Foundations
Where the authority of the Legislative Branch comes from.
What is Article I of the Constitution
The number of members in the House.
What is 435?
The number of members in the Senate.
What is 100?
The name of the current Democrat whip in the House.
Who is Kathrine Clark?
The officer in both the House and the Senate in charge of maintaining party discipline.
What is the whip?
A power that is specifically listed in the constitution that Congress can do.
What is an enumerated/express power?
The leader in charge of the entire House (name of office).
Who is the Speaker of the House?
The threat to extend the debate on legislature forever, effectively killing it. Only present in the Senate.
What is the filibuster?
Webster's celebrated oration ended with a classical allusion to the buckler of this hero, the protagonist of Homer's The Iliad.
Who is Achilles?
School choice is a part of this party's policy.
Who are the GOP?
A power not specifically listed but can be reasoned from certain clauses.
What is an implied power?
The current speaker of the House.
Who is Mike Johnson?
The official president of the Senate. (Name of office)
Who is the Vice President?
The Senator who read the phonebook in an attempt to filibuster Civil Rights legislation.
Who is Strom Thurmond?
Their policies include raising taxes on the rich to fund welfare programs.
Who are the Democrats?
The creation of this divided Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson and established the schools of Strict and Loose Constitutionalism.
What is the national bank?
This famous member was a former president. He was a stalwart abolitionist and mentored Abraham Lincoln.
Who was John Quincy Adams?
Who is the president pro tempore?
This coonskin cap clad hero of the wild frontier served in the House of Representatives and, after losing reelection, suffered a glorious, yet untimely, death at the Alamo.
Who was Davy Crockett?
The name of the leader of the Senate who rejected Woodrow Wilson's Treaty of Versailles.
Who was Henry Cabot Lodge?
These two clauses have allowed Congress to expand its authority.
What are the general welfare and the necessary and proper clauses?
The current minority leader in the House of Representatives.
Who is Hakeem Jeffries?
The name of the current president pro tempore.
Who is Chuck Grassley?
The name of the three presidents who have suffered the indignity of being impeached by the House of Representatives.
Who are Andrew Johnson, Bill Clinton, and Donald J. Trump?
The GOP senator from Kentucky who earned the well-deserved moniker "King of the Filibuster" for his dogged obstruction of President Obama's legislative agenda.
Who is Mitch "King of the Filibuster" McConnell?