Procedures Rules: play bigger role in House (Senate is more informal)

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Procedures Rules: play bigger role in House (Senate is more informal) Filibuster Standing Committees (19 in House, 17 in Senate) Select Committees, Joint Committees, Conference Committees Committee Chairs

Processes Authorization Process Appropriations Process

Staff and Support Agencies Congressional Research Service (CRS) General Accounting Office (GAO) Congressional Budget Office (CBO)

Other activities of Congress: Oversight of executive branch -Investigations, impeachment

Judging the Congress Criticisms: inefficiency, logrolling, distributive tendency, corruption Trust in Congress relatively low

Reforming the Congress? Term limits Campaign finance reform

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