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Miscellaneous
100
Number of people who serve in the House of Representatives
What is 435?
100
Minimum age of a senator?
What is 30 years old?
100
These committees are chosen for a specific purpose and have the power to investigate
What are select committees??
100
Process by which citizens of one country become citizens of another
What is naturalization?
200
determines the population of a state every 10 years for purposes of apportionment
What is the census?
200
What percentage of the Senate is elected every two years?
What is 1/3?
200
How many people serve in the Senate?
What is 100?
200
grants the sole right to manufacture, use, or sell an item
What is a patent?
200
An assistant floor leader in the House or Senate - part of their job is to secure party support for legislative measures
What is a whip?
300
These bills must originate in the House
What is a tax bill (revenue bill)?
300
The two senators from Illinois
Who are Durbin and Duckworth?
300
Congresses implied powers come from this
What is the necessary and proper clause?
300
benefit of onstage-free mail for Congress members
What is franking privilege?
300
Legal order for a person to appear and present evidence
What is a subpoena?
400
Minimum Age of a member of the House
What is 25?
400
Who is the official presiding officer of the Senate?
What is the vice-president?
400
What are the 4 ways a president may act on a bill given to him by Congress?
What is sign the bill, veto the bill, allow the bill to become law without signature, and use the pocket veto.
400
the Senate's check on a filibuster
What is cloture?
400
Custom of granting top posts to members with the longest records of service
What is the seniority rule?
500
Current Speaker of the House
Who is Paul Ryan?
500
Who is the current president pro temp ore of the Senate?
Who is Orrin Hatch?
500
the term given for the taking of private property for public use?
What is eminent domain?
500
To suspend business temporarily in a session
What is prorogue?
500
Lying under oath
What is perjury?