Structure of Congress
The number of members for the House of Representatives and the Senate
What is impeachment?
The focuses of economies for the North and South.
What is industry for the North, agriculture for the South?
A filibuster.
What is when a Senator attempts to hold up a bill from being passed.
True or false: The House and Senate must pass the same exact version of the bill.
True
The age you must be to serve in each chamber of Congress
What is 25 for the House of Representatives, and 30 for the Senate?
What is tax (appropriation bills)?
The climate of the North and South.
What is warm summers and tough winters for the North, hot summers and mild winters in the South.
Rules of the filibuster.
What is you must stay standing the whole time, can only drink water or milk, no eating, cannot leave to use the bathroom, must talk the whole time.
What percentage of bills die in committee?
What is 90%?
The number of years you must be a citizen to serve in each chamber of Congress.
What is 7 for the House of Representatives, and 9 for the Senate.
These are not binding until ratified by the Senate.
What is Treaties?
The geography of the North and South.
The way a senator can use the bathroom during a filibuster.
What is by having an ally ask a question the entire time they're gone?
The actions a president can take when he gets the bill.
What is pass it or veto it?
The number of years you serve if elected to each chamber of Congress.
The senate must approve these decisions the president makes (please also give the definition).
What is appointments, or when the president gives someone a job?
The reason the North had a large amount of workers.
What is many immigrants?
The longest filibuster in history.
What is 25 hours and five minutes?
The reason committees are so important to the law-making process.
What is that they speed up the process since they are the first ones to see it and decide whether it is worth being seen by the entire chamber.
The leader of each chamber of Congress.
What is the Speaker of the House for the House of Representatives, and Vice President for the Senate.
The person who takes over if the vice president cannot be in the Senate.
Explain why the South focused more on slavery than the North.
The senator who did the longest filibuster in history.
What is Cory Booker?
What is a committee made up of members from both the House and Senate who make a compromise bill both chambers can agree on?