The Senate
The House
Powers
Definitions
Potpourri
100
The most powerful person in the US Senate
Who is the majority leader?
100
The amount of members in the House
What is 435?
100
The type of power used to create a national bank.
What is Implied Power derived from the "necessary and proper clause."
100
A Marginal District
What is a district where the winner got less than 55% of the vote?
100
Define Trustee Model
What is when a representative votes dependant on their own judgement regardless of constituents' opinions?
200
Selected members of the Senate under the original Constitution
What are state legislators?
200
The minimum age to be eligible to run to serve in the House of Representatives
What is 25?
200
The branch that has the power to interpret laws.
What is the Judicial Branch?
200
Legislative Oversight
What is Congress questioning executive agencies on the enforcement of laws?
200
Define Earmarks
What is money or programs that largely benefit just one state or congressional district?
300
The amount of senators required to end a filibuster.
What is 60?
300
Summaries encapsulating the informed judgement of others used to streamline the decision making process.
What are voting cues?
300
The trend in power distribution through the evolution of Congress.
What is from decentralized to more power for leadership?
300
Symbolic Representation
What is the assumption that a legislator will favor only his or her own ethnic or gender group?
300
Define divided government
What is it when the House, the Senate, and/or the executive branch are not all controlled by the same party?
400
Had the longest filibustering speech in history.
Who is Strom Thurmond?
400
A Democrat from California who was the first female Speaker of the House.
Who is Nancy Pelosi?
400
Presidential elections that are decided by the House?
What are elections when no candidate recieves a majority of the electoral votes?
400
Multiple Referrals
What is the process of sending bills to several committees at the same time?
400
Nixon argued that the War Powers Resolution violated the Constitution because it was this.
What is a legislative veto that violates the separation of powers?
500
The Democratic Committee that makes the crucial decisions regarding committee placement.
What is the Steering Committee?
500
The smallest committee in the House.
What is the Ethics Committee?
500
The distribution of power concerning a presidential impeachment.
What is the House passes articles of impeachment, the Senate will conduct a trial which will be presided over by the Chief Justice.
500
Sponsor
What is the member of Congress who introduces a bill?
500
The purpose of majority-minority districts.
What is to ensure the election of minority legislators?
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