How Congress is Organized
These are the qualifications of office for members of the House of Representatives. Name one.
What are minimum age of 25, U.S. citizen for at least 7 years and/or resident of the state they are representing?
The leader of the majority party in each house of Congress.
What is the majority leader?
What are Expressed Powers?
To set a congressional bill aside in committee without considering it.
What is Pigeonhole?
This is the term for a member of the House of Representatives.
What is 2 years?
A Republican or Democrat in each house of Congress who tries to persuade party members to vote together on issues.
What is Party Whip?
To accuse a government official of wrongdoing.
What is Impeach?
A tactic for defeating a bill in the Senate by talking until the bill's sponsor withdraw's it.
What is Filibuster?
Having two legislative houses.
What is Bicameral?
A permanent committee of Congress that focuses on a particular area.
Funds reserved for a specific use.
What are Appropriations?
A procedure used in the Senate to limit debate on a bill.
What is Cloture?
Dividing a state into odd shaped election districts for political reasons.
What is gerrymandering?
A system that gives the most desirable committee assignments to members of Congress who have served the longest.
What is Seniority System?
These are Congress's expressed powers.
What is collecting taxes, borrowing money, regulating commerce, US postal system, etc.
The president's power to kill a bill.
This is a person from a legislator's district.
These are the three types of congressional committees.
What are Standing, Joint and Select Committees?
These are the three basic limits to congressional powers. (Name one)
What is the congress may not tax exports, tax interstate commerce, and/or may not favor one state over another.
The three methods of voting on a bill.
What are Voice Vote, Roll-Call Vote, and Standing Vote?