Legislative Branch
Congressional Committees
How a Bills
Becomes Law
Executive Branch
Presidential Leadership
100
The total number of House of Representative members.
What is 435?
100
Committee that oversees bills.
What is a standing committee?
100
The last step in a bill becoming law.
What is the presidential action?
100
$400,000 and two terms (8 years)
What is the term and salary of the president?
100
The president's role as head of the armed forces of the United States.
What is Commander in Chief?
200
The process of determining the number of representatives for each state.
What is reapportionment?
200
Committees that study one specific issue and report their findings to the Senate or the House.
What are selected committees?
200
The stage of the process of a bill becoming law, which includes debating, amending, and voting on the bills.
What is the floor action?
200
The group chosen by the president for their experiences in certain selected areas of expertise.
What is the Cabinet?
200
The president impeached for perjury in a grand jury.
Who is Bill Clinton?
300
Powers of the Congress expressed in the first 17 clauses of Article I, section 8.
What is expressed or enumerated powers?
300
Study groups that include both the Senate and House.
What are joint committees?
300
The stage where pigeonholing occurs.
What is the committee action?
300
Departments and agencies of the federal government. Federal _____________
What is bureaucracy?
300
The presidential power to reject a bill.
What is veto?
400
Powers beyond what is expressed in the first 17 clauses of Article I, Section 8.
What is implied powers?
400
Committee that resolves differences between two versions of the same bill.
What are conference committees?
400
The stage where conference committees work out differences between two versions of the same bill.
What is conference action?
400
The department that controls the borders.
What is the Department of Homeland Security?
400
The most important duty of the president, which is to make sure laws are "faithfully......."
What is executed or enforced?
500
Congress is prohibited from passing these laws that make crimes of acts that were legal when they are committed.
What is ex post facto laws?
500
An agency that allows lawmakers of various committees to research different issues.
What is the Library of Congress?
500
The majority vote, which can override a veto.
What is 2/3 vote by Congress?
500
The person who presides over the Senate and helps the president if disabled or assassinated.
Who is the Vice President?
500
The presidential power to pardon or release convicted federal criminals.
What is Chief Executive?
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