Definitions
Congress
Senate
House
Had to be listening
100
Made up of two houses.
What is bicameral?
100
This is how many sessions there are in one term of Congress.
What are 2?
100
This is how old a person must be in order to qualify to be a candidate for the Senate?
What is 30 years old?
100
This is how often elections for the House of Representatives are held.
What is every two years?
100
The minimum number of Representatives a State can have is this number.
What is 3? (2 Senators and 1 member of the House of Representatives)
200
The number of years in a Senators term in office.
What is 6 years?
200
The Congress consists of 2 houses in order so that each house can do this to the other.
What is check and balance?
200
This is how many years a person must be a citizen in order to qualify as a candidate for the Senate.
What is 9 years?
200
Representation in the House of Representatives is based on this.
What is a States population?
200
This is how many Representatives there are total in the U.S. Congress.
What are 535 members?
300
To end a meeting of Congress.
What is adjourn?
300
This is how many Senators are serving in the Senate today.
What is 100?
300
This is longer than a session of Congress.
What is a term?
300
Because of the short length of their terms House members are more likely to do this.
What is listen to their constituents'/voters' views?
300
This State has only 3 representatives in the U.S. Congress.
What is Wyoming?
400
This is the leader of the House of Representatives.
What is the Speaker of the House of Representatives?
400
The most important limit on congressional pay raises is the threat of this.
What is voter backlash?
400
This part represents the portion of the Senate that is up for election at any one time.
What is one-third?
400
This is who elects the Speaker of the House of Representatives.
What is the majority party members?
400
This is the Federal Governments practice of spending more money than it takes in each year and borrowing to make up the difference.
What is deficit financing?
500
This means that all of the Senate's seats are never up for election at the same time.
What is a continuous body?
500
The Framers gave Congress the power to issue currency for this reason.
What is to establish a single national system of hard money?
500
Senators are elected differently than those of the House of Representatives, in that, they are appealing to voters which cover this.
What is the State?
500
Qualifications for members of the House of Representatives are: 25 years old, citizenship for 7 years, and this......
What is live in the State from which they are elected?
500
He was the 1st President ever to be impeached.
Who was Andrew Johnson?
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