House
Number of members in the House.
What is 435?
What is 100?
The practice of redrawing congressional districts in a bias manner.
What is Gerrymandering?
The name for permanent committees.
What is a Standing Committee?
This man gained influence with the Czar's wife, and is famous for being hard to kill. (poisoned, shot and drowned).
Who is Rasputin?
This person presides over the house.
What is the Speaker of the House?
This person presides over the Senate. Breaks tie votes.
Who is the VP?
Someone who is already in office
What is an Incumbent?
This group specializes in a specific category.
What is a subcommittee?
This nuclear reactor exploded in Ukraine in 1986, making the area uninhabitable.
What is Chernobyl?
This is the Speaker's top assistant.
Who is the Majority Leader?
The way the Senate brings bills to the floor.
What is unanimous consent?
Practice of stalling vote for a bill.
What is the Filibuster?
Includes both houses of Congress.
What is a Joint Committee?
This Soviet leader was the last one to preside over the USSR before dissolution in 1991. He was in a Pizza Hut commercial.
Who is Mikhail Gorbachev?
These people get their party members to vote along party lines.
What is a Whip (Majority/Minority)?
This person presides over the Senate in the VP's absence.
Who is the President Pro-tempore?
The people a congressman represents.
What is constituents?
A temporary committee to resolve two different versions of a bill.
What is a conference committee?
This barrier in Eastern Europe separated Germany until 1989.
What is the Berlin Wall?
This committee brings bills to the floor, or can hold them back.
What is the Rules Committee?
Number of senators required to pass a bill.
What is 51?
When both sides of the isle cooperate.
What is Bipartisan?
This person is the head of a committee.
What is a chairperson?
This special spy plane was utilized as a replacement for the U-2 during the Cold War.
What is the SR-71 Blackbird?