The House of Representatives represents the population at large. The Senate Represents regional interests but as shown by the current stand off between the House and Senate, the Senate most definitely does not control everything no matter what the Senate Majority Leader may think. The power of our system of government has always been the fact that neither house has control making compromise between individual and regional interests essential. The problem is compromise has disappeared from the political discourse. It is compromise that must be restored if the republic is to survive. If either individual or regional interests are allowed to dominate would inevitably result in tyranny and probable dissolution of the nation into smaller nation states.
If we knew what it was we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
