Lawmaking
The 'lower' part of our legislative branch
What is The House of Representatives?
How old a person must be to serve in the lower house.
What is 25 years old?
How old a person must be to serve in the upper house.
What is 30 years old?
The month and year of the next Federal Election.
What is November of 2026?
Bonus: What is the formula for the exact day of the election?
The minimum number of members necessary to conduct business in either part of the legislature (vocabulary word).
What is a quorum or a majority?
Bonus: How many is it in the upper House?
Lower House?
the legal authority granted to a court or other legal entity to hear and decide cases, or the territory within which that authority extends. It's about the power to interpret, apply, and declare the law
What is jurisdiction?
2 answers
What U.N. stands for and where it is headquartered.
What is the United Nations and New York City?
Bonus: During what decade was the United Nations founded?
The upper part of our national legislature
What is the Senate?
How the Speaker of the House is chosen.
What is popular vote among Representatives?
Bonus: Who is the current Speaker of the House?
The length of a term of a person elected to the upper house.
What is 6 years?
The number of people that represent Arizona in our National Legislature.
What is 11?
An "Appropriations" Bill has to do with this subject.
What is MONEY?
The process of becoming a citizen of a country in which you were not born.
What is Naturalization?
Bonus: About how many people are "naturalized" in the U.S. each year?
The air and sea U.S. military campaign that started in February of 2025 to prevent Iran from developing a nuclear weapon?
What is Operation Epic Fury?
Another name for our national legislative branch.
What is Congress?
The length of a term for a person in the lower house.
What is 2 years?
The State that has the most representation in the Senate.
What is they are all the same?
The number of times a person can be election the United States Legislature.
What is Unlimited?
The President of the upper house, their name, elected position, political party and the state they represent.
Worth Double
Who is JD Vance, the Vice President of the United States, a Republican from Ohio?
The division of power between different levels of Government and what those levels are, top to bottom.
What is Federalism?
Constitution
Federal Law
State Law
County Law
Local / City Law
The June 2025 bombing of Iran's underground nuclear facility?
What was Operation Midnight Hammer?
The number of people who serve in the upper part of our national legislature.
What is 100?
How vacancies in the House of Representatives must be filled.
What is a special election?
The current Majority Leader of the Upper House, his home state and political affiliation.
Worth Double
Who is John Thune, South Dakota and Republican?
This is how a vacancy in the Senate is filled.
2 answers
What is appointed by the Governor OR Special Election?
The month and type of year a new Legislative session begins.
Month and odd or even year
What is January and in odd years?
The place where a person or company goes to file for bankruptcy.
What is a bankruptcy court?
Nicolas ___________, the now former leader of _____________, was arrested by the U.S. military on ___________ charges.
What is Maduro, Venezuela and drug trafficking?
Bonus: What was the codename of this operation?
The number of people who serve in the lower part of our national legislature.
What is 435?
The part of Congress that has the sole power of impeachment.
What is the House of Representatives?
As the longest serving member of the majority party in the U.S. Senate, Chuck Grassley is in the line of succession to the Presidency as the holder of this title.
What is the President Pro Tempore?
The U.S. Legislative district to which we belong in the U.S. House of Representatives AND who represents us.
2 Answers
What is district 2 and Eli Crane?
The 3 things a President can do with a bill when it comes to him after being approved by Congress.
What are:
1 - Approve
2 - Veto
3 - Just let sit
The group or body that is create by this part of the Constitution: "To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions"
What is the National Guard?
This Middle Eastern waterway has been terrorized by Iran and led to this negative result in the United States.
What is the Strait of Hormuz and higher gas prices?
The name of the building where the U.S. Federal Legislature meets and the state it is located in.
What is the U.S. Capital Building and not in a state... it is in the District of Columbia?
The Minority leader in the lower house, his home state and political affiliation.
Who is Hakeem Jeffries, Democrat from New York?
The current minority leader in the Upper House, his political affiliation and the state he represents.
Worth Double
Who is Chuck Schumer , New York, Democrat?
The approximate re-elections rates and approval rates of Congress, in general.
2 answers
What is high re-election rates ~90% vs. low approval rates (~20-30%)
The practice of drawing legislative districts to benefit certain people or groups, especially the politicians drawing the boundaries.
What is Gerrymandering?
The nickname of the last power granted to Congress, the power that allows them to make any law they deem "necessary and proper", and why it has that nickname.
What is the Elastic Clause and it allows Congress to "stretch" their powers to just about anything...?
4 answers about the incident that has led to the current calls to "Free Palestine"
Worth Double!!!
The date (month and day)?
The (terrorist) group responsible for the attack?
Who this terrorist group attacked?
What country sponsors / funds this terrorist group?
What are:
October 7th
Hamas
Israel
Iran?