House of Representatives
In order to be a representative you must be this age.
What is 25?
In order to be a senator, you must be this many years old.
What is 30?
The Constitution gives Congress this many expressed powers?
What is 27?
These are smaller groups within each house to handle bills of a certain topic.
What are committees?
These people are not members of Congress, but are chosen to be political strategists for their party.
What are floor leaders?
The Reapportionment Act of 1929 said that the House of Representatives would be fixed at this many seats, and gave the Census bureau the ability to distribute seats amongst states.
The Senate has this many seats per state.
What is 2?
These are powers that belong to all sovereign nations.
What are inherent powers?
This is when a committee refuses to report a bill.
What is pigeon-holing?
This is when a Congressperson reruns for the same office for another term. These tend to have a higher chance of winning election.
What is incumbency?
The House of Representative terms are this many years.
What is 2 years?
The Senate's terms last for this many years.
What is 6?
These are powers that are not explicitly states, but considered necessary to carry out the Congress's expressed powers.
What are implied powers?
This person is the most powerful person in Congress.
Who is speaker of the house?
This is the process of redrawing district lines to create "safe" districts for your party.
What is gerrymandering?
This is when the House of Representatives want to bypass the restrictive rules on debate, so they decide to become a committee.
What is committee of the whole?
Before the 17th amendment, Senators were elected by these. Now, they are elected by popular vote.
What are state legislatures?
This clause was used to justify the Civil Rights Act and Desegregation.
What is the Commerce act?
This person is the president of the senate.
Who is the vice president?
This is when a senator talks about a bill until the senate agrees to their demands.
What is a filibuster?
Describe 1 of the 2 methods that politicians use to gerrymander a district.
1. Break up an area with a large portion of the opposite party so they have no chance of winning any districts.
2. Concentrating the opposite party in one district so they don't have to compete with them in the other districts.
The Senate is known as this.
What is the upper house?
List at least 5 of the powers that the Constitution gives to Congress.
Regulate Commerce, taxes, borrowing, post office, declaring war, raising armies, etc.
This is a closed meeting of party members.
What is a party caucus?
Because the president has this power, Congressmen want to keep him in their good graces so that their bills become laws.
What is veto power?