House of Representatives
She is the current speaker of the House
Who is Nancy Pelosi?
Each Senator is up for re-election every ___ years.
What is 6?
These are powers that are stated in the Constitution, such as the power to declare war.
What are expressed powers?
This is a permanent committee and the first place a bill will go after it is proposed in Congress.
What is a standing committee?
This means to be formally reprimanded by Congress.
What is censure?
This is the number of representatives in the House
What is 435?
This is the amount of senators up for re-election every 2 years.
What is 1/3?
This is the word to describe our system of two houses in congress.
What is bicameral?
This type of committee is a special committee usually created for one specific issue.
What is a select committee?
This is the act of counting how many people are in each state, and the country.
What is a census?
This is the process by which boundary lines get drawn every 10 years to purposefully give one party an advantage.
What is gerrymandering?
This is the title of the day-to-day head of the Senate.
What is the President Pro Tempore?
Implied powers come from this clause in the constitution. Also called the elastic clause.
What is necessary and proper?
When the president gets a bill, they can sign, veto, or hold it for 10 days. If congress is less than 10 days from the end of its term and the bill is held, it is called this.
What is a pocket veto?
This is the term for an election in which Congress members are up for re-election, but the president is not.
What is a midterm or off year election?
This is the committee which sets the parameters of debate in the House.
What is the Rules Committee?
This is the current majority leader in the senate.
Who is Mitch McConnell?
This is the amount of women represented in Congress. An all-time high.
What is one quarter?
This is the committee that resolves differences between different versions of a bill in the House and Senate.
What is a conference committee?
This is needed by both houses of Congress to conduct business. It means to have 51% of its members present.
What is a quorum?
Each voting district represents about this many people.
What is 710,000?
This is the current minority leader in the senate.
Who is Chuck Schumer?
This is a law that congress is forbidden to create. It is described as punishing someone for breaking a law that was created after they broke it.
What is an ex post facto law?
The committee in each house of Congress that decides how money is allocated.
What is the appropriations committee?
Elections are held in this month.
What is November?