Senate
House of Representatives
Incumbency
General
Committees
100
The number of members in the Senate
What is 100 members
100
The number of members in the House of Representatives
What is 435 members
100
Someone who holds office seeking reelection
What is an incumbent
100
This is a proposed law drafted in legal language
What is a bill
100
A system that allows members that have been in the committee the longest to be the committee chair
What is seniority system
200
The age requirement to be a senate member
What is 30 years old
200
The age requirement to be a House of Representative member
What is 25 years old
200
Advantages of Incumbency
What is Credit Claiming, Franking Privilege, and Advertising
200
This is legislature divided in two houses
What is bicameralism
200
Committees on few subject-matter areas with membership from both houses
Joint Committees
300
The tactic Senate uses to kill a bill
What is filibuster
300
The leader of the House of representatives
What is the Speaker of the House
300
One way an incumbent might lose
What is redistricting
300
Congress’s sight of the executive branch bureaucracy and its administration of policy
What is legislative oversight
300
Committees in each house of congress that handle bills in different policy areas
what is Standing Commitees
400
Who leads the Senate
What is the Vice President
400
One power the House of Representatives has to check the power of the executive branch
What is Impeachment
400
The average percent of votes for incumbents
What is 60%
400
A group of members of congress sharing interest or characteristic
What is a congressional caucus
400
Committees formed when the senate and the house pass a particular bill in different forms. Party leadership appoints members from each house to iron out differences and bring back a single bill
what is conference committees
500
The most underrepresented group in Senate
What is Native Americans
500
Bills start in the House of Representatives that manage money
What is revenue bills
500
The percent of Incumbents winning
What is 84% for senate, and 85% for House
500
Party leaders who work with the majority or minority leaders to count votes beforehand and lean on waverers whose votes are crucial for passage of a bill
what is a whip?
500
The committee in the house that reviews most bills coming from a house committee before they pass onto the full house.
what is house rules committees