Election to Congress
Committes
Powers
Lawmaking Process
Gerrymandering
100
SCOTUS has declared that this is the only method of creating term limits for members of Congress
What is a constitutional amendment?
100
Committee that resolves differences between bills
What is a conference committee?
100
Term for Congress' investigative power
What is oversight?
100
Term for when members of Congress make changes or revise a bill
What is marking up?
100
Seat that is predictably won by the same political party over and over again
What is a safe seat?
200
Individual who is seeking reelection to the same position they currently occupy
What is an incumbent?
200
Term for when a bill dies in the committee
What is pigeonholed?
200
Powers granted to Congress in the Constitution
What are expressed powers?
200
Type of wood that the hopper is made out of
What is mahogany?
200
Congressional district designed to make it easier for citizens of a racial or ethnic minority to elect representatives.
What is a Majority-Minority District?
300
The process by which House seats are distributed among the states
What is apportionment?
300
Most important committee in Congress
What is the House Rules Committee?
300
Percentage of the Senate needed to convict the president
What is 2/3?
300
Term for the number of representatives needed to be present in order for a chamber to take official action
What is a quorum?
300
SCOTUS case known as the original "one man, one vote" ruling.
What is Baker v. Carr?
400
Constitutional amendment that allows for the direct election of Senators
What is the 17th Amendment?
400
Committee in the House that generates revenue legislation
What is the House Ways and Means committee?
400
Percentage of the Senate required to approve of treaties
What is 2/3?
400
Number of days needed after a bill is passed by Congress before a pocket veto can occur
What are 10 days?
400
SCOTUS case that declared that districts cannot be drawn based on racial discrimination
What is Gomillion v. Lightfoot?
500
Year that the House of Representatives was capped at 435 members
What is 1911?
500
Type of standing committee that produces policy-orientated bills (education, defense, etc)
What is an authorizing committee?
500
Number of votes required in order to become president if the House of Representatives is choosing the president
What is 26?
500
Type of voting (other than electronic) is unique to the House of Representatives
What is teller voting?
500
SCOTUS case that declared that race cannot be the sole or predominant factor in redrawing Congressional districts
What is Shaw v. Reno?
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