Vocabulary
The House
The Senate
Making Laws
and the President?
100
Also called the "Elastic Clause" because it stretches to cover as much of what Congress might do
What is the "necessary and proper clause"
100
This is the total number of representatives in the House.
What is 435
100
This is the total number of Senators in the Senate.
What is 100
100
This is a draft of a law.
What is a bill
100
The term for a President is
What is a 4 years
200
holding the Senate floor and making endless speeches so that no action can be taken
What is a filibuster
200
The term for members of the House is this long.
What is two years
200
This is the length of the term for a Senator?
What is six years
200
If a bill passes in the House, it then goes here.
What is the Senate
200
If a president doesn't like a bill he can do this
What is a veto
300
If 3/5th's of the total number of the Senate vote in favor of this, no senator may speak on the measure for more than one hour
What is cloture
300
They have the power to appoint committees, make rules, and manage the legislative process
What is the Speaker of the House
300
In the absence of the vice president, s/he is the formal presiding officer of the Senate
What is the president pro tempore
300
vote taken by a call of the roll to determine whether quorum is present, to establish quorum, or to vote on a question.
What is roll-call vote
300
A presidential directive to an executive agency establishing new policies or indicating how an existing policy is to be carried out.
What is an executive order
400
drawing legislative districts to benefit a political party
What is gerrymandering
400
This person is the presiding officer in the House of Representatives and has the power to recognize members who rise to speak, rule in questions of parlimentary procedure, and appoint members to temporary committees
What is the Speaker of the House
400
A unanimous resolution in the Senate restricting debate and limiting amendments to bills on the floor
What is unanimous consent agreement
400
This is a special committee of members from each chamber that settles the differnces between versions (the House's version and the Senate's)
What is a Conference Committee
400
If Congress has adjourned and the president waits ten days without signing the bill, it is defeated by
What is a pocket veto
500
legislation that provides members of Congress with federal projects and programs for their districts
What is pork barrel legislation
500
This is one of the special jobs that only the House can do.
What is start laws that make people pay taxes? OR What is decide if a government official should be put on trial by the Senate?
500
This is one of the special jobs that the Senate can do.
What is say yes or no to any treaties the president makes? OR What is say yes or no to any people the president recommends for jobs, such as cabinet officers, Supreme Court justices, and ambassadors? OR What is hold a trial for a government official who does something very wrong?
500
supporters of a bill can bring a bill directly to the floor without committee approval when signed by a majority of House members (218) through
What is a discharge petition
500
A statement issued by the president that is intended to modify implementation or ignore altogether provisions of a new law
What is a signing statement
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