The House of Representatives is the less powerful of the two parts of Congress in the United States, or the equivalent part of the system of government in some other countries. The House of Representatives approved a new budget plan. The lower house of the U.S. Congress and of most state legislatures. the larger of the two parts of the US Congress or of the parliament of Australia or New Zealand Senate
{i} lower law-making authority in many national and federal governments having two legislative bodies