinks that having high quality education and having everyone not based on your wealth should determined how successful you become. He thinks that education is a social equalizer and creates economic success by gaining more people who can attain a better education.

Education- He also wants to make sure that while you are having great education you are safe wherever you do so. He wants to pass a common-sense gun law to keep communities safe. He is also a co-sponsor on the Background check expansion Act to keep people who want guns to be able to be checked to keep more guns out of unsafe hands. He also supports banning assault weapons.

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Congress becoming more demographically similar to U.S. population ?

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Congress becoming more demographically similar to U.S. population ?

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Yes they are increasing but I wouldn’t say it is close the same as the United States because the fact that their is more whites in congress than in the united states also their is less women in congress than the United states.

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Jason Crow - Democratic

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Republicans won by 1%

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Micheal Bennett - Democratic