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The House just passed a minimum wage increase , the first in 10 years , and the Senate will soon follow . Their quorum is the same as that of the House ; and if a defect happens , the chairman , on a motion and question , rises , the Speaker resumes the chair , and the chairman can make no other report than to inform the House of the cause of their dissolution . I said during my talk at the White House that the Arabs in the Middle East outnumbered the Jews to such an extent that even if , in the initial clash , the Jews would have the advantage and be able to establish their State , they would be [ 164 ] facing a hostile Arab world many times the size of the Jewish State for an indefinite number of years to come . Kyle commented that the House of Representatives style would be a better model if it was necessary to choose , as the only reason both exist was to serve as checks for one another ; Eric said that the size of the U.S. House is not Constitutionally fixed but set by statute . It was probably from this view of the encroaching character of privilege , that the framers of our constitution , in their care to provide that the laws shall bind equally on all , and especially that those who make them shall not exempt themselves from their operation , have only privileged " Senators and Representatives " themselves from the single act of " arrest in all cases , except treason , felony and breach of the peace , during their attendance at the session of their respective Houses , and in going to and returning from the same , and from being questioned in any other place for any speech or debate in either House .