Chapter 12 1 Congress Organizations

Chapter 12. 1 Congress Organizations

• Define: Speaker of the House, President of the Senate, President pro tempore, party caucus, floor leader, majority leader, minority leader, Whip, Committee Chairman, seniority rule, preside, quorum, judicious, jurisdiction. • What are the rules of the house and how long have they been developing? Why do they need these rules? • Why is the senate a continuous body? Why don’t they need senate rules as a result? • What is the state of the Union Message? What is a joint session of congress? • What requires the president to give the state of the union? Who is the message intended for? • What is the most important position in congress? Who is chosen to fill this role? • Where does the Speaker of the House’s power revolve around? • When does the speaker of the house vote on legislation? What

• • In what line of succession is the Speaker of the House? • Who is the president of the Senate? Why? When do they vote? • Why is the speaker of the house more powerful then the president of the senate? • Where does the vice president gain power to influence the senate? • Who is the President pro tempore? Where are they in the line of succession? What do they do? • • • How is congress a political body? Who is the speaker of the House today? (Your textbook is wrong and outdated) What does the Party Caucus do? What is the Policy Committee? Who is in it? What do they

• • What are the Floor Leaders, and what do they do? • What role does the Majority Whip and Minority Whip play? How are they chosen? Who are they? • • Where is the bulk of congresses work performed? • Who chooses a committee Chairman? How does this influence policy? • • • How does Seniority rule impact committee leadership? Who is the Majority Leader and the Minority Leader? Who is more powerful? Why? What is a committee? What is a standing committee? What does it do? What does critics say about the seniority rule system? What do supporters of seniority rule say about the