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Question | Answer |
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What is a two house Congress called? | bicameral legislature |
What are the two houses of Congress? | Senate and House of Representatives |
How old do you have to be to run for Senate? | 30 |
How many years must you have been a U.S. citizen to become a member of the Senate? | 9 |
How old do you have to be to be a Representative in the House? | 25 |
How many years must one be a citizen of the U.S. to become a member of the House? | 7 |
Who are the floor leaders of the House and Senate? | Majority and Minority leaders |
Who assists the floor leaders of the House and Senate? | whips |
How is most work of Congress done? | in Committees for efficiency |
What are the permanent committess of Congress called? They continue from one session to the next. | standing committees |
Who controls the permanent committees (standing)of Congress? | the majority party |
What type of committees specialize in a subcategory of a standing committee? | subcommittees |
What type of committees are study groups made of both House and Senate members? | joint committees |
What is the process of setting up new Congressional districts after reapportionment? | redistricting |
What are constituents? | people that the elected official represents |
Who presides in the House and is elected by a caucus of the majority party? | Speaker of the House |
Who is the president of the Senate and when does he/she participate in Senate business? | Vice President- to call meetings to order and vote in a tie |
What is a vote to stop a filibuster? What is the percentage vote needed? | cloture; 60% to stop a filibuster; 40% to allow it to continue |
Who has the power to write the rules for Congress? | the majority party |
Representatives are elected from what? | districts |
Senators are elected from what? | entire state (at large) |
What is the abuse of redistricting where the majority party in charged of redrwing lines either "packs or cracks?" | gerrymandering (packing and cracking) |
Compare the terms of Senate and House. | House is 2 yr terms, Senate has 6 year terms |
What is the main function of Congress? | to make laws |
Who controls the flow of legislation, such as what committee bills go to, if it will be considered, in what order, ect? | majority party |
What is a bill? | proposed law/legislation |
In the past, how have committee chairmen been chosen? | by senority rule: the senior most member of the committee |
What is a closed meeting? | caucus (used to select the Speaker of the House) |
What is a quorum? | the number of Congressmen who must be present in order to take official action (such as vote on a law) |
What is a session and how long are they? | meeting of Congress; 1 year |
What determines reapportionment? | census, taken every 10 years |
How is debate in the House different than that of the Senate? | Senate allows unlilmited debate on legislation while the House limits debate to 5 min. |
Who presides in the Senate when the Vice President is absent? | President Pro Tempore (pro tem) |
What did Strom Thurmond do in 1957? | used a filibuster to block a civil rights law lasting over 24 hours |
Where in the Constituion are the enumerated powers of Congress? | Article I, Section 8 |
In the House, how is a bill introduced? | they are dropped into the wooden box (hopper) at the front of the meeting room |
What are two jobs of the majority leaders of both Houses? | plan the legislative program, steer important bills through their house, |
What was decided in Reynolds V. Sims? | "one person, one vote" that districts should be equal in population |