House and Senate
This chamber has 435 members.
What is the House?
This is the power to collect revenue to fund the government.
A. Commerce Powers
B. Coining Powers
C. Taxing Powers
D. Borrowing Powers
What is the taxing power?
This person either signs a bill into law or vetoes it.
A. Speaker of the House
B. President Pro Tempore
C. President of the United States
D. President of the Senate
Who is the President of the United States?
One of these is the national legislative branch, while the other is what the branch makes/writes.
A. General Assembly/Interpretations
B. Congress/Executive Orders
C. Congress/Bills
D. General Assembly/Bills
What is Congress and bills/laws?
This is the name of our federal legislative branch.
A. Congress
B. General Assembly
C. City Council
D. Board of Aldermen
What is Congress?
This chamber holds the power of impeachment.
A. House of Representatives
B. Senate
C. Supreme Court
D. President
What is the House?
This is the power that gives Congress a monopoly on creating, distributing, and destroying money.
What is the coining power?
Most bills die during this step of the process.
A. Committee
B. Floor Vote
C. Filibuster
D. Conference Committee
What is committees?
This is the relationship between filibuster and cloture.
What is that cloture is the process to end a filibuster?
The Connecticut Compromise settled a debate between these two types of states.
A. Large/Small States
B. Democratic/Republican States
C. Slave/Free States
D. Religious/Secular States
What is large and small states?
This is the number you would have if you added the term lengths of a House and a Senate member together.
A. 4
B. 6
C. 8
D. 10
What is 8?
The Commerce power allows for Congress to regulate this type of trade.
Choose all that are correct:
1. Intrastate
2. Interstate
3. Foreign
What is interstate and/or foreign?
A stalling tactic in the Senate used to delay progress on a bill.
What is a filibuster?
One of these is the permanent sub-units in Congress, while other is those who lead those sub-units.
A. Senators/Representatives
B. Strict Constructionist/Liberal Constructionists
C. Bills/Oversight Function
D. Standing Committees/Committee Chairmen
What are standing committees and committee chairmen?
We do this every ten years to count the population change.
What is the census?
What are:
Less members
Longer terms
Continuous Body
More responsibilities
Higher qualifications
The monetary limit the Constitution sets on how much Congress can borrow.
A. $2.5 million
B. $10 million
C. $2.5 billion
D. $2.5 trillion
E. There is no limit
There is no limit
Choose which bolded word is incorrect, and tell me what to replace it with!
"Once a bill passes both chambers, it then proceeds to the Joint Committee, where the language of the bills are matched before going back through the House and the Senate for final passage.
What is joint committee, replace by conference committee?
One of these is also known as the Elastic Clause, while the other prefers if that clause is used only when absolutely necessary.
Necessary and Proper Clause/Implied Powers and Strict constructionist
Match these!
1. Initiative
2. Referendum
3. Recall
A. Procedure whereby a certain number of voters may, by petition, propose a law or constitutional amendment and have it submitted to the voters
B. Procedure for submitting to popular vote measures passed by the legislature or proposed amendments to a state constitution
C. Procedure for submitting to popular vote the removal of officials from office before the end of their term
A, B, C
These are the ages one must be no lower than to serve in the House and Senate.
What are 25 and 30?
This power allows the government to purchase at market value private land for public purposes.
What is eminent domain?
While in committee, doing this will ensure that a bill does not move forward.
What is pigeonholing?
This is the relationship between the Vice President and the President Pro Tempore.
Who is the President of the Senate, and who replaces them when they are absent?
This is the name of our state legislative branch.
What is the General Assembly?