This means "having two houses' and describes our lawmaking structure
What is bicameral?
100
The age you must be to enter the house
What is 25?
100
The Senate has this many members
What is 100?
100
Power of the Purse is also called this power
What is Taxation?
100
This group of candidates win their elections about 90% of the time
Who are incumbents?
200
A committee that is a subset of a larger committee
What is a subcommittee?
200
No state can have fewer than this number of House members.
What is 1?
200
The unlimited use of debate in the senate
What is the filibuster?
200
committee that sets the calendar in the house
What is the Rules committee?
200
Frequent trips home are a type of this
What is advertizing?
300
Meetings of a committee to alter or modify a bill
What is a mark-up session?
300
The formal leader of the house
Who is the speaker of the house?
300
The formal leader of the senate
Who is the President of the Senate/The Vice-President of the United States?
300
This refers to the free use of the mail system enjoyed by Congress.
What is The Franking Privilage?
300
federal projects, grants, etc. made available in a congressional district or state
What is Pork Barrel Spending?
400
A temporary committee designed to investigate a specific issue
What is a select committee?
400
Committee within the house that controls taxation law
What is the House Ways and Means committee?
400
This is the formal name for a vote held to end a senate debate
What is cloture?
400
Individuals from organized groups, the private sector, corporations or advocacy groups who attempt to influence to influence decisions made by officials in the government
Who are Lobbyists?
400
Activities of members of Congress that help individual constituents
What is Casework?
500
Group responsible for determining economic impact and overall cost of legislation
What is the CBO?
500
The process by which seats in the United States House of Representatives are redistributed amongst the 50 states following each census (not the redrawing of districts)
What is Aportionment?
500
This amendment gave the power to elect senator to the people
What is the 17th?
500
Informal organizations within congress that typically organize on ideological or ethnic grounds
What is a caucus?
500
This is a major reason house members are safer than senators, the engineering of districts to specificaly elect members of a particular party