Committees
Rules and Functions
Elections and Parties
Making a Law
Grab Bag
100
The person with great control over what committee every member is on?
Who is the Speaker of the House?
100
How often does the number of representatives have to change based on population?
What is every ten years?
100
This is the best predictor in the outcome of a Congressional election.
What is incumbency?
100
Supporting one another's legislation in Congress is known as this.
What is logrolling?
100
An example of this would be Congress conducting an investigation to uncover an executive department's wrongdoing.
What is oversight?
200
This committee reconciles differences between the House and Senate version of a bill?
What is a conference committee?
200
Congressional oversight hearings typically take place through this venue
What is committee and subcommittee hearings?
200
Party unity in Congress is maintained by this system of influence. Each party has one.
What is the whip system?
200
This type of veto is unconstitutional at the federal level, but is still used by some state governors.
What is a line-item veto?
200
The term used for the relationship between the federal bureaucracy, congressional committees, and lobbyists.
What is an iron triangle?
300
This type of committee is a permanent subject-matter committee
What is a standing committee?
300
This body of Congress has unlimited debate.
What is the Senate?
300
Name one advantage of incumbency.
What is increased campaign contributions, services for constituents, franking, etc.
300
A type of legislation that provides funding for local projects that are intended to benefit constituents
What is pork barrel legislation or ear marks?
300
The state whose gerrymandering case is in front of the Supreme Court.
What is Wisconsin?
400
This committee has members from both Houses and explore policy issues.
What is a joint committee?
400
This is the purpose of a filibuster
What is to delay or kill a bill.
400
The right of members of Congress to send mail to their constituents at the government's expense
What are franking privileges?
400
When submitting budget requests, executive agencies submit these proposals to this person.
What is the President?
400
The office that analyzes the president's budget and projects costs and savings.
What is the Congressional Budget Office?
500
Which committee in the House sets conditions for debate and amendments?
What is the Rules Committee?
500
This is used in the Senate to end debate on a bill, but it requires vote of 60.
What is cloture?
500
This person is the President of the Senate.
What is the Vice President?
500
The president failing to sign a bill after Congress's session has ended.
What is a pocket veto?
500
The number of years old a Senator must be to run.
What is 30?
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