Senate
Each state has this many senators
What are two senators?
The number of voting members in the House
What is 437?
Presiding officer in the House of Representatives?
Who is the Speaker of the House?
Type of legislature we have in America
What is a bicameral legislative?
Difference between expressed and implied powers
What is expressed powers are specifically stated in the Constitution and implied powers aren't specifically stated?
You have to be this old to become a senator
What is 30 years old?
You have to be this old to be a representative
What is 25?
Serves as presiding officer of Senate in absence of Vice President
What is the president pro tempore?
When Congress assembles to conduct business
What is a session?
Name two expressed powers of Congress
What is power to tax, borrow money, distribute money, regulate value of money, declare war, raise a military, and Copyrights and patents
The current senators for Georgia
Who is David Perdue and Johnny Isakson?
Determines how many representatives each state gets
What is population of state?
A stalling attempt to "talk the bill to death"
What is a filibuster?
Permanent panels that look through all bills sent to them
What are standing committees
Two presidents that have been impeached
Who are Andrew Johnson and Bill Clinton?
The length of a term for a senator
What is 6 years?
The length of a term for a Representative
What is 2 years?
The four ways the President could handle a bill
What are signing the bill making it into a law, let it site for 10 days without signing making it a law, veto, and pocket veto?
The start date of each Congressional term
What is January 3rd of every odd year?
Amendment that gives the House of Representatives power to elect president in case of no majority vote getter
What is the 12th Amendment?
The number of senators up for election every two years
What is 1/3?
Permanently set the number of how many members could be in the House of Representatives
What is the reapportionment act?
With a vote of___ the Congress can overrule a Presidents veto
What is a 2/3 vote?
Section of the Constitution that lists Congress' expressed powers
What is Article I?
Interpretation of Constitution where federal government has expressed powers and very few implied powers
What is a strict constitution?