Committee System
Senate
House of Representatives
Leadership Positions
An "A" in Congress
100
This committee gathers information through hearings and investigations.
What is the Standing Committee?
100
The amount of Senate members.
What is 100?
100
The amount of members in the House.
What is 435?
100
This position in the Senate is currently held by Joe Biden.
What is President of the Senate?
100
Equal Representation (one person, one vote), is the constitutional principle behind this.
What is Apportionment?
200
This committee does most of the work of reviewing proposed legislation.
What is the Sub-Committee?
200
The age requirement for a Senator.
What is 30?
200
The age requirement for a House member.
What is 25?
200
Nancy Pelosi was the first woman to serve as this position.
What is Speaker of the House?
200
This can be used to change the Constitution, even if it means reversing a ruling of the Supreme Court.
What is an Amendment?
300
This committee deals with matters of common interest such as economy policy.
What is the Joint Committee?
300
Senators must be a U.S. citizen for this many years.
What is 9?
300
House members must be a U.S. citizen for this many years.
What is 7?
300
This position serves as the spokesperson for the party that holds the most seats in the Senate.
What is the Majority Leader?
300
In the Constitution, this states that Congress shall have "all legislative Powers."
What is Article I?
400
This committee makes recommendations to Congress based on their investigations.
What is the Select Committee? *Will accept, What is the Special Committee?
400
Senators serve this many years in a term.
What is 6?
400
Members of the House serve this many years in a term.
What is 2?
400
In the House, these positions manage legislation on the House floor where House members debate and vote on bills.
What are Majority and Minority Leaders?
400
Funds allocated by a legislature for a stated purpose as part of a budget or spending bill.
What are Appropriations?
500
This Committee requires both chambers to pass identical versions of a bill for it to become a law.
What is the Conference Committee?
500
With the ratification of this Amendment in 1913, the Senate became elected directly by voters instead of by state legislatures.
What is the Seventeenth Amendment?
500
In 2006, this 21-year-old of South Carolina became the youngest House member and state legislator in the country.
Who is Bakari Sellers?
500
This position includes the term that means "for the time being".
What is President of the Senate Pro Tempore?
500
This word means to distribute (resources or duties) for a particular purpose, similar to apportion.
What is Allocate?
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