Senate
The basis for having the senate's equal 2 members per state.
What is the New Jersey Plan?
Basis for the House of Representatives having members based on states population?
What is the Virginia Plan?
Congress can declare any bill or law that is passed unconstitutional with the power of judicial review.
False, this is a power of the judicial branch.
The process or an instance of obstructing legislation by means of long speeches and other delaying tactics.
What is a Filibuster?
This House committee handles how much money will be spent in a given year on particular government activities.
What is House Committee on Appropriations?
Power held in the Senate that allows the filibuster to be forced to end with 3/5 vote.
What is cloture?
The name for the area that a House member represents in congress
What is a District?
Congress needs a 2/3 majority vote in both the Senate and House to override a Presidential veto.
True
The person already holding office.
What is an incumbent?
This committee reconciles differences between the House and Senate version of a bill.
What is a conference committee?
The person that is considered the Head of the Senate
What is the Vice President?
Name of the term that allows an unfair advantage for the current House members due to the redrawing of the District lines.
What is Gerrymandering?
Revenue bills must originate in the House of Representatives
True
A legislative body having two branches, houses, or chambers.
What is a Bicameral Legislature?
This type of committee is a permanent subject-matter committee.
What is a standing committee?
Name 3 qualifications in Senate
30 years
9 year citizen
reside in state
Name 3 qualifications in House
25 years
citizen for 7 years
reside in state
Congress members have the right to send mail to their constituents at the government's expense through the power of legislative oversight.
False, this power is called Franking Privilege.
Congresses monitoring of the bureaucracy and its administrative of policy.
What is Legislative Oversight?
This type of committee may investigate an issue, but cannot forward a bill to either house of Congress
What is a joint committee?
The Senate is considered this because 1/3 of it's members are up for election every year.
What is a continuous body?
Name 3 different Leaders present in the House of Representatives
Speaker of the House, Majority Leader, Minority Leader
A committee that reconciles different versions of a bill passed by the Senate and the House, and issues a single bill for the two houses to vote on, is referred to as a select committee.
False, this is a Conference Committee.
A type of legislation that provides funding for local projects that are intended to benefit constituents
What is pork barrel legislation?
Which committee in the House sets conditions for debate and amendments
What is Rules Committee?