Who is the person that presides over the House of Representatives?
Speaker of the House
100
What is the term for seats being distributed in the House?
Apportioned
100
What is a proposed law called?
Bill
100
What is a lawmaking body with two houses called?
Bicameral Legislature
100
What is to accuse an office holder of misconduct called?
Impeach
200
What is the legal protection members of Congress have called?
Immunity
200
What are meetings of Congress?
Sessions
200
When the president refuses to sign a bill, it is called what?
Veto
200
What are powers that Congress claims it has the authority for under the elastic clause?
Implied Powers
200
What is an act that betrays or endangers one's country called?
Treason
300
Who is the officer who persuades party members to vote for party-sponsored legislation (does all the "dirty work" and is a "helper")?
Whip
300
What is a formal disapproval of the actions of a member of Congress?
Censure
300
What is another word for a law?
Act
300
What is delaying votes in the Senate by making lengthy speeches called?
Filibuster
300
Small groups of people working together on the same issue in Congress are called what?
Committees
400
Who is the president "for the time being" who presides over the Senate when the vice president is absent?
President Pro Tempore
400
What is drawing district lines that favor a particular political party called?
Gerrymandering
400
What is a possible law approving the spending of money called?
Appropriation Bill
400
What is the part of the Constitution that gives Congress the power to do any action relating to its delegated powers that it considers "necessary and proper"?
Elastic Clause
400
The House of Representatives has how many members?
435
500
What is the term for when Congress makes one of its members give up his or her own seat (they are kicked out of Congress)?
Expulsion
500
What are private meetings of a political party?
Caucuses
500
When the president does not sign a bill within 10 days when Congress is not in session, preventing it from becoming law, it is called what?
Pocket Veto
500
What is the procedure for ending debate in the Senate and taking a vote called?
Cloture
500
Which house of Congress begins the impeachment process?