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		iaw on Oct 24, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: I am an Uighur who faced China’s concentration cam... The House of Representatives is often colloquially referred to as "congress" don't ask me why even though that's the name of the bicameral body.

gremlinsinc on Oct 24, 2020 [–]

I think it's because ... reps are called congressmen/women, senators in the senate are well, called senators...

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