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**Phase I: Introduction to e-Congress 2011 ** **Study Guide ** 1) Congress is the law-making, or ____Legislative _________________ branch of government.
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2) The U.S. Congress has two houses, the Senate and the ____house of representatives____________________________. Another word for a two house legislature is _____bicarmel legistlature___________.

3) The House of Representatives has __435___ members. There are ___10__ representatives from my state.
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4) This is the ___112__th session of Congress.

5) The Speaker of the House of Representatives is elected by the __political___________ party.
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6) The _____California_________ Party has the most seats in the House of Representatives.

7) The donkey in the political cartoon on this page represents the ___democratic____________ Party.

8) What is the cartoonist’s point about political parties in this session of Congress? That each one represents the political party with the republican being the stronger one depited as a elephant with the democrats as the donkey

9) Permanent committees in Congress are also called ___Standing ______________ committees.
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 15px;">10) The people that an elected official represents are called _____comitee______________.
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 15px;">11) Your personal beliefs about government are known as your __political ideology ________________ ___________________.
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 15px;">12) Representatives have many responsibilities. Two examples are: <span style="font-family: 'times new roman','serif'; font-size: 15px;"> a)office work
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<span style="font-family: 'times new roman','serif'; font-size: 15px;"> b)be present for voters and hearings

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 15px;">13) Members of Congress are less diverse, more likely to be male, richer, older and better educated than the rest of the United States. Should this concern us? Why or why not? <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 15px;">Yes it should concern us as a whole since it shows clearly to the public that American politics are being controlled by a small minority of elites who would rather keep the power and wealth concentrated among themselves
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 15px;">14) A bill is a _____proposed law_____________ ________________.
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 15px;">15) Most bills never make it out of ___full comitee____________________.
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 15px;">16) A change to a bill is also called an ______amendment_________________.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 15px;">17) To become law, a bill must be approved by the House of Representatives, the _______members of the senate____________, and the <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 15px;">________________president ___.
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