House of Representatives
The minimum age for someone to join the House of Representatives
What is 25 years old?
The minimum age for someone to become a Senator
What is 30?
What is $174,000?
A representative of an interest group who contact lawmakers or other government officials directly to influence their policy making
What is a lobbyist?
Government projects grant that primarily benefits a congresspersons’ home district or state
What are pork-barrel projects?
The term length for a House of Representative member
What is 2 years?
The term length for a Senator
What is 6 years?
Right of senators and reps to send job related mail without paying postage
What is franking privilege?
The process that committee staff members keep moving along
What is lawmaking?
Work that a lawmaker does to help constituents with a problem
What is casework?
The number of people within the House of the Representatives
What is 435?
The number of people within the Senate
What is 100?
The four benefits to working for Congress
High salary, free office, parking, and trips to home states
The office that looks into financial matters, reviews spending, and suggests new ways to improve spending
What is the Government Accountability Office?
The basic job of congress
What is represent the people of their states and districts?
The amount of time an individual must be a citizen of the US to be in the House of Representatives
What is 7 years?
The amount of time someone must be a US citizen to be a member of the Senate
What is 9 years?
This is one of the key benefits of working in Congress, allowing individuals to directly influence laws and policies that impact the entire country.
What is making a difference?
This led to the creation of the Government Accountability Office
What is World War I?
The benefits of casework
What is helps them see how executive branches are handling programs, helps them get reelected, and helps citizens deal with federal agencies?
The three jobs of the House of Representatives
What are initiates revenue bills, impeaches federal officials, represents districts?
The three jobs of the senate
What is confirms presidential appointments, ratifies treaties, conduct impeachment trials?
A major benefit to the franking privilege
What is reelection?
The office that estimates or identifies the mount of costs of programs and their effects
What is the Congressional Budget Office?
Things that congress passes every year
What are work bills?