Unique to the House of Representatives, this committee serves as its "traffic officer", helping the House to direct its flow of major legislation
What is the House Rules Committee?
200
Meetings
What are sessions?
200
A closed meeting
What is a caucus?
200
Term of office for a House member
What is two years?
200
Term of office for a U.S. Senator
What is six years?
300
Members who are already in office
Who are incumbents?
300
The minimum number of members needed for official legislative action
What is a quorum?
300
Title of the leader of the House of Representatives
What is Speaker of the House?
300
The Senate's president
Who is the vice president?
300
A permanent committee in Congress that oversees bills that deal with certain kinds of issues.
What is a standing committee?
400
A vote of formal disapprova
What is censure?
400
To extend debate to prevent a bill from coming to a vote
What is filibuster?
400
Taking place every ten years, the process that determines the number of representatives each state will have in the House of Representatives.
What is reapportionment?
400
Limits debate by allowing each senator only one hour for speaking on a bill, but 60 senators must vote for this.
What is cloture?
400
A temporary joint committee set up when the House and the Senate have passed different versions of the same bill.
What is a conference committee?
500
Drawing congressional district boundaries to give one party an electoral advantage
What is gerrymandering?
500
A system that gives the member of the majority party with the longest uninterrupted service on a particular committee the leadership of that community.
What is the seniority system?
500
Qualifications for the House of Representatives
What are members must be at least 25 years old, be citizens of the United States for a least seven years, and be legal residents of the state that elects them?
500
Qualifications for the U.S. Senate
What are be at least 30 years old, citizens of the United States for 9 years before election, and legal residents of the state they represent.