Term Limits & Roles
This is the length of a term for a U.S. Senator.
What is six years?
This type of bill applies to the entire nation and involves general matters like taxation or farm policy.
What is a public bill?
The term for a governmental system with two lawmaking branches.
What is bicameral?
After the House impeaches a President, this chamber holds the trial.
What is the Senate?
This political party, currently the Republican party in the House, is the one to which more than half of the members belong.
What is the Majority Party?
This is the number of Senators each state gets, regardless of its population.
What is two senators?
This chamber of Congress has the sole power to impeach a President.
Who is the House of Representatives?
This is the formal population count taken by the Census Bureau every ten years.
What is a census?
This is the procedural motion in the Senate that requires a vote to end a filibuster.
What is a cloture?
This is the term for the political party with less than half of the seats in a chamber.
What is the Minority Party?
This is the short term length for a member of the House of Representatives, intended to keep them responsive to the people.
What is 2 years?
These are the five general legislative powers of Congress, according to your unit information.
What are to create, debate, pass laws, control trade, and create tax laws?
These are the people represented by an elected official in a legislative district.
Who are constituents?
The Senate's action of finding a President guilty during an impeachment trial results in this
What is removing the President from office?
This person is the overall leader of the House of Representatives.
What is the Speaker of the House?
As of late 2023, he is the current Speaker of the House.
Who is Mike Johnson (R)?
The Constitution grants the Senate the power to hold a trial to determine if the President should be removed, but this is the formal rejection power held by the President.
What is a veto?
These are the powers of Congress that are directly stated in the Constitution.
What are expressed (or enumerated) powers?
This is the power of the President, which can be overridden by a two-thirds vote in both houses of Congress.
What is a veto?
Members of Congress represent these people, who live in their legislative district.
Who are constituents?
This determines the number of representatives each state gets in the House.
What is the census and the population?
This is a delay tactic in the Senate involving talking for hours to prevent a bill vote.
What is a filibuster?
This clause grants Congress the power to make all laws "necessary and proper" to carry out its stated powers.
What is the Elastic Clause?
The fraction of the Senate required to vote for cloture to end debate on a bill.
What is 3/5ths (or 60) of the members?
Constitutionally, this person presides over the Senate but typically only votes to break a tie.
Who is the Vice President of the United States?