Senate
House of Representatives
Powers
Bills
Vocabulary
100
There are 100 of these
What is the number of people in the Senate?
100
This is the number of representatives in the House of Representatives.
What is 435?
100
They have the power to oversee all treaties the president make.
What is the Senate?
100
This is the fourth step for a bill to make it to the president.
What is the bill is debated and voted on?
100
This is a procedure that may be used to limit or end floor debate in a leglative body.
What is a cloture?
200
This is the age a senator must be.
What is 30 years old?
200
This is the minimum age one must be to be able to be a U.S. representative.
What is 25 years of age?
200
This power allows Congress to levy taxes.
What is the Monetary Power
200
The president holds the bill for 10 days and Congress adjourns.
What is a pocket veto?
200
This is the power of a government to take private property for public use.
What is public domain?
300
This is the number of years a person must be a citizen of the U.S. before he can be a U.S. Senator?
What is 9 years?
300
This is the representative of Hays county.
Who is Lloyd Doggett.
300
This is the power to regulate trade between states and with other nations.
What is Commerce/ Foreign Powers
300
This is what Congress can do when a president vetos a bill.
What is accept it or override it with a 2/3 vote?
300
This is a period of time during which, each year, Congress assembles and conducts business.
What is a session?
400
This is the name of a U.S. Senator from Texas.
Who is... John Cornyn OR Kay Bailey Hutchinson
400
This state has the greatest number of seats in the House.
What is California?
400
Article of the Constitution that allows Congress to make formal amendments to the Constitution.
What is Article V?
400
This is the first step for a bill to become a law.
What is the bill is introduced by a sponsor.
400
This is the least number of members who must be present for a legislative body to conduct business.
What is a quorum?
500
This is the person who is the President of the Senate.
Who is the Vice President OR Joe Biden?
500
This is what you call a state who has only 1 representative per state, such as North Dakota.
What is an "at large" state?
500
This is the power to remove any elected official using a 2 step process.
What is the impeachment power?
500
This is the 4 choices a president has on what to do with a bill.
What is sign it, veto it, hold it for 10 days while congress is in session, or hold it for 10 days while congress adjourns?
500
This is a temporary joint committee created to reconcile any differences between the two houses' versions of a bill.
What is a conference committee?
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