Senate
House
Committee Work
Miscellaneous
Lobbying
100
The number of members of the Senate.
What is 100?
100
The number of members of the House.
What is 435?
100
The permanent standing committees of Congress?
What are standing committees?
100
Bills that deal with spending.
What are appropriations bills?
100
Many times, lobbyists write these.
What are bills?
200
The minimum age to be eligible to serve in the Senate.
What is 30?
200
The minimum age to be eligible to serve in the House.
What is 25?
200
The Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate from North Dakota.
Who is Heidi Heitkamp?
200
The term for Congressmen leaving office to become lobbyists and then returning to office.
What is the revolving door?
300
The person who directs the Senate, including determining who serves on what committees and what legislation will be pushed.
Who is the Senate Majority Leader?
300
The state with the most members of the House.
What is California?
300
When committees and subcommittees make adjustments to the language of a bill.
What is markup ?
300
The current Speaker of the House/
Who is John Boehner?
300
The industry that spends the most money on lobbying.
What is the banking industry?
400
Stalling tactic in the Senate to prevent a vote on a bill.
What is the filibuster?
400
North Dakota's current member of the House.
Who is Rick Berg?
400
Chairmanship of a committee is usually based on this.
What is seniority ?
400
Congress was able to prohibit discrimination at public accommodations through this clause in the Constitution.
What is the interstate commerce clause?
400
The three aspects for judging the strength of an interest group.
What is money, number of members and leadership?
500
I break a tie in the Senate if the Vice President is not present.
Who is the President Pro Tempore?
500
The House alone has this power to check the power of the president.
What is impeachment?
500
The House committee from which tax bills originate.
What is the Ways and Means Committee?
500
The street on which many lobbyists operate in Washinton.
What is K Street?
500
The most powerful interest group in the United States, which represents the elderly.
What is AARP?
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