He/she is chosen by and from the majority party in the House.
Who is the Speaker of the House?
100
An attempt to "talk a bill to death".
What is a filibuster.
100
Congress has the power to investigate matters of national concern through the establishment of these legislative organizations.
What are standing committees, subcommittees, and select committees?
100
A bill passed to raise money.
What is an appropriation bill?
100
Assistants to the floor leaders in the House and Senate, responsible for monitoring and marshalling votes.
What are party whips?
200
Committee that decides whether and under what conditions the full House will consider a measure.
What is the House Rules Committee?
200
The member of the United States Senate chosen to preside in the absence of the president of the Senate. Usually elected by the Senate and is the longest serving member.
Who is the President pro-tempore?
200
Congress has the power to tax, power to borrow money, power to regulate interstate and foreign trade, power to coin money, power to regulate bankruptcies, etc.
What are the expressed powers of Congress?
200
These panels are where much of the work in Congress takes place.
What are committees?
200
Unwritten custom that provides that most important positions in Congress will be held by those party members with the longest records in Congress.
What is seniority rule?
300
The House has the sole power to accuse or bring charges.
What is impeachment?
300
The third highest ranking official.
Who is majority whip in the Senate (and in the House)?
300
Congress has the expressed power
"to make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers and all the Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof"
What are the implied powers of Congress?
300
A provision added to a popular bill because it is unlikely to succeed to its own.
What is a rider?
300
An investigative tool in which an order is given to a person to appear in court and to produce documents or other requested materials.
What is a subpoena?
400
Where bills having to do with revenues, appropriations, or government property are scheduled in the House.
What is a Union Calendar?
400
Legislative committee composed of members of both the Senate and the House.
What is a joint committee?
400
The President is the commander in chief of the nation's armed forces, but Congress can declare war, raise and support armies, provide and maintain a navy, etc.
What is an example of shared powers between the President and Congress?
400
Chief executive's power to reject a bill passed by a legislature.
What is a veto?
400
Helps legislators be more responsive or better serve the interests of their districts or states.
What is the importance of being assigned to a congressional committee?
500
The second ranking official in the minority party.
Who is the minority party whip in the House (and in the Senate)?
500
A formal condemnation.
What is censure?
500
The implied power to draft Americans into the military?
What is Congress' expressed power to raise armies and a navy?
500
"Little legislatures" where most bills die.
What are standing committees?
500
The Constitution commands that senators and representatives "shall in Cases, except Treason, Felony and Breach of the Peace, be privileged from Arrest during their respective Houses, and in going to and returning from the same..."