Members of Congress have been elected to represent their constituents, or people living in the district that has elected them.
Each member of congress is elected by the people of his/her state. Each member of congress is elected by the people of his/her state.
A congress member's constituents are the people he or she is elected to represent. They share a similar location as they all live in the congress member's home district.
Members of the U. S. Congress are publicly elected by the registered voters of the areas they represent. Every Senator and seven members of the House of Representatives each represents a whole state. Every other voting member of the House represents a district within a state. U. S. House members have been publicly elected since 1789. U. S. Senators have been publicly elected since 1913.
A member of congress is elected for two years; a senator is elected for six years.
All 435 members of the House of Representatives are elected. Each member represents a congressional district and is elected by the voters in that district.
No, constituents is a name used to describe the people who live and vote in a Congressman's political district. These are the people who elected him to office, and can either vote to reelect him to that position or vote him out, giving another representative the opportunity to represent them.
The Senator represents the entire state the Representative is elected in the district they live in.
Congress is made up of the Senate and the House of Representatives, whose members are elected by the citizens of the state they are running for office in, so they are elected by the people of their state.
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The area represented by a member of the House of Representatives is called a congressional district. Congressional districts are based on population.
Congress members try to get these projects because those are government projects and grants that primarily benefit the home district or state.