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Congress is in the Legislative Branch of the federal government.


Congress includes the Senate
and the House of Representatives.
Click here for a picture of the U.S. Capitol Building to print out and color!

Click here to read the text of the United States Constitution! The Constitution gives Congress
the power to make laws.

House and Senate committees
hold hearings and vote on
bills, or proposed laws.

This is what a committee
report looks like:
Click here to see the text of a House Committee report!
If a bill is approved by the House
and Senate and signed by the
President, it becomes a law.

A law looks like this:
Click here to see the text of a public law!