The Actual Job and Power of Congress and How Our Congress Breaks Down

congress is made up of the senate and house and the breakdown is as follows, actually showing a predominantly Democrat congress.... and can be seen at this site:

http://usgovinfo.about.com/blbalance.htm

Here is the breakdown:

U.S. Congress Today
Balance of Political Power in the 110th U.S. Congress

110th House of Representatives
Second Session

Democrats: 235
Republicans: 199
Independents: 0
Vacant Seats: 1
Total: 435

House Vacancies (1):

Vacancy: Ohio, 11th - The Honorable Stephanie Tubbs Jones died on August 20, 2008. Vacancy effective August 21, 2008.

110th Senate
Second Session

Democrats: 49
Republicans: 49
Independent Democrat: 1* (Sen. Joe Lieberman of Connecticut)
Independents: 1 (Sen. James Jeffords of Vermont)
Vacant Seats: 0
Total: 100

*Sen. Lieberman has indicated that he will serve as an "Independent Democrat" and become a member of the Senate Democratic Caucus.

Republican Vice President Richard Chaney, as President of the Senate, votes only to break ties.

Senate Vacancies (0):

Senator Craig Thomas (R-Wyoming) died on June 4 of myeloid leukemia. The governor of Wyoming selected John Barrasso (R) to replace Sen. Thomas. Sen. Barrasso was sworn in on June 25, 2007.
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Here are some of the jobs of Congress: Below is a listing of jobs of congress and more detailed is here at: http://tinyurl.com/6y4rad

1-To borrow money on the credit of the United States;
2-To regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several states and with Indian tribes;
3-To establish a uniform rule of naturalization and uniform laws on the subject of bankruptcies throughout the United States;
4-To coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coin, and fix the standard of weights and measures;
5-To provide for the punishment of counterfeiting the securities and current coin of the Unites States;
6-To establish post offices and post roads;
7-To promote the progress of science and useful arts by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries;
8-To constitute tribunals inferior to the Supreme Court;
9-To define and punish piracies and felonies committed on the high seas, and offenses against the law of nations;
10-To declare war, grant letters of marque and reprisal, and make rules concerning captures on land and water;
11-To raise and support armies but no appropriation of money to that use shall be for a longer term than two years;
12-To provide and maintain a navy;
13-To make rules for the government and regulation of the land and naval forces;
14-To provide for calling forth the militia to execute the laws of the union suppress insurrections and repel invasions;
15-To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining the militia and for governing such part of them as may be employed in the service of the United States, reserving to the states respectively the appointment of the officers and the authority of training the militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress;
16-To exercise exclusive legislation in all cases whatsoever over such District (not exceeding ten miles square) as may, by cession of particular states and the acceptance of Congress become the seat of the government of the United States, and to exercise like authority over all places purchased by the consent of the legislature of the state in which the same shall be, for the erection of forts, magazines, arsenals, dockyards, and other needful buildings.