e house calendars. Calendars- list bills that are up for consideration. 5 different calendars. Union calendar (bills for consideration, house calendar(public bills), private calendar(bills that deal with individual people or places, consent calendar(bills with a unanimous consent to debate out of regular order) , and discharge calendar(Petitions to discharge a bill from committee).Rules committee serves as the traffic officer in the house, helping to direct the flow of major legislation. Quorum- the minimum number of members who must be present to permit a legislative body to take official action. House is led by the Speaker of the house. The senate is composed of 100 members, 2 from every state. To qualify as a senator you must be at least 35 years of age, a resident of the US for 9 years, and a legal resident of the state they represent. In the event that the vice president is unavailable to oversee the senate a pro tempore is elected by the members of the senate, usually the most senior member. A standing committee is a permanent committee in congress that oversees bills that deal with certain kinds of issues. A sub-committee is a group within a standing committee that specialized in a subcategory of it’s standing committees responsibility. A Joint committee is a committee comprised of the house and senate that usually acts as a study group and report its findings back to the house and senate. Select committees study one specific issue and report their findings to the house or senate. Conference committees are temporary committees set up when the house and senate have passed different versions of the same bill. The seniority system gave the member of the majority party with the longest uninterrupted service on a particular committee the leadership of that committee. Congress has two types of staffs, a personal staff and a committee staff. The Personal Staff members work directly for individual senators and representatives. Com...
