Name: ______Hour: _____ Congress Study Guide 1. The United States Congress, which is made up of two houses, is what type of legislature?

2. What are the qualifications for election to the Senate.

3. Who are the majority and minority leaders are assisted by in Congress?

4. In the Senate bills are brought to the floor by whom?

5. The standing committees of each house are controlled by who?

6. What group specializes in a subcategory of its standing committee's responsibility.

7. What committees act as study groups for the House and Senate?

8. Some lawmakers believe what group has too much power.

9. The budget-making work of Congress is coordinated by who?

10. What are the qualifications for election to the House of Representatives.

11. What is the process of setting up new congressional districts after reapportionment called?

12. What are the people in districts represented in Congress called?

13. The presiding officer of the House of Representatives is the ______.

14. The president of the Senate is the ______.

15. A filibuster can be stopped when three-fifths of the Senate votes for ______.

16. What government office is responsible for the Statistical Abstract of the United States.

17. What great center of information contains almost 100 million items?

18. Laws for raising money for the federal government are called ______

19. Proposed laws to authorize spending money are called ______

20. Witnesses who do not tell the truth can be prosecuted for ______

21. What power allows Congress to check on how the executive branch is administering the law?

22. The president's refusal to spend money is called ______

23. In Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution, these powers of Congress are described.

24. What implies that Congress has powers beyond those expressed in the first 17 clauses of Article I, Section 8?

25. Setting the minimum wage comes under this power of Congress.

26. What requires the president to notify Congress when committing military forces?

27. A legal order that a person appears in court or produce requested documents is called a ______

28. Freedom from prosecution for witnesses whose testimony ties them to illegal acts is called ______

29. A good example of the constitutional principle of checks and balances is ______30. Over the years presidents have assumed more responsibility for what financial plan?

31. The president's refusal to spend appropriated funds is called ______

32. Matters requiring the action of both the House and Senate, but on which a law is not needed are called

33. In this process, each bill is given a title and a number.

34. Almost all the important work on tax laws occurs in the ______

35. House members are unable to offer amendments to a bill from the floor when this is adopted.

36. What binds the government to spending for uncontrollables?

37. What political group tends to vote in favor of business.

38. Congress did not follow the president's lead for military action in the Persian Gulf until swayed by

39. Special-interest groups that raise money to help elect lawmakers are called

40. These congressional staffers help constituents with problems.

41. These are a source of federal money and jobs.

42. These bills deal with general matters and apply to the entire nation.

43. These bills deal with individual people or places.

44. The largest portion of the federal government's budget is spent on

45. list some example’s of an entitlement.

46. These committees have the power to cut budgets.

47. Representatives of interest groups that work to influence Congress are called

48. This group tends to favor social-welfare programs.

49. Federal grants and contracts are very important to lawmakers and their districts because they bring in

50. Through public-works bills, Congress appropriates billions of dollars for local projects that are often called Vocabulary Ways and Means elections Social Security Foreign Relations 6 years authority to pass bills of attainder Legislative assisstant regulation of commerce writ of habeas corpus perjury checks and balances public works bill Administrative Assistant Pork Barrell Legislation perjury pigeonholing farm issues taxes programs like Social Security PACs logrolling joint resolutions first reading taxes roll call