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Vocabulary
Vocabulary Part Deux
Particularly Difficult Questions
Easy Questions
Did We Even Cover That?
100
A proposed law
What is a bill
100
Party leader whose job it is to make sure party members vote with party
What is the whip
100
The most orange candidate to ever run for president
Who is Donald Trump
100
What is the percentage of votes needed to override a presidential veto
What is 2/3
100
Is elected by fellow Senate party members
Who Senate Majority Leader
200
talk a bill to death
What is filibuster
200
a vote requiring 3/5 of the senate to end a filibuster
What is cloture
200
If congress adjourns its session within 10 days of submitting a bill to the president and he doesn't sign it.
What is a pocket veto
200
Bills related to revenue must originate in this branch of congress
What is the House
200
A bill that applies to only a certain group of people.
What is private bill
300
highest position in the house
What is Speaker of the House
300
a trip taken by committee members to study the impact of a proposed bill
What is a junket
300
Closed meeting of members of each party in each house
What is party caucus
300
This is how leadership is chosen in Congress.
What is seniority
300
This person presides over the Senate is the President of the Senate is not present.
Who is President Pro-Tempore
400
unrelated attachment to a bill
What is a rider
400
most common committee action utilized to kill a bill
What is to pigeonhole
400
This is the current President Pro-Tempore
Who is Orrin Hatch
400
This Supreme Court case dealt with the commerce clause and interstate commerce. (1824)
What is Gibbons v. Ogden
400
This is a majority of full membership (218) in the House that must be present in order for the House to do business.
What is a quorum
500
a permanent committee
What is a standing committee
500
This term is used to describe the third and final printing of the bill.
What is engrossed
500
The member who heads a certain committee
Who is the committee chairman
500
Current Speaker of the House
Who is Paul Ryan
500
This man led the longest filibuster in Senate history, lasting over 24 hours in 1957.
Who is Strom Thurmond