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This is the length of a House term
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What is 2 years?
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This is the number of members in the House of
Representatives
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What is 435?
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In terms of residency, the Constitution
requires this of House members
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What is living in the state represented?
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This is the term for when distribution of House seats
occurs after each census
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What is reapportionment?
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This city currently has no representation
in the House
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What is Washington D.C.?
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This is the length of a Senate term
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What is 6 years?
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This is the number of years you must be a
citizen in order to run for Senate
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What is 9 years?
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The Senate is called this because all of its seats are never up for reelection at
the same time
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What is a continuous body?
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This is how Senators were chosen before the 17th Amendment
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What are state legislatures?
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The Senate is the equivalent of this in
the British parliament
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What is the House of Lords?
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This is what we call each 2 year period of
Congress
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What is a term?
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This is another word for a 2 house
legislature, such as the U.S. Congress
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What is bicameral?
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An emergency can prompt the president to
call one of these
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What is a special session?
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This is what typically happens in
off-year elections
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What is the president’s party
loses seats?
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Congress keeps its pay high while
preventing public outcry over its pay by
using these
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What are allowances or fringe benefits?
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This is what we call the time it takes to finish the year’s
business
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What is a session?
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This is changing district lines to
benefit one party or group over another
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What is gerrymandering?
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When one person is allowed to represent a
geographic region, this is the name of the
system
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What is single member district?
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This is the act that permanently set the
number of seats in the House of
Representatives
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What is the Reapportionment Act
of 1929?
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This is the number of the current term of
Congress
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What is the 112th Congress?
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This is the number state representing
Arizona’s statehood
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What is 48?
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This Middle Eastern country is the world’s
only theocracy
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What is Iran?
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This actress received an Academy Award for
best actress in 2010 for “The Blindside”
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Who is Sandra Bullock?
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Term used to describe the annual NCAA
Division I basketball tournament ?
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What is “March Madness”
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This is the current U.S. Speaker of the House
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Who is John Boehner (R-Ohio)?