What are the Senate, Chamber and Legislative Assemblies for?

Senate

The Senate is considered the Upper Chamber of the Federal Legislative Power, making up the National Congress together with the Chamber of Deputies. Also with the status of a reviewing House, in the Senate the terms are 8 years.

According to the Constitution, the Senate represents the States (including the Federal District) and each of them must always elect 3 senators, regardless of the size of their population. It is therefore made up of 81 senators.

But, despite the senator's term of office being 8 years, electoral processes take place every 4 years. This is because renewals occur alternately by 2/3 (as it was in 2018) or 1/3 (as it will be now).

Even though it comprises the National Congress together with the Chamber, the Senate has so-called private responsibilities: the most notable are those that concern the proceedings against presidents of the Republic or ministers of State.

Furthermore, the Senate is also responsible for approval of names nominated to the Federal Supreme Court (STF), the appointment of the Attorney General of the Republic and the presidents and directors of the Central Bank (BC).

In the economic area, it is up to the Senate authorize external financial operations of the Union, States and municipalities; set global limits on the amount of consolidated debt of entities; deal with limits on the granting of Union guarantees in external and internal credit operations; is determine global limits on the amount of securities debt of states and municipalitiessystem. (The Senate Agency)

• How does the Senate work? (Politicize!)
• Elections 2022: find out what a senator does (Agency Brazil)

Câmara dos Deputados

The Chamber of Deputies is one of the houses that make up the Legislative Branch in Brazil, operating at the federal level. She is occupied by 513 federal deputies elected by the population. The distribution of vacancies is determined by the population of each Brazilian state and the Federal District.

The function of the Chamber of Deputies is the same as that of its occupants, the federal deputies: legislate, supervise the Executive and represent the population.

Therefore, among its responsibilities, the following are worth highlighting:

• the creation of bills;
• monitoring the work of the Executive – that is, the president of the republic and his ministers;
• the approval or disapproval of the Union budget;
• the possibility of convening a Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry (CPI), if you wish to investigate any irregularity; It is
• the prerogative to initiate a process of impeachment against the president and vice-president, as well as against the ministers.

• Role and structure of the Chamber (Câmara dos Deputados)
• How the Chamber of Deputies works (Politicize!)

Legislative Assemblies

Unlike federal power, state legislative power is organized into just one chamber. It's the call Legislative Assembly.

Representatives of the state legislature are called state deputies. They are elected in the open list proportional system, which is also used to elect councilors and federal deputies. Voting for state deputy takes place every 4 years, together with elections for president, and the congressman can be re-elected indefinitely.

The number of state deputies in each Assembly depends directly on the number of federal deputies in each state. Thus, the larger the state's population, the more seats there will be in its Assembly.

As for the responsibilities of the State Assemblies, there is not much secret. They have the same functions that the Chamber and the Senate have at the federal level: represent the people, legislate (create, modify and extinguish laws) and supervise the Executive Branch and the use of public resources.

The difference is that state deputies take care of projects that will impact regional and local problems, specific to the states where they live.

• Understand what a state deputy does (Agency Brazil)
• Find out what a state deputy does during his term of office (FSP)🚥

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