What would be super helpful is if someone put together a primer on what parts of the West Wing are factually accurate and what parts are fiction, because at this point, 95% of what I know about politics comes from the show. There's also the 5% that came from the Canadian politics class I took last year. I saw only 5% because in that class I
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Two of our founding fathers, Jefferson and Washington, were talking about the Senate and House, and Washington made the analogy of pouring tea into a saucer to cool it. The Senate is the saucer.
On the West Wing that may have worked against them because the Senate was more Republican--often the Senate goes to the other party after a President gets elected--but it can work the other way, too. Right now, for instance, the House of Representatives voted to repeal the universal health care law. The Senate's probably going to shoot that down, though, so it'll fail because both houses have to approve bills for it to go to the President.
ANYWAY.
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And the House of Representatives have 2 year terms. They have to run again every other year, but incumbency confers a lot of advantages.
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Representatives and Delegates serve for two-year terms, while the Resident Commissioner serves for four years.
I'm not sure who the "Resident Commissioner" is?
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You learn something new every day!
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The More You Know. ~~~~~~~>*
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