The Legislative Power

 The three entities that compose the Legislative Power are: Chamber of Deputies (representatives of the Brazilian people); Federal Senate (representatives of the states and the Federal District); Court of Account of the Union (organ that helps the National Congress in the activities of external control and oversight).

 According to the Federal Constitution, article 44, "the Legislative Power is exercised by the National Congress, which is composed by the Chamber of Deputies and the Federal Senate".

 The National Congress has, as main responsibilities, to elaborate laws and proceed the accounting, financial, budgetary, operational and patrimonial oversight of the Union and of the entities of the direct and indirect administration.

 The bicameral system adopted in Brazil requires the manifestation of the two Houses on the elaboration of juridical rules, that is, if a proposition is introduced in the Chamber of Deputies, the Senate will revise it, and vice-versa, except those rules related to subjects which are private to each House.

 The exclusive jurisdiction of the Chamber of Deputies, according to the article 51 of the Federal Constitution, includes: authorization to open a lawsuit against the President and the Vice-President of the Republic and Ministers of State;  audit the accounts of the President of the Republic, when  they are not presented within the constitutional term; elaboration of the House Rules and the ruling on organization, functioning, police, creation, transformation or extinction of offices, jobs and functions of its services, and the initiative for its remuneration, within the parameters of the budgetary guidelines law; election of member of the Counsel of the Republic.

 The Chamber of Deputies is the House where most of the legislative proposals are introduced. Organ of the most immediate people's representation, it gathers many of the greatest debates and decisions of national importance.