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Congress 101
History of CQRC
Misc/Fun
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This is the link you give someone to reset their CQ.com login.
100
A list of e-mail addresses or domain names from which an e-mail blocking program or spam filter will allow messages to be received.
What is a white list?
100
A senator is up for re-election every ____ years, and a representative is up for re-election every _____ years.
What is six years and two years?
100
True or False: CQ’s former office was located in Logan Circle.
What is False?
100
These two metro stops are closest to our new office.
What is Farragut North and Farragut West?
200
This person oversees Senate Action Reports.
Who is Ed Pesce?
200
This is a term used to describe bill tracking reports that update automatically without any end user action needed.
What is dynamic?
200
CRS stand for this.
What is Congressional Research Service?
200
These four former companies make up CQ Roll Call.
What is Congressional Quarterly, Gallery Watch, Roll Call, Capitol Advantage, FNS, Political Moneyline, Trend Track, Illumen?
200
These are personal, unmarked offices in the Capitol originally assigned to senior senators, conveniently located near the Senate floor.
What is a hideaway?
300
Someone is looking for a detailed summary of what happened during a mark-up, these two resources are where you would typically point them towards.
What is CQ Committee Coverage and Committee Reports?
300
The acronym API stands for this technical term.
What is Application Programming Interface?
300
This is a bill that needs to be passed every year?
What is an appropriations bill?
300
These two individuals oversee Political Moneyline.
Who are Kent Cooper and Tony Raymond?
300
Today, an empty coffin is buried underneath the US Capitol. It was originally intended for this President to be buried within it.
Who is George Washington?
400
These three different types of documents are found in Hot Docs.
What is Dear Colleague Letters, draft bill text, and GAO documents, etc?
400
True or False: The Converge advocacy app is native and works on iOS, Android and the web.
What is True?
400
This is a senator from New York currently serving in Congress.
Who is Chuck Schumer or Kirsten Gillibrand?
400
CQ’s hotline (at least a few times a year) gets phone calls from men, who accidentally mix up CQ with this other popular consumer publication….
What is GQ?
400
Name a president that once served as a Senator.
Who is Barack Obama?
500
Seven extra resources are included in the Advanced Bill Tracking service but are not included in the Standard, name five.
What is CQ House Action Reports, CQ Senate Action Reports, CQ Member Profiles, CQ Hot Docs, CQ Floor Video, CQ Law Track, CRS Reports?
500
Engage features local data from cities as small as this population size.
What is 25,000 people?
500
These three types of rules come out of the Rules Committee.
What is open, closed, and structured?
500
In the mid-90’s, House Caucus staffers were laid off due to severe budget cuts. CQ opened their doors and hired them. What resulted was this database…
What is House Action Reports?
500
Unlike natural grassroots campaigns which are people-rich and money-poor, this type of campaign tends to be the opposite, well-funded but with little actual support from voters.
What is astroturf campaigns?