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Lines Drawn!
Committed to Committees
If con is the opposite of pro, then the opposite of "Progress" is...
Potent Potables
Potpourri
100
A legislative district from which only one representative is chosen
What is a Single-Member district?
100
Permanent and more powerful than other types of committees
What is Standing Committee?
100
Presides over the House of Representatives
What is the Speaker of the House?
100
A temporary alliance of several groups
What is a Coalition?
100
Free postage used by the members of Congress
What is Franking Privilege?
200
The Great Compromise at the Constitutional Convention lead to this
What is a Bicameral Congress?
200
Limited purpose; temporary
What is Select Committee?
200
Unnecessary trips taken by members of Congress
What is a Junket?
200
In the House and Senate, is the leader of the party with the most members
What is the Majority Leader?
200
Mainly an honorary position given to the most senior member of the Senate's majority party
What is president "pro tempore"
300
The redrawing of district boundaries to favor a particular party or group of people.
What is Gerrymandering?
300
Includes both House and Senate members
What is Joint Committee?
300
A more formal way of preventing or delaying the passage of a bill
What is a Filibuster?
300
In the House and Senate, the leader of the party with the second most members
What is the Minority Leader?
300
A geographical area in a state represented by a House member
What is a Congressional district?
400
An official count of a country's population
What is a Census?
400
Temporary; is drawn from both chambers to work out a compromise agreement on a bill
What is Conference Committee?
400
A motion to stop debate
What is a Cloture?
400
Pushed for by people who dislike the notion of "career politicians"
What are Term Limits?
400
This amendment changed the method of the election of Senators
What is the Seventeenth Amendment?
500
All the members of a party within a house of Congress
What is a Caucus?
500
Within committees, has significant power
What is Chair?
500
Automatic veto of a bill if the President leaves it unsigned for ten days during a congressional adjournment
What is a Pocket Veto?
500
The current Speaker of the House of Representatives
What is John Boehner?
500
The process of redrawing congressional district lines to reflect population shifts
What is Reapportionment?