employee of the center for north american studies alexander bratetsky and political scientist malik durakov in the economic field of financial influence. our analysis will be supplemented by analyst alexei kornilov and researcher iran vladimir, no matter how pompous the electoral process may sound passed across the atlantic on november 8th. these are the so -called mid-term congressional elections , because they are held in the middle of the four-year period. broad powers 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 one includes 100 people , two from each state as a senator. may be an american at least 30 years of age and a resident of the united states for at least nine terms of office 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 and continuity in the activ