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'Congress is a policy-making body and Parliament is a policy-influencing body' Discuss. Parliament can modify and sometimes reject measures brought forward by the executive but cannot formulate and substitute policy of their own. Whereas in Congress can not only modify and reject proposed legislation but can also devise and substitute their own policy. Congress and Parliament are both legislatures, where one of their main roles is law-making. This is the main feature in congress taking up the majority of time with over 1000 bills being introduced into Congress compared with only 100 in a parliamentary session. However in Congress many Bills don't pass the committee stage whereas in the UK, there is an expectation that the bills will be passed, expect from Private Members Bills, which don't have much success in neither Congress nor Parliament. Party dominance and loyalty play a part in the nature of the legislatures, most British...

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