House of Reps
Senate
Becoming a Law
Public Interest
People
100
Number of members in the House of Representatives
What is 435?
100
Number of members in the Senate
What is 100?
100
Term for rejecting a bill by ignoring it
What is pigeonholing?
100
Employee hired by a public interest group to contact and influence lawmakers
What is a lobbyist?
100
Current Speaker of the House
Who is John Boehner?
200
House seats are apportioned in states based on this
What is population?
200
Qualifications for becoming a senator?
What is 30 years of age and a citizen for nine years?
200
Term for an unrelated provision attached to a bill that is likely to pass
What is a rider?
200
Give three examples of a public interest group
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200
Current president of the Senate
Who is Joe Biden?
300
2 qualifications for becoming a member of the House
What is 25 years old and a citizen for 7 years?
300
Fraction of Senate votes needed to stop a filibuster
What is 3/5?
300
Quorum for the House of Representatives
What is 218?
300
Group created to financially support a political candidate
What is a Political Action Committee?
300
Current House Majority Leader
Who is Eric Cantor?
400
The title of the poisition that assists the majority leader by making certain members are present to vote
What is the whip?
400
This Senate calendar schedules nomination hearings and treaties
What is the Executive Calendar?
400
Committee that meets to work out differences between House and Senate bills on the same topic
What is the conference committee?
400
Government organization that regulates actions of PACs and public interest groups
What is the Federal Election Commission?
400
Current Senate Majority Leader
Who is Harry Reid?
500
This committee decides if major bills should be placed on the voting calendar ahead of other bills
What is the Rules Committee?
500
This senator holds the record for the longest filibuster (over 24 hours)
Who is Strom Thurmond?
500
Fraction of the vote needed in Congress to override a presidential veto
What is 2/3?
500
Three restrictions on a PAC
What is a maximum $5000 donation, collect money from minimum 50 contributors, support at least 5 candidates?
500
Current Senate Minority Leader?
Who is Mitch McConnell?
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