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...

Comments

Re: two parties

[rahaeli.livejournal.com]

Oh, no, we absolutely have two parties. One wants your wallet, the other wants your civil liberties :P

Re: two parties

[wolfieboy.livejournal.com]

It used to be that I could figure out which one you meant by each of those. But I could make a case for either of them being either now.
This all really hit home when the Republicans started extolling the virtues of deficit spending while the Democrats were crying for the need to be fiscally conservative.

Re: two parties

[rahaeli.livejournal.com]

I didn't say they were always the same party!