House Senate Basics 1 Basics 2 Grab Bag
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This is the length of a House term
What is 2 years?
This is the number of members in the House of Representatives
What is 435?
In terms of residency, the Constitution requires this of House members
What is living in the state represented?
This is the term for when distribution of House seats occurs after each census
What is reapportionment?
This U. S. city currently has no representation in the House
What is Washington D. C. ?
This is the length of a Senate term
What is 6 years?
This is the number of years you must be a citizen in order to run for Senate
What is 9 years?
The Senate is called this because all of its seats are never up for reelection at the same time
What is a continuous body?
This is how Senators were chosen before th the 17 Amendment
What are state legislatures?
The Senate is the equivalent of this in the British parliament
What is the House of Lords?
This is what we call each 2 year period of Congress
What is a term?
This is another word for a 2 house legislature, such as the U. S. Congress
What is bicameral?
An emergency can prompt the president to call one of these
What is a special session?
This is what typically happens in off-year elections
What is the president’s party loses seats?
Congress keeps its pay high while preventing public outcry over its pay by using these
What are allowances or fringe benefits?
This is what we call the time it takes to finish the year’s business
What is a session?
This is changing district lines to benefit one party or group over another
What is gerrymandering?
When one person is allowed to represent a geographic region, this is the name of the system
What is single member district?
This is the act that permanently set the number of seats in the House of Representatives
What is the Reapportionment Act of 1929?
This is the number of the current term of Congress
th 111 What is the Congress?
These are the 3 Quarterbacks to have started a game for ASU this year
Who are Danny Sullivan, Brock Osweiler, and Samson Szacaczy?
This country is the world’s largest theocracy
What is Iran?
This actor has appeared in “The Departed, ” “Malibu’s Most Wanted, ” and “Harold and Kumar go to White Castle”
Who is Anthony Anderson?
“You just call out my name, and you know wherever I am, I’ll come running to” this
What is “to see you again? ”
This war was fought and won while James K. Polk was president
What is the Mexican. American War?
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