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The Legislative Branch of the Federal Government is embodied in the form of the United States Congress, which consists of the House of Representatives and the Senate. 

The Legislative branch makes laws, declares war, regulates interstate and international commerce, and is in charge of taxing and spending policy.

In the future we plan to include sections we call SIDE BAR ISSUES. They would be sections that help readers better understand things like earmarks, filibusters and cloture. 

The Fiscal Year 2022 budget for the Legislative Branch is $5.924B

The Senate was established to ensure that there was one house in Congress that gave equal weight to the small states as to the large states. Each state has two senators. Senators are elected to 6-year terms, with approximately one-third of the  Senate up for re-election every two years.

The Senate has responsibility for conducting impeachment trials, providing advice and consent to the president on treaties, and approving Presidential appointments that require consent, such as Supreme Court Justices and Cabinet department heads.

The House of Representatives is composed of 435 members who represent  the people of their Congressional Districts. These districts are allocated according to population, derived from US Census data. According to the Congressional Research Service, the average population of a Congressional District, based on the 2020 census is 761,169 individuals. Each state is guaranteed at least one Representative regardless of the population. Seven states have only one Representative; Alaska, Delaware, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Vermont, and Wyoming.

The House is exclusively responsible for introducing revenue bills and initiating impeachments. The House also has the power to choose the President in the event of a tie in Electoral College votes.

List all committees, along with members, leadership, and major functions/activities/purpose

This is a planned future enhancement to the site

Abstracts of everything in the act, author/co-author, sponsors, include Pros and Cons, stated purpose of the legislation, for each part provide very brief explanation, associated costs, budget impact by year, date each section will take effect and end if available, breakout parts by related, marginally related, not related to stated purpose of act (i.e. Related to Infrastructure, marginally related to infrastructure, Not related to infrastructure)

Future build will include table showing vote of each member of Congress on bill

This is a planned future enhancement to the site

List all members of Congress. indicate name, birth date, elected into office date, Net worth, party, district, population, brief geographic description (ie. northeast Queens), committees, legislation authored, legislation supported, table showing the person's vote on all pieces of legislation from beginning of term

Some of these features are built, many will be included in future enhancements to the site