Congress: Representation

Question 1

What are the three types of representation?

Answer 1

Constituency
Party
Functional

Question 2

What is an example of constituency rep?

Answer 2

Cantor (R) Speaker of the house lost his primary in Virginia 2014 to a Tea Party member as he did not speak enough about Obama’s ‘bad’ policies.

Question 3

How many members are not Democrats or Republicans in 17th Congress?

Answer 3

2

Question 4

How is Umbrella Politics presented in the democrat party?

Answer 4

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY 14th district) v Joe Manchin (Senator)

Question 5

What is the makeup of 17th Congress for women?

Answer 5

28%

Question 6

What’s an example of a caucus?

Answer 6

Congressional Women’s Caucus (127)
Congressional Black Caucus (56)

Question 7

What are the women’ caucus campaigning about?

Answer 7

High rate of maternal morality particularly for WOC
Maternal mental health

Question 8

What is constituency rep?

Answer 8

Representing the needs of the constituents
Use of primaries means the public decide who will represent them at each election, not the party itself.

Question 9

What is functional rep?

Answer 9

Representing the social or economic groups through membership in congress.

Question 10

What % if 17th congress are ethnic minorities?

Answer 10

23%
at its most diverse point

Question 11

What statistics show Lobbying is an issue?

Answer 11

• Corporations spend about $2.6bil on lobbying expenditures ($2mil more than the cost of funding congress overall).
• Out of the top 100 organisations that spend the most on lobbying, 95 consistently represented business.