United States Congress is a legislature of the Federal Government of the USA. Authorities hereof are determined by US Constitution. The Congress consists of two houses, the Senate and the House of Representatives. It meets in the Capitol in Washington
The House of Representatives has 435 voting members, each of them representing his/her own district and serves a two-year term. House seats are apportioned among the states by population.
The Senate consists of 100 members serving six-year terms. Each state has two senators regardless of population. Every two years, approximately one-third of the Senate is re-elected.
The Congress has authority to:
lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts and excises, to pay the debts, and provide for the common defense and general welfare of the United States; at that, all duties, imposts and excises shall be uniform all over the USA;
to exercise exclusive legislation in all cases whatsoever over such district (not exceeding ten miles square) as may, by cession of particular states, and the acceptance of Congress, become the seat of the government of the United States, and to exercise like authority over all places purchased by the consent of the legislature of the state in which the same shall be, for the erection of forts, magazines, arsenals, dockyards and other needful buildings;
to make all laws, which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into execution the foregoing powers, and all other powers, vested by this Constitution in the government of the United States, or in any department or officer thereof.
coin money, regulate the value hereof, and of foreign coin,
fix standards of weights and measures;
to provide for the punishment of counterfeiting the securities and current coin of the United States;
to establish post offices and post roads;
to promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their writings and discoveries;
to constitute courts, inferior to the Supreme Court;