Vocab
Senate
House
Congress
How a bill becomes a law/ misc
100
The process of drawing districts in odd shapes to capture the most voters of one party or another.
What is gerrymandering?
100
Six years.
What is the length of a Senator's term in office.
100
The length of a House term.
What is two years.
100
The main and most important job of the legislative branch.
What is to make laws?
100
This is the first step in how a bill becomes a law.
What is a bill is introduced by a member of Congress (either the House or the Senate).
200
Talking a bill to death.
What is filibuster?
200
The title and name of the leader of the Senate, who serves when the VP is not available.
Who is Senate Majority leader Harry Reid?
200
The title and name of the current leader of the House.
Who is John Boehner?
200
Most bills die here.
What is in committee?
200
The second step in how a bill becomes a law.
What is the bill is referred to a committee, which then discusses the bill, and makes changes.
300
These people of both parties gather the votes on the floor of both the House and the Senate, either for or against legislation, to make sure it passes or fails.
Who are the whips?
300
Name two important powers of the Senate.
What is the power to put the president on trial, the power to confirm presidential appointments, and the power to approve treaties.
300
The most important job of the Speaker of the House.
What is set the legislative agenda.
300
This clause of the Constitution gives Congress flexibility in making laws.
What is the necessary and proper (or elastic) clause?
300
The difference between a select committee and a standing committee.
What is a select committee sits only to investigate special circumstances, and then is disbanded, while a standing committee is a permanent committee of either the House or the Senate.
400
The committee that sits permanently in either the House or the Senate.
What is a standing committee?
400
Name the qualifications for becoming a US Senator.
What is must live in the same state you represent, be 35 years old, and have lived in the US for nine years.
400
The number of seats in the House.
What is 435.
400
This clause allows Congress to regulate trade between states.
What is the Commerce clause?
400
The two types of bills.
What is appropriation (spending) and authorization?
500
This term refers to the two houses of Congress, the House and the Senate, and the reason there are two is because the Founding Fathers did not want one to become more powerful than the other.
What bicameral legislature?
500
How seats are distributes among the states for representation in the House, and when it occurs.
What is reapportionment; every ten years.
500
The person who is the most _____________in the House or the Senate becomes the chairperson of a Committee.
What is senior? (Seniority rule)
500
In order for bills to become law, the versions passed by both the House and the Senate must be _____________.
What is identical?
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