Vocab
Senate
House of Representatives
Potpourri
Fun
100
The naming of those who will seek office
What is nomination?
100
Number of Senators
What is 100?
100
Responsible for drawing congressional districts in a state
Who is the state legislature?
100
Joe Donnelly and Dan Coats
Who are Indiana's two senators?
100
Dec. 21, 2012
What is the end of the world?
200
People and interests that an elected official represents
What is constituency?
200
Length of term for a Senator
What is 6 years?
200
The number of representatives in the house
What is 435?
200
Who the committee refers a bill too
What is a subcommittee?
200
Ammo and 12-gauge shotgun
What are Shawn's Christmas presents?
300
Occurs when a strong candidate running for an office at the top of the ballot helps attract voters to the party's candidates
What is the coattail effect?
300
The number of states represented in the Senate.
What is all 50
300
Length of term for a representative
What is 2 years?
300
The President of the Senate
Who is the Vice President?
300
where Indiana receives over one half million letters and requests at Christmas time.
What is Santa Claus
400
Various tactics aimed at defeating a bill in a legislative body by preventing a final vote
What is filibuster?
400
Limit of terms a senator can serve
What is however many they like.
400
Speaker of the House
Who is John Boehner?
400
An unpopular provision added to an important bill that is certain to pass
What is a rider?
400
Lil Wayne
Who is Jacob's Idol?
500
Intraparty election held to pick the party's candidates for the general election
What is a direct primary?
500
Qualifications for becoming a Senator
What are: 30 years old, being citizen of the US for at least 9 years, and an inhabitant of the state from which he/she is elected
500
Separating districts to determine their representatives in favor of a certain party
What is gerrymandering's main goal?
500
State that John Boehner is from
What is Ohio?
500
The religion of those who denied Hitler's application to art school
What is Judaism?
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