Any USA experts care to enlighten me?

[andrewducker]

What's the difference between the Senate and the House of Representatives?

This West Wing watcher would like to feel slightly less confused about how your government works...

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[josephgrossberg.livejournal.com]

Total Senators: 100 (50 states x 2)
Total Representatives: 438
Total Congressmen: 538

These three numbers don't change, but the distribution of reps. is redetermined every time we do a census.

Also, these correspond to the number of electoral votes. A state's electoral value is equal to the number of senators (always 2) plus the number of reps (Wyoming has 1; California has 53).

Washington, DC counts as 3 electoral votes, even though they don't have any senators or reps. But that is another discussion entirely.