How does the government in the US work in simple terms?

Question

What do Senitors do? What do Congressmen do? What is the title of people who serve in the house of representatives? Do Senitors vote on State issues or federal issues or both? Do congressmen vote on state issues or federal issues or both? Does the house of representatives vote on state issues or federal issues or both?

(I never understood how this stuff all works when they explained it in school.)

Answer 1

Download the US constitution. It explains all those things in detail.

To Answer your questions,  There are two houses that make up the US Congress, they are the Senate and The House of representatives. Senators and Congressmen(the Congress) write federal bills. These bills need to be signed by the president in order to become law. If the president vetoes the bill, the Congress must override the veto with a 60% majority in order to pass the bill into law.

The people who work in the house of representatives are called Congressmen. However, the Congress has two parts, the house of representatives and the senate. Senators work in the senate. There are 100 Senators, two from each state. There are over 400 Congressman, each represents a congressional district of the same population. So the bigger states have more Congressmen.

All of them are part of the federal government and only write federal laws.

Individual states have their own state legislature and govenors that pass state laws. Citys have councils and mayors to pass their laws.

If you go to this website, they will send you a free copy of the US constitution. http://www.heritage.org/  You can also download it by googling US constitution.

Answer 2

It is simple really: We have a house of REPs called Congressmen and we have a house called the Senate. Both combined are known as Congress. Each of these houses contain elected folks from our state. Each house votes on an issue and each house must both pass legislation on an issue before it is presented to congress. Congress must then vote on it. It needs 2/3rd majority of states to be ratified. Then the bill(issue) if ratified goes to the president for approval or veto.The president has to detirmine the best path forward for any given situation. The president can issue an executive order to get stuff going but usually asked the congress to OK it before proceeding. Everyone has a say in this Government of the people for the people and by the people.