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- 3. Who is the only one allowed to call Congress into special session?
- 5. The Senate's seats are never up for election at the same time.
- 7. How many members are in the House of Representatives?
- 9. How many years do senators serve?
- 10. Lawmakers who owe their first allegiance to their political party.
- 12. Trustees believe that each question they face must be decided on its ______?
- 14. Who favored a bicameral Congress in order that one house might act as a check on the other.
- 16. 15 members of the Senate have been expelled by that body, 1 in 1797 and 14 during the ________?
- 17. Today, ________ and representatives are paid $169,600 a year.
- 18. Gerrymandering based solely on race, however is a violation of which amendment?
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- 1. What are the congressional elections that occur in the nonpresidential years - that is, between presidential elections?
- 2. How old do you have to be to become a Senator?
- 3. What attempts to combine the basic elements of the trustee, delegate, and partisan roles.
- 4. As the nation's population grew, and as the number of states increased, so did the size of the _____.
- 6. The Senate has been called into special session alone how many times?
- 8. How many terms does Congress last?
- 9. Members of the House and Senate also act as ________ of their constituents.
- 11. Over more than 200 years, the House has expelled only ____ members.
- 13. _________ legislature - that is, one made up of two house.
- 15. What did the Senate call Durenberger's conduct?