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What is the census.
Powers congress has that are not specifically stated in the Constitution.
This allows members of congress to send work related mail to each other without postage.
This is what a president can do if a bill passes Congress.
The House of Representatives recently passed a bill that if passed by congress would force this company to be sold to an American one, or be banned.
What is Tik Tok?
Committee assignments are usually based on what?
The power of approval and removal, impeachment, oversight and investigation, are all examples of this.
People who are hired to influence government decision makers.
What are lobbyists?
These are completely unrelated amendments. Sometimes added to bills to help their constituents,
What are riders?
President Biden gave one of the biggest speeches of his career two weeks ago, this is what it is called.
The people you represent in you district or home state.
What are constituents?
This is what writs of habeas corpus, bills of attainder, and ex post facto laws, all have in common.
What are powers denied to Congress?
What is pork-barrel projects?
Talking a bill to death.
The United States recently dropped 33,000 ready to eat meals for starving refugees here.
What is Gaza?
These are groups of representatives and senators who debate and make decisions on permanent issues. Education, Defense, Budget, are all examples of.
What are standing committees?
Powers given directly to congress in the constitution.
What are expressed powers?
To help your home district or state to deal with the federal government.
These are bills that affect a single group or place.
What are Private Bills
This country is currently going through what some call a civil war, a caribbean country on an island that currently has no formal government.
What is Haiti?
This is the total number of Congressional members
What is 535.
This allows congress to stretch their powers to deal with new issues.
What is the elastic clause.
This is the investigative arm of Congress in financial issues.
What is the General Accounting Office (GAO)
This prevents any person in the Senate to talk for more than an hour, however it must be passed by 3/5 vote.
What is cloture?
This species was believed to be extinct in the Atlantic Ocean but researchers recently confirmed a sighting outside of New England.
What is a Grey Whale?