What's The Difference Between The House & The Senate?

Civics 101

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🗓️ 30 August 2022

⏱️ 31 minutes

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And what does it mean to control one, the other, or both?

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0:00.0	President, without objection.
0:04.6	President, I call my amendment per the order.
0:07.6	The clerk will report the amendment.
0:09.8	The senator may come for a moment.
0:11.0	What is going on?
0:11.8	Why are you making me listen to this?
0:13.6	OK, this is from a YouTube video from 2009,
0:17.0	and it's called Senate chaos.
0:19.6	Senator Bernie Sanders from Vermont,
0:21.4	he's just proposed an amendment to a health care bill.
0:24.3	And as usually happens, he asks the amendment be considered
0:27.2	as red.
0:28.5	Since senators usually get these bills and amendments
0:30.8	in advance, there's no need to read them aloud.
0:33.3	The adaptation.
0:33.9	Object.
0:34.6	All right, right there.
0:35.6	Senator Tom Coburn from Oklahoma, a table of context.
0:40.0	The table of context, this act, is as follows.
0:43.4	The clerk has to read the whole thing.
0:46.6	And it's 767 pages.
0:51.1	All right, listen to this.
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