The House of Representatives and Senate Compared

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Mr. Beat and Mr. Wernimont compare and contrast the two parts of the United States Congress- the House of Representatives and the Senate. Produced by Beat Productions, LLC and Matt Beat. All images and video by Matt Beat, used under fair use guidelines, or found in the public domain. Music by @ElectricNeedleRoom (Mr. Beat's band), Gunnar Olsen, and Otis McDonald. Here's an annotated script with footnotes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1nz8PP6CcYylDM_pKZwTDa8mJVtJWo1JVYHKylehokBo/edit?usp=sharing Sources/further reading: https://history.house.gov/ https://www.senate.gov/ Related videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apW7KLCRCos&t https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxNCtu03-MU&t https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mrw0gGlHVQ Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmYesELO6axBrCuSpf7S9DQ/join For business inquiries or to send snail mail to Mr. Beat: https://www.iammrbeat.com/contact.html https://www.youtube.com/c/iammrbeat/about How to support and donate to my channel: Subscribe to @iammrbeat & hit the notification bell 🔔 Join for great perks on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/iammrbeat Donate to Mr. Beat on Paypal: https://www.paypal.me/mrbeat Buy Mr. Beat a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/iammrbeat Cameo: https://www.cameo.com/iammrbeat Subscribe to my second channel: The Beat Goes On Patreon for The Beat Goes On: https://www.patreon.com/thebeatgoeson Connect with me: Links: https://linktr.ee/iammrbeat Website: https://www.iammrbeat.com/ Podcast: https://anchor.fm/thebeatpod Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/mrbeat/ @beatmastermatt on Twitter: https://twitter.com/beatmastermatt Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/iammrbeat/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/iammrbeat Beatcord: https://discord.gg/g8cZPjt TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@iammrbeat Merch: https://matt-beat-shop.fourthwall.com/ https://www.bonfire.com/store/mr-beat/ https://sfsf.shop/support-mrbeat/ https://amzn.to/3fdakiZ Affiliate Links: Useful Charts: https://usefulcharts.com/?aff=12 Fourthwall: https://link.fourthwall.com/MrBeat StreamYard: https://streamyard.com/pal/d/5272340869152768 #apgovt #government #usgovernment Chapters: 0:00 Introduction 2:46 Who is in there? 8:34 How they pass laws? 11:05 Procedural stuff 12:18 Exclusive responsibilities 14:55 Impact and Legacy The United States Congress makes laws at the federal level. It’s the legislature of the federal government of the country. They meet in this cute little building, the U.S. Capitol. Members are directly elected by citizens in their home parts of the country. But did you know that Congress was bi? Bicameral, which means it’s separated into two groups, and those two groups, are the House of Representatives and the Senate At the Constitutional Convention in 1787, one big debate broke out between delegates of states with larger populations and delegates of states with smaller populations. The debate was over how many representatives each state would have in Congress. Delegates from larger population states argued that, since their states contributed proportionally more in taxes and resources, they should enjoy proportionally much more representation in Congress. Delegates from smaller states argued that, since they were afraid of having their voices ignored, all states should be equally represented in Congress. Thankfully, Founding Father Dudes Roger Sherman and Oliver Ellsworth came to the rescue. They created what today is commonly referred to as The Great Compromise, and it called for a bicameral federal legislature- an upper house to provide equal representation for each state, and a lower house to provide proportional representation based on a state’s population. On July 4, 1787 others at the convention got on board…I’m not joking…it was on that day that many of the delegates came around to Sherman and Ellsworth’s idea, and on July 16th the delegates officially adopted it…by a margin of one, single vote. Without that vote, there probably wouldn’t be a Constitution today. So that’s why there are two houses of Congress. But both are quite different. In this video, I’m going to compare the House to the Senate, with the help of my friend and fellow teacher Mr. Wernimont.