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1. In the House/the Senate, the majority party has a clear leg-up due to the control that they have in Congressional Committees. Specifically if a party is the majority than it is most likely to have the Committee Chairs filled, and those people decide the Congressional Agenda. By having these chairs belong to one party, that party has more of a control over what Congress will be voting on, hearing, and hiring.

2 &3. It may be easier for a bill to pass in the House over the Senate because of filibusters. A filibuster is when opponents of a piece of legislation try to talk to death based on the rule of "unlimited debate." Filibusters discourage laws passing through the Senate because any person can halt it completely. Filibusters are not allowed in the House, and therefore, with the use of filibusters, it can be harder to pass a bill in the Senate than the House. For example, if the Democratic party wanted to pass a law restricting gun control laws, they would have already proposed it to the House and the Senate. The House passes it, but a Republican in the Senate threatens (yes, there only has to be a threat) to filibuster the law and boom! The legislation is d-e-a-d.