House & Senate
This chamber has 435 voting members, with representation based on state population?
House of Representatives
A term referring to the group of people that an elected member represents.
What is Constituents (Constituency)
Congress hold this power when dealing with the federal budget, budget deficits, and balancing mandatory & discretionary spending.
Congressional Power is clearly stated in the Constitution. However these powers are not stated, but are expansions of the Enumerated/Expressed Powers.
What are the Implied Powers?
A cooperative domestic task involving the thermal transformation of raw ingredients into consumable products, often requiring precise measurement, timing, and chemical reactions.
What is Cooking?
This chamber has the exclusive power to confirm presidential appointments?
What is the Senate
Political practice of redrawing boundaries to favor one particular political party.
What is Gerrymandering
The practice of members of Congress trying to attach funds for projects to bills that will benefit their constituents.
What is Pork Barrel Spending?
This constitutional clause expands the scope of Congressional powers listed in the Constitution.
What is the Necessary & Proper Clause (Elastic Clause)?
A timed physical endeavor where individuals repeatedly displace their body mass forward using alternating lower limb extension, often across measured distances.
What is Running?
This constitutional article establishes Congress and its powers.
What is Article I (one)
These Are Members of Congress Running For Re-Election?
What are Incumbants?
A model of congressional representation based on what their constituents want.
What is the Delegate Model?
This landmark Supreme Court case established the principle that all congressional districts must be based on the "one man, one vote" standard to ensure equal representation,
What is Baker v. Carr?
A multi-participant coordination exercise in which individuals attempt to transfer a spherical object through a vertical elevated ring using primarily manual dexterity, while adhering to strict movement constraints and time limitations.
What is Basketball?
Most bills can start in either the House or Senate. However these specific bills must originate in the House.
What are Tax/Revenue Bills?
The Senate allows for a political practice called a Filibuster, which can go on, and on, and on; However this can end it.
What is Cloture (Vote)?
This position in the Senate is arguably the most impactful ranking member in all of congress.
What is (Senate) Majority Leader?
The process redistributes House seats among the states following the Census?
What is Reapportionment?
A competitive interaction in which participants use elevated surfaces to redirect a lightweight object over a central barrier, aiming to land it within a confined boundary inaccessible to the opponent.
What is Volleyball?
Due to the size of the House of Representatives this committee was created to instill order in debate:
What is the (House) Rules Committee
Term meaning, when the White House and Congress are controlled by opposed Parties.
What is Divided Government?
Example: Congress holding hearings for review of an executive agency’s activities.
What is Oversight
Congress regulating economic activity between states is an exercise of what enumerated power?
What is the Commerce Power (Clause)?
An individual pursuit in which participants attempt to direct a small projectile into a distant receptacle using a series of controlled, repetitive motions, minimizing total attempts across varied terrain.
What is Golf?