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Organization
Powers
Qualifications
Privileges
Bill
100
This is a two-body congress
What is Bicameral?
100
Enumerated powers listed in the constitution
What is Express powers?
100
To run for senator you must be at least this age
What is 30?
100
Job-related free postsge
What is franking privilege?
100
A written idea or proposal
What is a bill?
200
Total number of members of both houses.
What is 535?
200
Powers reserved to the states
What is Reserved powers?
200
To run for representative you must be at least this age
What is 25?
200
government projects and grants that primarily benefit the home district
What are pork-barrel projects?
200
The two main categories of bills
What are private and public bills?
300
Each term of Congress starts on this date
What is the 3rd of January of odd-numbered years?
300
Powers not explicitly listed or written in the constitution
What is implied or elastic clause powers?
300
To run for this position, a person must be a resident and citizen of that state for nine years
What is Senator?
300
work that a lawmaker does to help constituents with a problem.
What is casework?
300
These are formal statements expressing lawmakers' opinions or decisions.
What are joint resolutions?
400
January 3, 2013
What is the 113th Congress?
400
Powers shared by the state and federal governments.
What are concurrent powers?
400
Seven years are the required years of residency and citizenship in a state for this position
What is Representative?
400
The annual salary of members of congress
What is $174,000?
400
This is talking a bill to death.
What is filibuster?
500
Permanent committees held in both houses
What are standing committees?
500
A court order that requires the police to explain why they are holding a person
What is writ of harbeas corpus?
500
This is a profession nearly half or most congress members have or have had before running for congress
What is lawyer?
500
The Constitution grants Congress this
What is immunity or legal protection in certain situations?
500
The ending of a filibuster by three-fifths vote
What is cloture