Appropriations
There are this many statues included in the Statuary Hall Collection.
What is 100?
Congressman Calvert was first elected to the U.S. House in this year, marking the beginning of his long tenure.
What is 1992?
Finished in 1869, this engineering project connected the nation from coast to coast.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
This monument was once the tallest structure in the world when completed in 1884.
What is the Washington Monument?
There are this many subcommittees in the Appropriations Committee.
What is 12?
Marbury v. Madison was decided in this year, before the Supreme Court had a dedicated space.
What is 1803?
Congressman Calvert authored legislation that established this online federal employment eligibility verification system.
What is E-Verify?
This 1920 constitutional amendment granted women the right to vote.
What is the 19th Amendment?
This French-born architect designed the original layout of the city with grand avenues and circles.
Who is Pierre L’Enfant?
Article I, Section 9, Clause 7 grants the Committee this power over federal money.
What is the power of the purse?
Named in recognition of enslaved labor, this underground area welcomes Capitol visitors today.
What is Emancipation Hall?
Congressman Calvert co‑chairs this caucus dedicated to raising awareness and funding research for a progressive neurological disease.
What is the ALS Caucus?
Ratified in 1868, this amendment guaranteed citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the U.S.
What is the 14th Amendment?
This theater is where Abraham Lincoln was assassinated in 1865.
What is Ford’s Theatre?
These types of bills provide additional funding outside the regular cycle, often for emergencies.
What are supplementals?
The original Capitol dome was covered in this material before being later replaced with cast iron.
What is copper?
In 2026, Calvert introduced this act, mandating minimum prison sentences for individuals convicted of large‑scale federal fraud.
What is the Zero Tolerance for Fraudsters Act (H.R. 8951)?
This 1954 Supreme Court decision ended legal segregation in public schools.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
This year marks the official founding of Washington, D.C. as the national capital.
What is 1790?
These short-term measures are passed when regular appropriations bills aren’t finished by October 1 to keep the government operating.
What are continuing resolutions?
During the War of 1812, British troops burned the Capitol, requiring Congress to meet at this temporary building from 1815 to 1819.
What is the Old Brick Capitol?
In 2000, Calvert’s interagency bill formed the first federal committee focused on finding alternatives to this controversial practice.
What is animal testing? (Interagency Coordinating Committee on the Validation of Alternative Methods (ICCVAM))
Established in 1872, this was the first national park in the world.
What is Yellowstone?
FINAL JEOPARDY: Supreme Court Cases
This 1896 decision upheld “separate but equal,” later overturned mid‑20th century.