Senate

House of representatives

Legislative
Hodgepodge
Vocabulary
100
6 years in office
What is the time a senator is in office
100
Two years
What is the amount a time a House Representative serves?
100
The lower house
What is the house of representatives?
100
The judicial act of reviewing a law to determine if it is constitutional.
What is Judicial Review?
200
Vice president of the United States.
Who is the president of the Senate?
200
Districts are redrawn every 10 based on population
What is Reapportion?
200
The upper house
What is the Senate?
200
The Supreme law of the land.
What is the Constitution?
200
Dividing the powers of national and state governments
What is Federalism?
300
A senator refuses to give up the floor in order to present a vote.
What is a filibuster?
300
Henry Cuellar
Who is the representative of district 28?
300
Executive Legislative Judicial
What are the three branches of government?
300
People eligible to vote for representatives of government.
What are constituents?
400
Senator who filibustered for 24 hours against civil rights legislation.
Who is Strom Thurmond?
400
District 28
What is the district Poteet resides in?
400
30 years or older/US citizen 9 years/live in the state you represent
What are the qualifications of a Senate member?
400
The head of the executive branch.
Who is the president?
400
To bring charges against.
What is Impeachment?
500
60 senators end a filibuster then a vote on the bill must be held within 30 hours?
What is Cloture?
500
Dividing districts to favor one party. Technically illegal but it's still done
What is Gerrymandering?
500
Representation/Law making/Consensus Building/Approval/Investigation/Oversight
What are the key functions of Congress?
500
Branch that interprets laws and decides if they are constitutional.
What is the Judicial branch?
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