Can you say Committee?
Bills
Who or What am I?
Law and Senate
MISC
100
Provides a "rule" for each bill.
What is House Rules Committee
100
Who can introduce a bill
What is Any member of Congress
100
My party elects me. I am a deputy to the party leaders and work to ensure that party members vote the way the party leadership intends.
What is Whips.
100
The Senate has a _______, saying no senator may speak more than twice on a given question on the same legislative day.
What is "Two-Speech Rule"
100
I am the current President of the Senate.
Who is Joe Biden.
200
Permanent committee created by statute.
What is Standing Committee
200
Describe a pigeoholed bill.
What is buried. They die in a committee, put away and never to be acted upon.
200
Nelson Rockefeller, Walter Mondale, and Dan Quayle have all been named under this congressional posiition.
What is President of the Senate.
200
Adopted in 1917, the Senate's real check on the filibuster is its ________, Rule XXII in the Standing Rules of the Senate.
What is Cloture rule.
200
He has the record for the longest filibuster, which lasted 24 hours, and 18 minutes, which was a dispute over the Civil Rights Act of 1957.
Who is former Senator Strom Thurmond.
300
These committees are formed to investigate a specific issue. For examle, the Senate Watergate Committee was formed to investigate the Watergate Scandel.
What is Select Committee
300
Why do most bills die in committees?
What is Because the committee members either do not care about the issue or actively want to block it.
300
Newt Gingrich, Dennis Hastert, and now _______ ________ have all held the position of _________________________.
What is Nancy Pelosi, and Speaker of the House.
300
The Senate vote to cut off debate is _____________.
What is Cloture.
300
Senators can use the right of ________ to block a vot on a bill, which members of the House can not do.
What is Filibuster.
400
Define the difference between joint and subcommittees
What is subcommittees are divisions of standing committees which do most of the committees' work and joint committees are composed of members of both houses.
400
What are 3 factors that influence how members of Congress vote on a bill.
What is Party membership, their constituencies, and the president. Other members, congressional staff, and interest groups also can influence voting.
400
System that gave power to the committee chairs.
What is Seniority System/Rule
400
What is a Pocket Veto
What is Rejection of a bill that is sent to the president within ten days of a session's end.
400
What is a discharge petition.
What is it enables members to force a bill that has remained in committee 30 days (7 in the Rules Committee) onto the floor for Consideration.
500
Temporary committee set up to resolve differences between the House and Senate versions of a bill.
What is Conference Committee's
500
DAILY DOUBLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! How many types of bills are there? Also, name and describe them?
What is 2 bills. Public and private bills. Public bills are measures applying to the nation as a whole. Private are measures that apply to certain persons or places rather than to the entire nation.
500
The President Delivers a ____________________ speech from time to time, which is stated in the Constitution, under article ___, Section ____, and during this speech the President will talk about what kind of things? Name 2
What is State of the Union message/address, Under Article 2, section 3, and will talk about the state of the nation, the broad shape of the policies the administration expects to follow. It may include specific legislative recommendations, etc.
500
DAILY DOUBLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Discuss the differences between the House and Senate in realtion to: Size, rules, and the amount of debating that is allowed.
What is the HOUSE has 435 members, has more formal, less flexible rules, and the floor debate is strictly limited. The SENATE has 100 members, has fewer, more flexible rules, and the floor debate is largely unlimated, but subject to cloture vote by 60 Senators to end debate.
500
The passage of ___________________ gave the chief executive the power to reject individual items in appropriations bills. However, in this court case ___________________, it was struck down in 1998.
What is Line Item Veto Act of 1996, Clinton V. City of New York.
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