US Congress

Question 1

What is the average age of the house of reps

Answer 1

58

Question 2

What is the average of of the senate

Answer 2

64

Question 3

How many members of congress have worked in education? How many are engineers?

Answer 3

101, 9

Question 4

What % of the house and senate have at least a bachelors degree

Answer 4

House - 94%
Senate - 99%

Question 5

What % of Americans nationally have at least a bachelors degree?

Answer 5

36%

Question 6

What % of congress is Jewish, what % of the nation is Jewish

Answer 6

6.2%, 2.4%

Question 7

What % of congress are women?

Answer 7

28.5%

Question 8

What % of congress are african American? What about nationally

Answer 8

11.65%, 12%

Question 9

How many AAs are in congress? How many of these are reps, how many are dems

Answer 9

63, 58, 5

Question 10

Overwhelming in 2020, what was the trend for voting and educational level

Answer 10

College degree- Biden, no college degree - trump

Question 11

In the 107th congress how many AAs were there? How many in 118th congress?

Answer 11

36, 63

Question 12

What is the average budget us the us? By how much does this increase when given to congress?

Answer 12

$4 trillion, 30%

Question 13

One of trumps appointees received backlash for something and yet still got voted through. How was it and why did he receive backlash?

Answer 13

Kavanaugh, received protests for sexual assault accusations

Question 14

Give 2 examples of congress using investigation

Answer 14

Jan 6th committee

Question 15

Give an example of congress effectively overseeing the president

Answer 15

Trumps wall, he campaigned heavily for it and yet it was rejected by congress

Question 16

What are the requirements for the house of reps (the lower house)

Answer 16

25 yrs old
Resident of US (most states have turned this into state resident)
Citizen for 7 years

Question 17

What are the requirements for the senate (the upper house)

Answer 17

30 years old
Resident
Citizen for 9 years

Question 18

Which section of congress brings impeachment charges? Which holds the trial? How many votes are needed for these?

Answer 18

House of reps - bring charges, simple majority (50%+1) needed
Senate - holds trial (2/3 needed be found guilty)

Question 19

Give an example of when the VP has voted in the event of a tie in the senate. What other implications did this have?

Answer 19

Mike Pence and Betsy De Vos - trump wanted to make put her in his cabinet in charge of education but she had no previous experience
- never before happened on an appt vote, usually acts as a deterrent, trump should’ve researched

Question 20

How likely is an incumbent congressman to be re-elected in the house of reps and the Senate?

Answer 20

H - 95%, S - 85%

Question 21

What was unusual about the 2022 midterms?

Answer 21

100% of the senate votes in wee incumbents

Question 22

Who is Mary peltola? What is unusual about her ?

Answer 22

A democratic member of congress for Alaska, its unusual that she is pro gun given she is a democrat but not that crazy since she’s from Alaska

Question 23

How many seats in congress are held by the two main parties?

Answer 23

533-535

Question 24

What is the most ever spent on a single senate seat

Answer 24

2020, Georgia, $200 million

Question 25

What % of the NRA 2020 spending went for the reps. What % what against the dems. Give an example of an attack ad

Answer 25

60%, 40%, NRA against Joe manchin who they rated D

Question 26

What is the distance between Hawaii and DC.

Answer 26

5000 miles

Question 27

How many district offcices were there in Texas. Who did these belong to?

Answer 27

Senator John cornyx had 7

Question 28

How emails and letters do members of congress receive every year?

Answer 28

More than 200 million

Question 29

Before email congressmen heard from what % of their constituents? Post email?

Answer 29

2% 4-5% - may have doubled but still teensy tiny

Question 30

What special about congressmen post that helps incumbents

Answer 30

Free franking - no charge, sent from us govt Goes up in re-election time

Question 31

Who is senator pot hole? How many letters did he sent for an election costing how much?

Answer 31

Sen D’amato, spent 17 million, costing $2.65 million

Question 32

Between when and when, house members sent how pieces of mass communication costing how much?

Answer 32

2009 - 2011, 1.27 billion, $131.5 million

Question 33

When a vote is taken or a speech made, how much does the number of phone calls from constituents increase?

Answer 33

2/3

Question 34

Who does Alaskan of the week

Answer 34

Sen Dan Sullivan, republican for Alaska

Question 35

How many earmarks costing how much were added in 2015

Answer 35

105, 4.2 billion

Question 36

In 2015, what % of Americans thought congress was doing good/excellent

Answer 36

11%

Question 37

In 2014, what % of Americans believed no matter how bad things were, congress could make it worse

Answer 37

62%

Question 38

How many non voting members of the house of there?

Answer 38

6, they rep Puerto Rico, American Samoa, the Northern Mariana Islands, District of Columbia, US Virgin Islands and Guam