The candidate who gets a majority of the votes wins. There are 100 U.S. Senators in the Congress. Each of the 50 states gets two Senators, no matter how many people live in the state. When the Senate is in session, she spends the weekdays in Washington and often comes home to California on the weekends. When the Senate is not in session, she often spends her time in California meeting with people from around the state.
Senators are responsible for representing the people of their state in the United States Senate.
Part of this responsibility is writing and voting on bills in the U.S. Senate. Senators decide whether to vote for or against every bill that comes before Congress. All bills must pass the Senate before they can go to the President to be signed into law. Senators can also write their own bills and work to get the other Senators to vote for their bill so that it can become law. In order to do their job well, Senators spend a lot of time meeting with people who live in their state to tell them about what is happening in government and to listen to their ideas about how to improve life in our country.