Basics & Structure
What is the main role of the legislative branch?
What is to make laws?
What is the length of a term for a member of the House of Representatives?
What is 2 years?
What is the length of a term for a U.S. Senator?
What is 6 years?
What are the names of the two houses of Congress?
What are the Senate and the House of Representatives?
Who is the presiding officer and leader of the House of Representatives?
Who is the Speaker of the House?
Why is the Senate considered a "continuous body"?
Because only 1/3 of its seats are up for re-election every two years.
What term describes a two-house legislature?
What is bicameral?
What is the redistribution of House seats based on population changes after a census called?
What is reapportionment?
Who officially serves as the President of the Senate?
Who is the Vice President of the United States?
How many voting members are in the House of Representatives?
What is 435?
Which chamber has the sole power to select the President if the Electoral College fails to win a majority?
What is the House of Representatives?
How many votes are required to invoke cloture and end a filibuster in the Senate?
What is 3/5 (or 60 senators)
How many total Senators serve in the U.S. Senate?
What is 100 (2 per state)?
The total number of voting members in the U.S. House of Representatives.
What is 435
Ratified in 1913, this constitutional amendment allowed senators to be directly elected by the public rather than chosen by state legislatures.
What is the 17th Amendment?