House of Representatives
The most powerful person in the House (must name title + the name of the person who currently holds this position + their party)
Who is the Speaker of the House who is currently Nancy Pelosi, Democrat?
The most powerful person in the Senate (title, name + party)
Who is the Senate Majority Leader, Charles Schumer, Democrat?
This is a permanent committee focused on a particular policy area.
What is a standing committee?
All bills that raise revenue must originate in this chamber.
What is the House of Represenatives?
These are also known as CMOs. These are an informal organization, like a special interest group within congress and there are no restrictions on who can join.
What are caucuses?
This allows current members of Congress to overwhelmingly win reelection bids.
What is the incumbency advantage? Including franking privileges, name recognition, access to donors, etc.
This is the minimum age to be a Representative
This is the minimum age to be a senator
What is 30
This committee has members of both houses that address long-term issues or programs.
What is a joint committee?
These aren’t explicitly stipulated in the Constitution, but the government assumes these powers are granted to it by inference based on prior Supreme Court decisions.
What are implied powers?
This refers to the drawing of legislative districts to give an advantage to one party.
What is gerrymandering?
Legislation to bring jobs into one's district through public works, military bases, etc.
What is pork-barrel spending?
The number of Representatives in the House
What is 435?
The number of Senators in the Senate
What is 100
This is a temporary committee that handles a particular issue or investigation.
What is a select or special committee?
This is the process by which a U.S. congressional committee or state legislative session amends and rewrites proposed legislation. (Stage of the legislative process in your flowchart)
What is the markup stage?
These are the most informal organization of members in Congress. Members share mutual concerns.
What are coalitions?
This is formal procedure for ending a filibuster.
What is cloture?
This is the part of the Constitution that explains the Legislative Branch.
What is Article I?
The term of a Senator is this many years
What is six?
This committee has House and Senate members who reconcile similar bills.
What is a conference committee?
This enforces federal campaign finance laws, including monitoring donation prohibitions, and limits and oversees public funding for presidential campaigns.
What is the Federal Election Commission?
In this model, members of Congress act as either trustee or delegate based on rational political calculations about who is best served, the constituency or the nation.
What is the Politico Model?
This happens when Rep. A agrees to vote for Rep B's bill if Rep B will agree to vote for Rep. A's bill.
What is log rolling?
What percentage of Representatives are up for re-election every two years?
What is 100%
What percentage of Senators is up every two years?
What is 33%
This committee is responsible for determining how debate will happen when bills are presented to the House of Representatives.
What is the Rules Committee?
Twenty-six states and Washington, D.C. offer this, which means that any voter can request and cast an absentee ballot.
What is a no-excuse absentee/mail ballot?
This addresses the fact that people generally disapprove of the United States Congress as a whole, but support the congressmen from their own congressional districts. It is named after a political scientist.
What is Fenno's Paradox?
This involves spreading voters of a particular type among many districts in order to deny them a sufficiently large voting bloc in any particular district.
What is cracking?
Which part of the House determines if amendments/riders can be added to bills during debate?
What is The Rules Committee?
This person (by title) is the President of the Senate?
Who is the VPOTUS?
What is a lobbyist?
This suggests that the president's party will lose seats during the midterm election due to the fact that more people will be motivated to vote during a presidential election.
What is the surge and decline theory?
A Congressman who votes based on what his constituents want is acting in this capacity. It is one of the models of representation.
What is a delegate?
It requires this many votes to over-ride a veto.
What is 2/3rd of both houses?
Using this, 51% of the House can force a bill to move from a commitee to the House floor for debate?
What is a discharge petition?
This is one power that the Senate has that the House does not, according to the Constitution.
What is ratifying treaties, confirming judges, holding trial for impeached presidents, for ex?
This powerful House committee plays a major role in shaping tax and spending policy.
What is the House Ways and Means Committee?
This is an official whose task is to ensure party discipline in a legislature. This means ensuring that members of the party vote according to the party platform, rather than according to their own individual ideology or the will of their donors or constituents.
Who are whips?
This type of veto occurs when the President simply doesn't sign the bill into law.
What is a pocket veto?
This is the free mailing privilege that members of Congress have.
What is franking?