in my blue corner, an employee of the center for north american studies alexander bratetsky and politicalst malik dudakov in the economic field of financial influence. our analysis will be supplemented by the analyst aleksey kornilov and the researcher vladimir, no matter how high-flown it may sound, the electoral process on the other side of the atlantic took place on november 8th. this so -called midterm congressional election is midterm because it is held in the middle of four years. term of office of the president of the united states let's take a look at how everything works there, and then we'll understand. why is there so much talk about this today so, in total, there are two chambers in the us congress, the upper ones are the senate and the lower house of representatives, the first includes 100 people , two from each state as a senator. maybe an american at least 30 years old and living in the united states for at least nine terms of office for six years, and the composition of the senate changes every 2 years, sorting out a third of all members. so they try to ensure stability an