Congressional Terms Out of Context
You pay this at the end of a meal
What is a bill?
The annual training for staff, interns, and Members describes your ethical obligations while working in the House of Representatives
What is Ethics?
This way of measuring time, by FY, goes from October 1st to September 30th. For example, I was born in 2001, but FY2002
What is a Fiscal year?
Claudia serves on these three Committees
What are Ways & Means, Science, Space, & Technology, and HPSCI?
A two heads of Committees
What is a Chair Pair?
It is a type of bridge or part of your car that absorbs shock
What is suspension?
This man speaks on behalf of the House of Representatives
Who is the Speaker of the House?
When something passes by UC, the entire Senate agrees to pass it without a recorded vote
What is Unanimous Consent?
Claudia studied abroad and worked for the consulate of this former country
What is Yugoslavia
Someone who poaches the head of a Congressional staff
What is a chief thief?
You may have one by JBL or Bose to play music at a party
What is a Speaker?
This House Office Building is named for former President and House Minority Leader Gerald Ford
What is the Ford House Office Building?
This type of parliamentary vote, a PQ, cuts off debate and allows Congress to proceed directly to the next item of business
What is a Previous Question?
Claudia attended this small liberal arts college in New York, as did James, Thomas, and Caroline
What is Colgate?
When Justices Roberts, Kavanuagh, Kagan, and Jackson vacation in an all-inclusive spot in the Bahamas
What is a court resort?
It could be a Ford, a Chevy, or a Volkswagen
What is a vehicle?
This Committee deals with appropriating all federal tax dollars
What is the Committee on Appropriations?
If you've got a PAYGO problem, it means Congress overspent in a bill, which could lead to corresponding cuts in Mandatory programs like Medicare.
What is Pay as you go?
When this member retires at the end of the year, Claudia will be the most senior member of the New York Republican delegation
Who is Elise Stefanik?
A benefit for the staff that administer bills on the House floor
What is clerk perk?
A group of Salamanders
What is a Congress?
This House of Representatives Employee within the Office of the Clerk is charged with reading bill titles, motions, and resolutions on the House Floor
What is the House Reading Clerk?
As a member of HPSCI, Claudia gets classified briefings that most members cannot access
What is the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence?
This is the largest city in Claudia Tenney's District
What is Watertown?
When Congress tries to hold an uncooperative witness accountable
What is a contempt attempt?