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Senate
The House of Representatives
The Committee System
Power
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100
The number of people each state gets.
What is two?
100
The thing that the House of Representatives use to divide representatives among states.
What is the Population?
100
The three types of Committees.
What are standing committees, select committees, and joint committees?
100
The two types of powers.
What are Expressed powers and the Implied powers?
100
The age to be a Senator.
What is 30 years old.
200
The qualifications to be in the Senate.
What is 30 years old and living in a state you run for?
200
A thing the Census Bureau and Congress does to alter the seats in the House every 10 years.
What is a population count (Census) on the states?
200
The main issues Joint Committees argue on.
What are Economic, Printing, Taxation, and Library issues?
200
The three major categories of lawmaking powers.
What are Money, Commerce, and Military?
200
The amount of money a Senator or Representative is paid a year.
What is $174,000
300
The amount of time someone in the Senate serves for one term.
What is six years?
300
A district that the Majority party draws out on each state to benefit their party.
What is a Gerrymander?
300
The people that serve on the most favorable/powerful committees.
What are people with a lot of seniority (years of service)?
300
The most important duty of Congress.
What is to make laws?
300
The right of Congress to send job-related mail without paying postage.
What is the Franking Privilege?
400
Difference between the representation of Senate and the House of Representatives.
What is the Senate represents each state, while the House of Representatives represents individual districts?
400
The six people that don't vote on bills.
What are the representatives of the district of Columbia, Island of Puerto Rico, and the four island territories in the Pacific Ocean?
400
Person with the power of deciding when and where a committee meets, which bills should be studied and who will server on each subcommittee.
What is the Chairperson?
400
Powers that are not related to making laws.
What are Nonlegislative Powers?
400
A representative of an interest group who contacts lawmakers or other government officials to influence their policy making.
What are Lobbyists?
500
The amount of people in the majority party of the Senate.
What are 51 Democrats?
500
The Majority party of the House of Representatives.
What is the Democratic party?
500
The person that leads the Minority party of both the House of Representatives and the Senate.
What is the Longest-serving committee member of the minority member.
500
The two steps in Impeaching a president.
What is to have the majority vote in the House, then have the Senate hold a trial?
500
The total amount of women in congress?
What are 90 people?