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Originally Posted by blur^
so a congressman from each...county? and the two senators represent each state in the house? do senators have more voting power?
what about governors? is that just the 'mayor' for the state capital?
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Congressman from each district. A law needs to be passed by the House, the Senate and the President (though I believe the president can be ignored by the other two if they have a 2/3 majority) so I guess you could say that a single Senator has more power to affect the vote than a single congressman. 1 out of 100 vs 1 out of 435 or whatever.
Governors are the effectively the president of the state level government - remembering that the senate and house are usually replicated at the state level as well.
I believe each level, federal, state and city has varying powers to level taxation so you could pay federal income tax, state payroll and sales tax and city level land-owners tax. Conceptually this isn't so different from here though, since I pay tax to my local council (rates), greater regional council (more rates) and national (the rest of the taxes)..