okay...I want to know...are ALL congressional seats up for re-election???

[greenbriar]

I thought they were staggered like the senate.

It is late and I am tired. Give me some luv

[Carrion]

1. Yes

[TSIAS]

2. Yes

All 435 Representatives are technically up for re-election. Of course, no more than 30 will probably be truly competitive.

33 or 34 Senate seats are up for grabs. They are staggered.

[greenbriar]

3. wow, for some reason, I thought

that congress was staggered as well.

I knew the senate was


I never realized the house was

[kiahzero]

5. How would it be staggered?

Elections every year?

[TSIAS]

6. Members of the House serve 2 year terms

Compared to 6 year terms for Senators.

[troublemaker]

4. Every blessed one every two years

[Gore1FL]

7. From the "Horses Mouth"

Article I

Section 1. All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives.

Section 2. The House of Representatives shall be composed of Members chosen every second Year by the People of the several States, and the Electors in each State shall have the Qualifications requisite for Electors of the most numerous Branch of the State Legislature.

No Person shall be a Representative who shall not have attained to the age of twenty five Years, and been seven Years a Citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected, be an Inhabitant of that State in which he shall be chosen.

[OneBlueSky]

8. they (we?) should really do something about those 2-year terms . . .

as soon as a Congresscritter gets into office, s/he has to begin raising funds for re-election (and to pay off whatever campaign debts they may still have) . . . doesn't leave much time or psychic space for the more mundane things like, say, legislating . . . leads to things like the Patriot Act which, I would wager, not a single Member read before voting on it . . . they should have at least four-year terms . . . we could stagger them, electing half the House every two years . . . at least they'd have SOME time for actual work . . .

or, we could move to public financing of federal elections . . . take the money out of politics, and we'll very likely have better government . . .

[Feanorcurufinwe]

9. We should expand the size of the House so it is more representative

[izzie]

10. I do think NH has a larger number.

When I lived in that state the joke was you had a state rep. on every corner.They also got very little pay. I think we should run some for the House that would cut pay since they all seem to leave the place with millions.Need more people to run and clean up all this mess. So much money in Congress they can not help them selfs.

[Feanorcurufinwe]

11. 'State rep' means the state legislature. I'm talking about the

House of Representatives.

[dryan]

12. It's all in the US constitution...

[Feanorcurufinwe]

13. Yeah, Duh, and in the constitution New Hampshire doesn't get extra

why don't you try reading the posts you respond to?

[dryan]

15. Sorry you got up from the wrong side of the bed honey....

but a lot of these type questions are answered easily by reading the US Constitution.

[Feanorcurufinwe]

16. Despite your misreading of my posts

I know the constitution very well. And the post I was responding to, that said


I do think NH has a larger number.

When I lived in that state the joke was you had a state rep. on every corner.They also got very little pay. I think we should run some for the House that would cut pay since they all seem to leave the place with millions.Need more people to run and clean up all this mess. So much money in Congress they can not help them selfs.

is clearly confusing state representatives with the US House of Representatives.

U.S. Constitution

[Walt Starr]

14. Constitutionally, the entire Congress is up for grabs every 2 years

In actual practice, maybe 10% of the seats are actually competitive.

Even less are projected to be competitive this year.

[tom_paine]

17. Yes, but Extreme Gerrymandering, pioneered by the Busheviks

has rendered most seat as safe as being Stalin's Pal on the Soviet Duma in 1938.