U.S. House of Representatives | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-03

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U.S. House of Representatives


00:01:49 1 History
00:08:16 2 Membership, qualifications and apportionment
00:08:27 2.1 Apportionments
00:10:10 2.2 Redistricting
00:12:00 2.3 Qualifications
00:13:27 2.4 Elections
00:16:29 2.5 Non-voting delegates
00:16:57 2.6 Terms
00:18:10 3 Comparison to the Senate
00:19:10 4 Salary and benefits
00:19:19 4.1 Salaries
00:20:25 4.2 Titles
00:20:50 4.3 Pension
00:22:11 4.4 Tax deductions
00:22:30 4.5 Health benefits
00:24:59 4.6 Personnel, mail and office expenses
00:26:21 4.7 Travel allowance
00:26:40 5 Officers
00:26:49 5.1 Member officials
00:30:34 5.1.1 Leadership and partisanship
00:31:31 5.2 Non-member officials
00:33:11 6 Procedure
00:33:20 6.1 Daily procedures
00:37:11 6.2 Passage of legislation
00:40:37 7 Committees
00:45:07 8 Legislative functions
00:46:57 9 Checks and balances
00:49:26 10 Latest election results and current party standings
00:49:37 10.1 Current standing
00:49:46 10.2 End of previous Congress



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The United States House of Representatives is the lower chamber of the United States Congress, the Senate being the upper chamber. Together they comprise the legislature of the United States.
The composition of the House is established by Article One of the United States Constitution. The House is composed of Representatives who sit in congressional districts that are allocated to each of the 50 states on a basis of population as measured by the U.S. Census, with each district entitled to one representative. Since its inception in 1789, all Representatives have been directly elected. The total number of voting representatives is fixed by law at 435. As of the 2010 Census, the largest delegation is that of California, with fifty-three representatives. Seven states have the smallest delegation possible, a single representative: Alaska, Delaware, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Vermont, and Wyoming.The House is charged with the passage of federal legislation, known as bills, which, after concurrence by the Senate, are sent to the President for consideration. In addition to this basic power, the House has certain exclusive powers which include the power to initiate all bills related to revenue, the impeachment of federal officers, who are sent to trial before the Senate, and in cases wherein no candidate receives a majority of electors for President, the duty falls upon the House to elect one of the top three recipients of electors for that office, with one vote given to each state for that purpose.The presiding officer is the Speaker of the House, who is elected by the members thereof and is therefore traditionally the leader of the controlling party. The Speaker and other floor leaders are chosen by the Democratic Caucus or the Republican Conference, depending on whichever party has more voting members. The House meets in the south wing of the United States Capitol.