CONGRESS REVIEW
1. What is the filibuster?
2. What is the cloture motion?
3. Why do Congressional incumbents enjoy such a large electoral advantage?
4. What is reapportionment? Who does it?
5. Who does redistricting?
6. What is gerrymandering?…malapportionment?
7. What is a majority-minority district?
8. What was the intent of the framers in creating a bicameral Congress?
9. What are standing committees? (significance?)
10. …representation in the House? (how elected? Based upon?)
11. Senate (how elected originally?…today?….why change?)
12. Powers of Congress (See Article I of Constitution)
13. What is the War Powers Act (1973)….significance?
14. Process for selecting Committee chairs?
15. How do Committee assignments work?
16. Debate in the House v. debate in the Senate
17. Amendments on bills in House v. Senate
18. What is the discharge petition?
19. Examples of checks and balances
20. What is the purpose of a“conference committee”?
21. Standing, Select, Joint committees
22. What is the Budget and Impoundment Act
23. What is the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act
24. What is the trend regarding minorities and women in Congress since the
1990s?
25. State three functions of Committees
26. What are the three exclusive committees in the House? (functions of each)
27. What is the franking privilege?
28. …powers of the Senate but not of the House
29. Powers of the House, not Senate
30. Types of issues Congress will defer to the President on
31. What is pork barrel legislation?
32. What is logrolling?