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The '''United States Congress''' is the [[legislature]] of the [[federal government of the United States]]. It is [[Bicameralism|bicameral]], composed of a lower body, the [[United States House of Representatives]], and an upper body, the [[United States Senate]]. It meets in the [[United States Capitol]] in [[Washington, D.C.]] Members are chosen through [[direct election]],{{efn|name="17A"|Before the ratification of the [[Seventeenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution]] in 1913, senators were chosen by state legislatures.}} though vacancies in the Senate may be filled by a [[Governor (United States)|governor]]'s appointment. Congress{{efn|name="Style"|Congress does not take a [[Article (grammar)|grammatical article]], except when referring to a specific session of Congress.<ref name="Garner_Page_203">{{cite book |last1=Garner |first1=Bryan A. |author-link1=Bryan A. Garner |title=Garner's Dictionary of Legal Usage |date=2011 |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=Oxford |isbn=9780195384208 |page=203 |edition=3rd |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=O1m1bI5vCooC&pg=PA203 |access-date=October 22, 2023}}</ref> }} has 535 voting members: 100 senators and 435 representatives. The [[vice president of the United States]], as President of the Senate, has a vote in the Senate only when there is a tie. The House of Representatives has six [[Non-voting members of the United States House of Representatives|non-voting members]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/R/R45583|title=Membership of the 116th Congress: A Profile|page=4|website=[[Congressional Research Service]]|access-date=5 March 2020|quote=Congress is composed of 541 individuals from the 50 states, the District of Columbia, Guam, the U.S. Virgin Islands, American Samoa, the Northern Mariana Islands, and Puerto Rico.|archive-date=January 14, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210114214342/https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/R/R45583|url-status=live}}</ref> | The '''United States Congress''' is the [[legislature]] of the [[federal government of the United States]]. It is [[Bicameralism|bicameral]], composed of a lower body, the [[United States House of Representatives]], and an upper body, the [[United States Senate]]. It meets in the [[United States Capitol]] in [[Washington, D.C.]] Members are chosen through [[direct election]],{{efn|name="17A"|Before the ratification of the [[Seventeenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution]] in 1913, senators were chosen by state legislatures.}} though vacancies in the Senate may be filled by a [[Governor (United States)|governor]]'s appointment. Congress{{efn|name="Style"|Congress does not take a [[Article (grammar)|grammatical article]], except when referring to a specific session of Congress.<ref name="Garner_Page_203">{{cite book |last1=Garner |first1=Bryan A. |author-link1=Bryan A. Garner |title=Garner's Dictionary of Legal Usage |date=2011 |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=Oxford |isbn=9780195384208 |page=203 |edition=3rd |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=O1m1bI5vCooC&pg=PA203 |access-date=October 22, 2023}}</ref> }} has 535 voting members: 100 senators and 435 representatives. The [[vice president of the United States]], as President of the Senate, has a vote in the Senate only when there is a tie. The House of Representatives has six [[Non-voting members of the United States House of Representatives|non-voting members]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/R/R45583|title=Membership of the 116th Congress: A Profile|page=4|website=[[Congressional Research Service]]|access-date=5 March 2020|quote=Congress is composed of 541 individuals from the 50 states, the District of Columbia, Guam, the U.S. Virgin Islands, American Samoa, the Northern Mariana Islands, and Puerto Rico.|archive-date=January 14, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210114214342/https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/R/R45583|url-status=live}}</ref> | ||