Member of Congress
A Member of Congress (MOC) is a person who has been appointed or elected and inducted into an official body called a congress, typically to represent a particular constituency in a legislature. The term member of parliament (MP) is an equivalent term in other, unaffiliated jurisdictions. United States. In referring to an individual lawmaker in their capacity of serving in the United States Congress, a bicameral legislature, the term "Member of Congress" is used less often than other terms in the United States. This is because in the United States the word "Congress" is used as a  descriptive term for the collective body of legislators, from both houses of its bicameral federal legislature: the Senate and the House of Representatives. For this reason, and in order to distinguish who is a member of which house, a member of the Senate is typically referred to as Senator (followed by from ), and a member of the House of Representatives is usually referred to as Congressman or Congresswoman (followed by from the district of ), or Representative ( from the district of ). Although Senators are members of Congress, they are not normally referred to or addressed as "Congressmen" or "Congresswomen" or "Congresspeople