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Basics
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Senate
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Wild Card
100
This agreement created a bicameral Congress
What is the Great Compromise?
100
The Speaker of the House is in this place in Presidential Succession
What is third?
100
What is a rule making body that the House has and the Senate does not
What is Rules Committee?
100
Most work is done here.
What is a committee?
100
Excess spending added on to bills to benefit individual Congressional Districts.
What are pork or earmarks?
200
Named after the Congressional Districts in Massachusetts
What is Gerrymandering?
200
435
What is the number of voting member in the House?
200
The Senates nickname
What is the Millionaires Club?
200
sets the policies of operation for the House?
What is the Rules Committee?
200
He was known as the Prince of Pork
Who is Sen. Robert Byrd?
300
538
What is the number of people in Congress?
300
this committee is only in the House.
What is appropriations?
300
They can kill a bill, amend bills, and hurry bills through the process.
What is a standing committee?
400
Introduced by a member of Congress.
What is a bill?
400
This effect favors members who are seeking re-election
What is incumbency?
400
Has a more relaxed set of rules.
What is the Senate?
400
The leader of the Senate.
What is the Majority Leader
400
President Obama as president and the Republicans in charge of Congress.
What is an example of Divided Government?
500
2 years and 6 years.
What is the terms of members of Congress?
500
Joe Cannon
Who was the most powerful Speaker of the House?
500
Acommittee in the House that is not in the Senate
What is Appropriations?
500
Breaks ties on the Senate
What is the Vice President?
500
President Pro Tempore
What is the official chair of the Senate?