This is what a bill becomes after it makes it through all the committees/ passes through to the end.
What is a Law?
100
This is how many members The Senate has.
What is 100?
100
This is the most powerful person in the House.
Who is the speaker of the House?
100
This committee can stop a bill from making it to the floor
What is a Rules Committee?
100
This is the name of the system that gives more power to a member the longer they are in the House or Senate.
What is the Seniority system?
200
This is when a bill is left in the last ten days of a session of congress and the President just leaves it alone to become a bill regardless if congress wanted it or not.
What is a pocket veto?
200
These are the names for the leaders of both parties in the senate.
Who are the Majority and Minority leaders?
200
This is the person the House picks in case of a tie.
Who is the President?
200
This session can cause your bill to look different coming out, then going in. It's a session where bills can be changed.
What is a Markup session?
200
Congress has two sets of staffs. One is a personal staff and the other is a _____ staff
What is a Committee staff?
300
This is the name of a bill that brings money to a district
What is a Revenue Bill?
300
This is needed in order to stop a fillbuster (remember mustache)
What is a 60% vote?
300
This is the reason why The House members no longer represent the peoples voice.
What is Gerrymandering?
300
There are all sorts of committees, however, there are four basic ones. Name them.
What are a Standing, Sub, Select, and Conference committees?
300
Answer Daily Double
What is a Subpoena?
400
Bills can sit forever before going to congress if it does not get a good place on this timetable list.
What is a calendar?
400
The Senate is known to have a ____ atmosphere.
What is a informal atmosphere?
400
This is a meeting for picking the speaker of the House; not held in the public but rather in this kind of a meeting. Name what kind of meeting it is.
What is a Caucus?
400
Committee chairs have lots of power. They can decide when hearings are held, when members meet, and even hire committee staff and control the committee's _____
What is the Committee Budget?
400
The constitutional powers can get a little hazy when it comes to powers, esspecally when it comes to this clause.
What is the necessary and proper clause?
500
This is the process in which lawmakers get his or hers unpopular bill to pass with a popular bill.
What is attaching a bill?
500
They are California's two long serving women Senators.
Who are Dianne Feinstein and Barabara Boxer?
500
Meetings in the house are hard to get because most members don't show. However you don't need all the members, only a certain number need to be there. This is the term for this number of people needed.
What is a quorum?
500
Committee people often do the most work in congress, but most of the time it is not for the common good but for the _____ in there districts.
What is a Constituent?
500
This is the term for when one party is “in charge” of one house and the opposing party is “in charge” of the other. (Ex. Democrats run the House while Republicans run the Senate.)