This chamber is more diverse in terms of membership.
What is the House of Representatives?
100
Tax, Coin Money, Regulate Commerce, Declare War
What are Enumerated/Delegated Powers?
100
The population count taken every ten years.
What is the Census?
100
This August body leader assigns bills to Committee
Who is the Senate Majority Leader?
100
Creates Direct Election of Senators
What is the 17th Amendment?
200
What chamber has 1/3 of its membership change each term?
What is the Senate?
200
The main job of Congress
What is to Legislate?
200
The process whereby the national government divides up how many seats a state will receive in the House of Representatives.
What is Apportionment/Reapportionment?
200
Creates the Compromise for the House and Senate versions of a bill before the trip to the White House
What is the Conference Committee?
200
Talk a bill to death
What is Filibuster?
300
The House of Reps special power that affects Fiscal Policy.
What is "Raise Revenue"?
300
Congress keeps a close eye on the Executive Branch
What is Oversight?
300
State legislatures create the districts, while the governor approves them.
What is redistricting?
300
Top seat of the minority in a committee
What is the ranking member?
300
This privilege allows Congressman to contact their constituents about all the great things they are doing for them in Washington without costing the Congressman a dime.
What is the Franking Privilege?
400
The threshold needed for appointments
What is a simple majority?
400
This clause allows in the Constitution allows Congress to do more things than what is actually enumerated in the document.
What is the "Necessary and Proper Clause" or Elastic Clause?
400
To give their own political party an advantage in winning future congressional elections in as many districts as possible
What is Gerrymandering?
400
Often Considered the 2nd Most Powerful person in Washington.
Who is the Speaker of the House?
400
Shut a Senator up from his Filibuster
What is Cloture?
500
This chamber has the ability to include non-germane additions to legislation during floor debate.
What is the Senate?
500
Before the Presidential Trial
What is Impeachment?
500
Court Case that establishes "one person one vote" for redistricting Congressional District
What is Wesbury v. Sanders?
Reynolds v. Simms does this at the state level.
Baker v. Carr allows the court to hear this type of case.
Reno v. Shaw cannot draw lines based on race
500
My personal lucky number of appropriation committees in EACH houses.
What is 12?
500
Before a floor debate it decides time limits, open or closed to amendments, and is Chaired by the majority party.