What is the main purpose of the U.S House of Representatives?

Question

Like what does the House of Representatives do in the U.S.

Answer 1

Like, they're there to balance out the Senate n' stuff.

Answer 2

The roles of the House of Representative are detailed in the Constitution.


http://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/constitution.overview.html

Answer 3

All taxation bills have to originate there, and it is closer to the public in opinion since the whole House is reelected every 2 years.

It is to keep the Senate from getting too uppity.

Answer 4

Right now it seems to be making a pinyata out of the Bush administration. Since they can't impeach him, they are devoting all their efforts to beat his administration to death with a thousand little investigations and bills he can't sign without compromise. Who cares about the nation or its serious problems? Bush must be beaten down and rendered impotent, whatever it costs the country. Go dems; way to take the country in a new direction.
Straight to hades in a hand basket.

Answer 5

Section. 8.

The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;

To borrow Money on the credit of the United States;

To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes;

To establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization, and uniform Laws on the subject of Bankruptcies throughout the United States;

To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standard 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 respective Writings and Discoveries;

To constitute Tribunals inferior to the supreme Court;

To define and punish Piracies and Felonies committed on the high Seas, and Offences against the Law of Nations;

To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water;

To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years;

To provide and maintain a Navy;

To make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces;

To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions;

To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States, reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment of the Officers, and the Authority of training the Militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress;

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, dock-Yards, and other needful Buildings;--And

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.

They also have the power to Impeach!

Answer 6

It was to closely represent the people on an equal basis. Now, it is to get reelected.

Answer 7

Currently they get rich, help the big money donors who got them elected get rich, steal our money and waste a lot of it and then they finally spend our money getting re-elected, so the whole cycle begins again.

Currently they do nothing of benefit to the USA.