HOUSE OF REPS
SENATE
PEOPLE
COMMITTEES
KEY TERMS
100
The term length for members of the House of Representatives.
What is 2 years
100
Length of a senator's term.
What is 6 years?
100
This person acts according to his or her conscience and the broad interests of the entire society.
Who is a trustee?
100
These are permanent and the most important committees in Congress.
What are Standing Committees?
100
A tactic of unlimited debate used in the Senate to block a vote on a bill.
What is a "filibuster"?
200
The number of members in the House of Representatives.
What is 435?
200
At the present, he not only is Vice-President, but he is the President of the Senate.
Who is Joe Biden?
200
He is the current Speaker of the House of Representatives.
Who is John Boehner?
200
These are formed by the concurrent action of both chambers of Congress and consist of members from both chambers.
What is the joint committee?
200
Another name for "pork" or "bringing home the bacon."
What are "earmarks"?
300
The position that is 2nd in line of presidential succession.
What is the Speaker of the House of Representatives?
300
The amount of senators elected from each state and the total amount.
What is 2 and 100?
300
These are the people represented by a member of the legislature.
Who are constituents?
300
This committee provides procedures by which specific bills can be debated, amended, and considered.
What is the Rules Committee?
300
A policy that enables memberso f Congress to send material through the mail by substitutin their facsimile signature for postage.
What is "franking"?
400
The basis for the number of members of the House of Representatives.
What is the population of the United States?
400
A constitutionally recognized officer of the Senate who presides over the chamber in the absence of the Vice President.
What is the president pro tempore?
400
These people keep communication open between party leaders and the lower ranking party members.
Who are the "whips"?
400
This committee is created for a limited time and special purpose.
What is a select committee?
400
An arrangement in which two or more members of Congress agree in advance to support each other's bill(s).
What is "log rolling"?
500
The majority party in the 112th Congress, 1st Session.
What is the Republican Party?
500
The senator who finished the longest one-man filibuster in the history of the Senate.
Who was Strom Thurmond?
500
A person who hears and investigates complaints by private individuals against public officials or agencies.
What is an "ombudsman"?
500
The committee that deals with the budget (money).
What is the Appropriations Committee?
500
Redrawing boundaries of congressional districts within each state.
What is "redistricting"?
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