Key Terms
Term for Two house
What is Bicameral?
Number of Members in the House of Representatives.
What is 435?
As a congressman, if you vote as your constituents want you to vote, you are voting this way
What is Delegate?
Number of members of the Senate.
What is 100?
The two houses that make up Congress at the federal government level
What are the House of Representatives and the Senate?
to redistribute a district due to changes in population
What is Reapportionment?
Minimum age of a house member.
What is 25?
As a congressman, if you vote along party lines, you are voting
What is Partisan?
Minimum age of a Senator.
What is 30?
The total members of Congress
a citizen count every ten years
What is a census?
The length of term for the House of Representatives.
What is 2 years?
This house is thought to have an easier job to have knowledge of the needs of the constituents?
What is the House of Representatives?
The length of term for a Senator.
What is 6 years?
a way for a Congress to check the veto power of the President.
What is a Veto Override?
to redistribute a district in favor of one political party over another
What is Gerrymandering?
This is the number of years of citizenship for house members.
What is 7?
The Major political party that tends to be more conservative.
What is Republican?
The number of years of citizenship a senator must have.
What is 9?
The period of time in which Congress conducts business
What is a Session?
The area of people and their interests a congressman represents
What are Constituencies?
Your current Congressman.
Who is Tony Wied?
This house may find their area they represent reapportioned due to a change in population
What is the House of Representatives?
The current leader of the Senate.
Who is the Vice President? (JD Vance)
The congressional district you live in.
What is the 8th Congressional district?