Congress in Action
This person leads the House of Representatives
Who is the Speaker of the House?
This is the term of office for a member of the House of Representatives
What is 2 years?
The House is often referred to as this
What is the Lower House?
These powers are not listed in Article 1 but are needed for Congress to fulfill its enumerated powers
What are implied powers?
This happens every 10 years to determine the population of the US
What is the census?
This group of members review bills and hold hearings before the full chamber votes.
What is a Congressional Committee?
This is the term of office for a Senator
What is 6 years
The Senate is often referred to as this
What is the Upper House?
This person is the person is the leader of the Senate who serves in both the Legislative Branch and the Executive Branch
What is the Vice President?
Article 1, Section 10 does this
What is put limits on the powers of states?
This action affecting government officials must be taken only by the House of Representatives
What is impeach?
This is how old a member of the House must be and a member of the Senate
What is 25 and 30 years old?
When there is a tie vote in the Senate, this may happen
What is the Vice President may vote to break the tie?
These implied powers are created by this
What is the Necessary and Proper Clause or the Elastic Clause?
These are 3 powers that denied to the states and are reserved to the Federal Government
What is coin money, impose duties and declare war
The framers placed the legislative branch as the first article because they believed these 2 things
What is the legislative branch should be the dominant branch (most powerful) and because it is branch closest to the people?
This must happen In order for Congress to remove a government official form office
What is the House of Representatives must vote to impeach an official and the Senate must vote to convict the official?
This is the number of years a member of the House and Senator must be a US citizen
What is 7 and 9 years?
This is what happens when there is a tie vote in the House of Representatives
What is the bill is defeated?
This person is in charge of the Senate in the absence of the Vice President
Who is the Senate Pro Tempore?
This is the process that determines the number of representatives each state has in the House of Representatives
What is apportionment?
This is number of votes needed in the House to needed to bring a government official to trial and this is the number of votes need to remove a government official from office
What is 50% plus one and what is 2/3?
Besides age and citizenship, this is the other requirement to serve in the House and Senate
What is must be a resident of the state they represent?
The House is based on this and the Senate is based on that
What is proportional representation and what is equal representation
This is the current Senate Pro Tempore
Who is Chuck Grassley?
This is the current Speaker of the House
Who is Mike Johnson