How is the policymaking process different in the Senate than it is in the House? a. Filibusters are less common in the Senate.
b. The Rules Committee is more powerful in the Senate.
c. Debates are less formal in the Senate.
d. Bills are passed more quickly in the Senate.

When the Framers created a bicameral legislature, they created a system of checks and balances within Congress by requiring a bill to be passed in both chambers.

The structures, powers, and functions of the House of Representatives and the Senate are different, and these differences can affect the policymaking process: for example, by accelerating it or slowing it down, and by the extent to which bipartisan collaboration is or is not facilitated.