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| Question | Answer |
| Bicameral | A legislature consisting of two parts, or houses |
| House of Representatives | The larger body of Congress, has 45 voting members alloted to the states according to population |
| Constituents | A person from a legislator's district |
| Gerrymander | Is an oddly shaped district designed to increase the voting strength of a particular group |
| Senate | A senate has 100 members- 2 from each of the 50 states. |
| Speaker of the house | Members of the majority party choose the speaker at a caucus, or closed meeting |
| Party Wips | Help the floor leaders |
| Standing Committees | Are permanent committees |
| Select Committees | Meet for a limited time until they complete their assigned task |
| Joint Committees | Meet to consider specific issues |
| Seniority System | Consider members preferences, expertise, and loyalty to the party another key factor is seniority, or years of service |
| Expressed Powers | There are 18 separate clauses enumerating different powers specifically given to Congress |
| Implied Powers | They are not stated explicitly in the Constitution |
| Elastic Clause | Because it has allowed Congress to strerch its powers to meet new needs |
| Impeach | House has the sole authority to impeach, or accuse officials of misconduct in office |
| Bills of Attainder | Congress is also banned from passing bills of attainder, or laws that punish a person without a jury trail |
| Ex post facto laws | These are laws that make an act a crime after the act has been committed |
| Franking Privilege | Members of Congress also have low- cost life insurance and the use of a gymnasium, special restaurants, and a medical clinic |
| Pork- Barrel Projects | To understand this term, think of a member of Congress dipping into the "pork barrel" (the federal treasury) and pulling out a piece of "fat" (a federal project for his or her district) |
| Filibuster | One member can speak- holding the floor for hour after hour, delaying a vote until the bill's sponsor withdraws the measure |
| Cloture | (In a legislative assembly) a procedure for ending a debate and taking a vote. |
| Veto | A constitutional right to reject a decision or proposal made by a law-making body. |
| Pocket Veto | An indirect veto of a legislative bill by the president or a governor by retaining the bill unsigned until it is too late for it to be dealt with during the legislative session. |
| President pro tempore | A high-ranking senator of the majority party who presides over the US Senate in the absence of the vice president. |
| US Representive Qualifications | No Person shall be a Representative who shall not have attained to the age of twenty five Years, and been seven Years a Citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected, be an Inhabitant of that State in which he shall be chosen |
| US Senator Qualifications | Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each State, excluding Indians not taxed. |
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