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1 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

2 Processes Authorization Process Appropriations Process

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

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

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

6 Reforming the Congress?
Term limits Campaign finance reform

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