The length of time a Representative is elected for.
What is 2 Years?
100
The branch with the power to declare war.
What is the Legislative Branch?
100
The length of each term in the Senate.
What is six years?
100
Bills of the exact same wording must pass through both chambers of the Legislature before moving onto this person's desk.
Who is the President.
100
Richard Fenno, a political scientist, categorizes the motivations of congressional representatives as this, the making of good public policy, or power in the congress.
What is reelection?
200
The number of representatives each US Citizen is represented by.
What is one?
200
This is the term given to someone already in office.
What is incumbent?
200
Each state has this many senators.
What is two.
200
If unidentical bills pass in both chambers, the bill goes to this special group comprised of both Senators and Representatives to be reconciled.
What is a Conference Committee?
200
These cannot be carried over from one session of Congress to the next.
What is a bill?
300
This person is elected by the House of Representatives and leads the entire group but must be part of the majority party.
Who is the Speaker of the House?
300
Although the Constitution only gives the power of impeachment to the lower chamber, only this chamber has the Constitutional power to try an impeachment.
What is the Senate?
300
The letter that precedes any bill introduced in the Senate.
What is S?
300
Approximately 10,000 of these are proposed each year.
What are bills?
300
The number of women in the 113th Congress according to CNN.
What is 98?
400
The number of voting Representatives in the House.
What is 435?
400
That article of the Constitution which addresses the powers of the Legislative Branch.
What is Article I?
400
Talk about representation! Senators can literally take the Senate hostage with this Constitutionally granted trick.
What is filibuster?
400
Get a jump on your bill by putting the printed copy into this mahogany box.
What is the Hopper?
400
This U.S. city elects a member to the House of Representatives, however, the elected individual does not have the opportunity to vote in the House.
What is Washington, D.C?
500
This Representative is the enforcer for the less represented party in the House.
What is the Minority Whip?
500
As part of the budget bill, Republicans in Congress are currently refusing to raise this in an attempt to defund the implementation of the Affordable Health Care Act
What is the debt ceiling?
500
He only votes in the case of a tie.
Who is Vice President Joe Biden?
500
After being introduced, bills are referred to these before reading the chamber floor for discussion and voting.
What is a committee?
500
One of the three states to have two female Senators in the 113th Congress. The others are Washington and California.