While representation in the House is based on population size, all states are equally represented in the Senate.

VOA: special.2009.08.14

He lived alone in a house of logs surrounded on all sides by the great forest.

VOA: special.2009.10.31

It was too wet to play. So we sat in the house all that cold,cold,wet day.

VOA: special.2010.05.02

What a courtyard does in a traditional Chinese house is really it connects all the rooms. Maya Lin is a Chinese-American building designer and artist.

VOA: special.2010.03.03

He felt perfectly at ease. He had only to look at his tuxedo to know he belonged with all the other beautiful people in the opera house.

VOA: special.2009.04.11

So we sat in the house. We did nothing at all.

VOA: special.2010.05.02

" ...to end the bailouts, cut spending and shrink the size and scope of government, the only way to do all of those things is to put someone in the White House who will not veto any of those things."

VOA: special.2010.11.06

"I remember when my daddy first gave me that gun, he told me that I should never point at anything in the house, and that I could shoot all the blue jays I wanted, if I could hit them.

VOA: special.2010.07.08

This is how she described what she could see from that house on a hill: "The far-off mountains in all their grandeur, and the deep valleys, and widely extended plains, and more than all, that little village below, containing only a very few white houses, but more than those young eyes had ever seen."

VOA: special.2010.06.27

All the members of the minority party voted against the Senate measure, and only one supported the legislation passed in the House.

VOA: standard.2009.12.27

Laws vary by state, so U.S.House of Representatives is considering a bill that would allow all former prisoners to vote in federal elections after they have completed their sentences.

VOA: standard.2010.03.25

It's eight in the evening and the end of a hectic day at the house of Carolyn Maloney, Melissa Bean and Debbie Wasserman Schultz, all Democrats, in a neighborhood near the U.S.Capitol.

VOA: standard.2010.08.07

Local police say they the men were arrested at a house in the city of Sargodah and that all of them have admitted they had come to Pakistan for "jihad" or holy war.

VOA: standard.2009.12.11

British Defense Secretary Bob Ainsworth said in the House of Commons that government is doing all it can to adequately protect troops in Afghanistan and he promised more assets would be moved into the theater of operation, but he underlined the mission will remain dangerous.

VOA: standard.2009.07.13