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US Congress Flashcards

1
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What is the average age of the house of reps

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57.9

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2
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What is the average of of the senate

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64

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

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101, 9

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4
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What % of the house and senate have at least a bachelors degree

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House - 93.8%
Senate - 99%

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

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36%

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

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6.2%, 2.4%

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What % of congress are women?

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28.46%

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What % of congress are african American? What about nationally

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11.65%, 12%

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

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63, 58, 5

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10
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Overwhelming in 2020, what was the trend for voting and educational level

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College degree- Biden, no college degree - trump

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

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36, 63

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12
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What is the average budget us the us? By how much does this increase when given to congress?

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$4 trillion, 30%

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13
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One of trumps appointees received backlash for something and yet still got voted through. How was it and why did he receive backlash?

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Kavanaugh, received protests for sexual assault accusations

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14
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Give 2 examples of congress using investigation

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Jan 6th committee

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Give an example of congress effectively overseeing the president

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

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

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

17
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What are the requirements for the senate (the upper house)

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30 years old
Resident
Citizen for 9 years

18
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Which section of congress brings impeachment charges? Which holds the trial? How many votes are needed for these?

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

19
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Give an example of when the VP has voted in the event of a tie in the senate. What other implications did this have?

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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

20
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How likely is an incumbent congressman to be re-elected in the house of reps and the Senate?

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H - 95%, S - 85%

21
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What was unusual about the 2022 midterms?

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100% of the senate votes in wee incumbents

22
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Who is Mary peltola? What is unusual about her ?

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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

23
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How many seats in congress are held by the two main parties?

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533-535

24
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What is the most ever spent on a single senate seat

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2020, Georgia, $200 million

25
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What % of the NRA 2020 spending went for the reps. What % what against the dems. Give an example of an attack ad

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

26
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What is the distance between Hawaii and DC.

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5000 miles

27
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How many district offcices were there in Texas. Who did these belong to?

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Senator John cornyx had 7

28
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How emails and letters do members of congress receive every year?

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More than 200 million

29
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Before email congressmen heard from what % of their constituents? Post email?

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

30
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What special about congressmen post that helps incumbents

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

31
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Who is senator pot hole? How many letters did he sent for an election costing how much?

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

32
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Between when and when, house members sent how pieces of mass communication costing how much?

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2009 - 2011, 1.27 billion, $131.5 million

33
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When a vote is taken or a speech made, how much does the number of phone calls from constituents increase?

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2/3

34
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Who does Alaskan of the week

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Sen Dan Sullivan, republican for Alaska

35
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How many earmarks costing how much were added in 2015

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105, 4.2 billion

36
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In 2015, what % of Americans thought congress was doing good/excellent

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11%

37
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In 2014, what % of Americans believed no matter how bad things were, congress could make it worse

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62%

38
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How many non voting members of the house of there?

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

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