House
This is the term length a member of the house of representatives serve.
What is 2 years?
This is the minimum age and citizenship a member of the senate is required to have.
What is 30 years old and 9 years citizenship?
A type of congressional select (sometimes called "special") committee created for a specific time period and purpose.
What is Temporary Select Committee?
A proposed law within Congress.
What is a bill?
Members of the House and Senate who are chosen by the Democratic caucus or Republican conference in each chamber to represent the party's interest in the chamber and wield authority on behalf of the party.
What is Party Leaders?
Leads in developing the party’s legislative strategies
What is the role of House Minority Leader?
Top leader of the minority party in the Senate.
What is Senate Minority Leader?
Permanent congressional committees with responsibility for a particular area of public policy.
What is a Standing Committee?
Compromise that sought to solve the disagreement between large and small states at the Constitutional Convention over how to apportion seats in Congress.
What is the Great Compromise/ Connecticut Compromise?
These are the two major parties in the house.
What are Democrats and Republicans?
Powerful presiding officer of the House of Representatives selected by majority vote in the chamber and, thus, always the leader of the majority party in the House.
What is Speaker of the House?
Position assigned by the Constitution to the Vice President of the United States. The position has little power except for casting tie breaking votes.
What is President of the Senate?
A type of congressional select committee that has permanent status. It is similar to a standing committee, with the main difference being it covers issues that cut across the jurisdiction of multiple standing committees.
What is a Permanent Select Committee?
The nickname term for the legislative branch
What is “The peoples branch” ?
Party leaders in the House and Senate responsible for whipping up votes and enforcing party discipline.
What are Whips?
Second most influential leader of the majority party in the House of Representatives (behind only the Speaker of the House).
What is House Majority Leader?
Powerful Senate leader who formally serves as head of the majority party. In terms of power and prestige, the Senate Majority Leader is the closest thing to a Senate version of the House's Speaker.
What is the Senate Majority Leader?
Congressional committees composed of members of both houses and that perform advisory functions.
What is a Joint Committee?
legislatures with only one chamber--for their national government
What is unicameral?
A group that consists of a party's members in the House or Senate and that serves to elect the party's leadership, set policy goals, and determine party strategy
What is Party Caucus?
experience/ time served on a committee that causes leadership on that specific committee
What is seniority?
Powerful Senate leader who formally serves as head of the majority party. In terms of power and prestige, the Senate Majority Leader is the closest thing to a Senate version of the House's Speaker.
What is Senate Majority Leader?
Temporary committees that are formed to resolve differences between House and Senate versions of a bill.
Conference Committee
The voting citizens to whom which an elected representative is democratically accountable.
What are Constituents?
Person in charge of formally "presiding" over the Senate in the absence of the President of the Senate (i.e., the Vice President of the U.S.). This mostly honorary and powerless position is typically assigned to the most senior senator of the majority party.
What is President Pro Tempore?