The election of the President of the United States is a process that involves several steps and is based on the Electoral College system. Read more about it here.

In the United States, a president can serve a maximum of two terms, according to the 22nd Amendment to the Constitution. Each term lasts four years, so a president can serve a total of eight years in office. This term limit was established to prevent any one person from holding the office for too long and to encourage new leadership and ideas in the executive branch of the government.

The U.S. House of Representatives has 435 voting members. These members are elected from congressional districts that are apportioned to each of the 50 states based on population as determined by the U.S. Census, which is conducted every ten years. Each representative serves a two-year term, with all seats up for election every two years.

A conference committee is a special, temporary panel formed from members of both the House of Representatives and the Senate. Its main purpose is to resolve differences between the House and Senate versions of a particular piece of legislation. When both chambers pass their own versions of a bill but the versions differ, a conference committee is convened to achieve a compromise.

Members of the conference committee, called conferees, are usually selected from the House and Senate committees that originally worked on the bill. They work together to agree on a single version of the bill. This agreed-upon version is called a conference report.