Legislative Branch
Congressional sessions convene at noon on this date annually?
What is January 2nd?
What is the title of the person who presides over the House of Representatives?
What is the Speaker of the House?
What is the title of the person who presides over the Senate in the absence of the Vice President?
What is the President Pro- Tempore?
A committee composed of members from both houses called?
What is joint committee?
What term is used when a President basically refuses to sign a bill?
What is pocket veto?
What word is used to describe a legislative body with two houses, like the United States Congress?
What is bicameral?
How long, in years, is a term for members of the House?
What is two years.
What is the minimum age requirement for a member of the US Senate?
What is 30 years old?
What does the conference committee do?
The conference committee produces a compromise bill to the president when the bills both houses pass are not identical.
What is the stalling tactic allowing a Senator to "talk a bill to death"
What is a filibuster?
The people our senators and representatives represent are their?
What are Constituents?
What is the minimum age requirements for a member of the US House of Representatives?
What is 25 years old.
Which one of the qualifications is the same for both the House and the Senate?
What is living in the state that you represent?
The majority of bills die here.
What is in committee?
What is a hopper?
The hopper is a box, which members of the houses drop a bill they want to introduce into it
The elastic clause allows Congress to make laws regarding everything necessary and proper giving Congress what type of power?
What is implied power?
What word is used to describe the redistribution of seats in the House based on the census taken every ten years?
What is redistricting?
How much of the Senate is up for re-election every 2 years?
What is 1/3?
The term that applies to the 20 permanent committees of the House
What is standing committees?
The number of people needed to vote yea in the House for a bill to pass?
What is 218?
What is the term for the redrawing of district lines to benefit one political party?
What is gerrymandering?
What type of bill must start in the House of Representatives?
What is Revenue ($$$)?
What does the Senate do when a bill is up for a vote?
What is discuss the pros and cons of a bill?
process by which bills are assigned to a Congressional Committee
What is the Rules Committee
If a bill is not signed or vetoed by the President what happens?
What is in 10 days the bill becomes a law?