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JEOPARDY #3Ch. 12-15
Committee
Meeting
Making Amends
Fitting the Bill Congressional Session
POT
LUCK
Whachama-
Call-It
100 100 100 100 100 100
200 200 200 200 200 200
300 300 300 300 300 300
400 400 400 400 400 400
500 500 500 500 500 500
Committee Meeting - 100
Where a bill is most likely to be marked up (changed) or
rewritten
Committee Meeting - 100
What is in subcommittee?
Committee Meeting - 200
Irons out differences in House and Senate versions of a bill
Committee Meeting - 200
What is a conference committee?
Committee Meeting - 300
They combine members of both the House and Senate to consider overlapping policy
areas
Committee Meeting - 300
What are joint committees?
Committee Meeting - 400
Unlike a Senate bill, a House bill goes here after a House committee reviews it and
writes its report
Committee Meeting - 400
What is the Rules Committee?
Committee Meeting - 500
A reform which allowed junior members more room at the top, it gave each senator a
seat on at least one key committee
Committee Meeting - 500
What is the Johnson Rule?
Making Amends - 100
Ratified in 1804, it fixed the problem of who gets to be
president, Jefferson or Burr?
Making Amends - 100
What is the 12th Amendment?
Making Amends - 200
Ratified in 1913, it provided for direct election of senators
Making Amends - 200
What is the 17th Amendment?
Making Amends - 300
Ratified in 1961, it gave Washington, D.C. 3 electoral
votes.
Making Amends - 300
What is the 23rd Amendment?
Making Amends - 400
Ratified in1992, it provides that no congressional pay raise
shall go into effect during the term of the Congress which
votes it. Pay raises only take effect AFTER elections!
Making Amends - 400
What is 27th Amendment?
Making Amends - 500
Ratified in 1933, it states that, in the event of the death of the president, the vice president
becomes president, not acting president!
Making Amends - 500
What is the 20th Amendment?
Fitting the Bill - 100
What members of Congress say campaign contributions
guarantee
Fitting the Bill - 100
What is access?
Fitting the Bill - 200
A grouping of members of Congress sharing an interest
or characteristic (Black, Hispanic, Tourism, Sunbelt,
Women’s)
Fitting the Bill - 200
What is a caucus?
Fitting the Bill - 300
A non-germane amendment piggy-backed onto another bill
Fitting the Bill - 300
What is a rider?
Fitting the Bill - 400
To kill a bill by leaving it languishing in committee is to
do this birdlike thing
Fitting the Bill - 400
What is to pigeonhole?
Fitting the Bill - 500
Parliamentary device which allows the House to do
business without a full House quorum
Fitting the Bill - 500
What is convening the Committee of the Whole
House?
Congressional Session - 100
They are the vote counters in the House and the Senate
Congressional Session - 100
Who are the whips?
Congressional Session - 200
The soon not-to-be minority whip of the U.S. Senate
Congressional Session - 200
Who is Trent Lott of MS?
Congressional Session - 300
It’s done on behalf of constituents, usually by the congressman’s or senator’s
staffer in charge of such
Congressional Session - 300
What is casework?
Congressional Session - 400
Special committees created for special purposes
Congressional Session - 400
What are select or ad hoc committees?
Congressional Session - 500
Delegate, trustee, or politico
Congressional Session - 500
What are the 3 roles among which legislative
representatives are torn in the Burkean controversy?
POT LUCK - 100
The Joint Chiefs of Staff advise the president on this type of
matter
POT LUCK - 100
What is military?
POT LUCK - 200
Dick Cheney, Harry Reid, Dick Durbin, Mitch McConnell, and
Trent Lott
POT LUCK - 200
What is the Senate Majority and Minority Leadership?
POT LUCK - 300
Slang term which describes the practice of government
officials quit their jobs to take positions as lobbyists or business consultants
POT LUCK - 300
What is the “revolving door”?
POT LUCK - 400
Nancy Pelosi, Stenny Hoyer, James Clyburn, John Boehner,
And Roy Blunt
POT LUCK - 400
What is the House Leadership?
POT LUCK - 500
Of these, the one a modern president would be MOST likely to appoint as a senior member of
the White House Staff:a. A well-known congressional leaderb. a popular governor from a big state
c. A hard-working, loyal member of his campaign staff
d. The most prominent national leader of the opposition party
e. A White House staffer from the previous president’s administration
POT LUCK - 500
What is CHOICE C: A hard-working, loyal member of his campaign staff
Whachama-Call-it - 100
Unlike states, the federal government hasn’t got one of these which plans for how to pay for long term needs like
infrastructure
Whachama-Call-it - 100
What is a capital budget?
Whachama-Call-it - 200
2 Presidential powers which delay, reduce, or forgive
punishment
Whachama-Call-it - 200
What are any two of these: reprieve, commutation, pardon, and amnesty?
Whachama-Call-it - 300
An amendment placed on a bill precisely because it will be so
distasteful to the bill’s supporters that they will fail the
bill
Whachama-Call-it - 300
What is a “poison pill”?
Whachama-Call-it - 400
The right of congressmen to send mail to consituents at public expense (signature =
stamp!)
Whachama-Call-it - 400
What is the FRANKING PRIVILEGE?
Whachama-Call-it - 500
Slang for trading votes on bills
Whachama-Call-it - 500
What is “logrolling”?
