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Is the name given to congress because it has two houses

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This is because in the United States the word Congress is used as a descriptive term for the collective body of legislators, from both houses of its bicameral federal legislature: the Senate and the House of Representatives. ... Members of Congress in both houses are elected by direct popular vote.

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