What is the number of individuals in the House of Representatives?
100
6 years
What is the length of a term for a senator?
100
A PERMANENT committee in Congress that overseas bills that deal with certain kinds of issues.
What is a standing committee?
100
Those who work directly for individual senators and representatives.
Who are personal staff members?
200
Population count every ten years in order to assign representation according to population
What is the census?
200
The people in a district the representative represents.
Who are constituents?
200
To steer the party's bills through the Senate
What is the majority leader's main job?
200
A group within a standing committee that specializes in a subcategory of its standing committee's responsibility
What is a subcommittee?
200
Those who work for House and Senate committees.
Who are committee staff members?
300
Zack Space
Who is Knox County's current representative in the House?
300
The current Speaker of the House.
Who is Nancy Pelosi?
300
To stall the legislative process and prevent a vote.
What is a filibuster?
300
A committee of the House and the Senate that usually acts as a study group and reports its findings back to the House and the Senate.
What is a joint committee?
300
A collection of research sources for Congress.
What is the Library of Congress?
400
The means that the political party controlling the state government draws a district's boundaries to gain an advantage in elections.
What is gerrymandering?
400
2 years
What is the length of a term for a representative?
400
The president of the Senate.
Who is the Vice President? (Joe Biden)
400
A TEMPORARY committee formed to study one specific issue and report its findings to the Senate.
What is a select committee?
400
This person makes certain that the lawmaker is well informed about the many bills with which he or she must deal.
What is a legislative assistant?
500
George Voinovich
Who is one of the current senators from Ohio?
500
This committee can move bills ahead quickly, hold them back, or stop them completely.
What is the main task of the House Rules Committee?
500
This person takes the place of the vice president when he is absent from the Senate.
Who is the president pro tempore?
500
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
These people review the financial management of government programs that Congress creates, collect government debts, settle claims, and provide legal service.