This is what the House represents.
This is what the Senate represents.
What are districts? (House)
What are states? (Senate)
100
This is when someone purposely wastes time by talking about random things to prevent the adoption of a bill.
What is a filibuster?
100
This is the most powerful committee in the House.
What is the Rules Committee?
100
This is where are new bills sent to.
What is the committee that deals with the bill’s subject matter?
100
This is when legislators help their constituents with their problems, which helps them get re-elected.
What is casework?
200
House of Representatives serves this many years.
Senators serve this many years.
What are 2 years? (House)
What are 6 years? (Senate)
200
This is the difference between a revenue bill and an appropriation bill.
What are taxes (revenue deals) and spending (appropriation deals) ?
200
The (House/Senate) of Congress has the power to give prolonged speeches to block a bill. Also, what is this prolonged speech called?
Senate; filibuster
200
This is where approved bills are sent to.
What is the President?
200
This branch of Congress is considered the Upper House.
What is the Senate?
300
This is the most important person in the Senate.
This is the most important in the House.
What is a majority leader? (Senate)
What is the Speaker of the House (House of Representatives)
300
This is a rule that forbids members of Congress from offering amendments to a bill.
What is a closed rule?
300
This can have more influence than a member of Congress over a proposed bill.
What is a committee staffer?
300
This is how you can bypass a committee.
What is attaching a bill?
300
This is our congressional district representative.
Who is Mike Honda?
400
This house fluctuates more.
This stops the other house from fluctuating as much.
What is the Senate?
What is gerrymandering?
400
This is the type of vote you take to stop someone from purposely talking on and on about random things to prevent the adoption of a bill.
What is a cloture vote?
400
This is the reason committees are more important in the House than they are in the Senate.
The senate is disorganized and informal, whereas the House is disciplined and needs committees in order to do work.
400
This is the role of the vice president in Congress.
This is when he actually acts.
What is presiding over the Senate?
What is a tie?
400
This is the coercion of powerful politicians in order to advance legislation.
What is the Johnson treatment?
500
These are three things both the Senate and House have in common.
1. Members introduce bills.
2. Majority leaders control flow of bills to committees and to floor for debate and vote.
3. Minority leaders develop strategies to oppose or amend majority party bills.
500
This is synonymous to investigate.
It grants Congress power to do this.
What is oversight?
What is investigating an executive?
500
This is the difference between the Conference Committee and House Ways and Means Committee.
The Conference Committee comes up with one version of a bill that exists in both the House & Senate and the House Ways and Means Committee creates bills about spending and taxes.
500
This is a way Congress circumvents the Supreme Court’s ruling if the Supreme Court strikes the bill down.
What is making an amendment to the bill?
500
This is three ways a bill can be rejected.
1. It can fail to be voted out of committee.
2. It can be stopped by the Rules Committee
3. A Senate filibuster can force the majority of the Senate to abandon the bill.