Legislative Branch

Qualifications for Congress

100

How old do you have to be in order to become a US Senator?

What is 30

200

You must be a citizen for this long before you can become a member of the House of Representatives?

What is seven years

300

In order to be a member of the Senate you have to live in the ___________________ that you represent

State

400

You must have been a citizen for at least this long in order to be a Senator?

What is 9 years?

500

How old must you be in order to be a Member of the House of Representatives? 

What is 25 years old?

U.S. Congress

100

This is the number of U.S. Senators in each state.

What is 2 senators?

200

What is the number of representatives per state based on?

What is the state's population?

300

This is how many years a representative is elected for.

What is 2 years?

400

This is the month that elections are held for U.S. Congress.

What is November?

500

Name three expressed powers of Congress stated in Article I section 8 of the Constitution? 

Collect Taxes

Print and coin money

declare war

establish post offices

regulate trade

create and maintain a military

Approve an annual budget

Make the Laws

Raise revenue through taxes

Confirm all appointments

Legislative Basics

100

This is the main function of the legislative branch.

What is making laws?

200

This is the name of Virgina's Legislative branch.

What is the General Assembly?

300

What are the two main houses of the U.S. Congress

What are the Senate and the House of Representatives?

400

True or False: Congress has to approve of the President's budget.

What is True?

500

This is the House of Congress that approves of the President's appointments.

What is the U.S. Senate?

How a Bill Becomes a Law

100

Who can officially introduce a bill in Congress?

What is A member of Congress

200

This is the final step to officially make a bill a law.

What is it being signed by the President?

300

This is the group of people that meets to work on the  bills?

What is a committee?

400

After the House debates a bill what happens next?

What is they vote

500

After the House votes on a bill what happens next?

What is they send it to the other House

Randomly Random

100

What month of the year has 28 days?

All of them silly!!!

200

A man who was outside in the rain without an umbrella or hat didn’t get a single hair on his head wet. Why?

He is Bald Silly?

300

What is the name of my dog?

I don't have a dog!!!

400

There is a one story house, everything is pink. Pink kitchen, pink couch, pink wall paper, everything is pink. What color are the stairs? 

What is There are no stairs it is a one story house.  

500

You see a boat filled with people, yet there isn’t a single person on board. How is that possible?

They are married