Since polystyrene disintegrates slowly, one of the main challenges that it poses on the environment is that exposure to the sun causes it to photodegrade, meaning it breaks apart into smaller and smaller pieces. The broken down material ends up looking like food to small animals.
United States Congress elections, 2016. A total of 469 seats in the U.S. Congress (34 Senate seats and all 435 House seats) were up for election on November 8, 2016. The big story of the 2016 congressional election cycle was whether or not the Democratic Party would be able to regain control of the Senate.
There are 100 Senators in the Senate. The number of Senators per state remains at two and the total number only changes when a new state is admitted into the union. There are 435 Representatives in the House of Representatives. The number of members in the House of Representatives is a different story and is based on population. The process by which seats in the House are distributed to the states is called âCongressional apportionmentâ and starts with the U.S. Census which is conducted every ten years. The number of seats depends on the population of each state which in turn determines the number of districts.