Congress being able to impeach the President is a check on _________ Branch.
What is the Executive?
Very first step in the bill making process.
What is the Idea Stage? Also accepted is Idea
Number of people in the House of Representatives.
What is 435 members?
This party is dominant in Idaho politics.
What is the Republican Party?
Deliberate manipulation of voting boundaries.
What is Gerrymandering?
Role in Congress where individual is a spokesman for the party.
What is a Party Leader? Also accepted: Majority/Minority Leader?
Rejection to bill by letting it sit.
What is a Pocket Veto?
Congress' ability to pay servicemembers could be classified as ________ power.
What is an Implied Power?
Enforcer of the party.
What is a Whip?
Act of redistributing districts to a state based off population shifts.
What is Reapportionment?
Votes the way that people would want them to vote
What is a Delegate
Rejection of a bill by the President.
What is a Veto?
Legislative Branch ________ the law.
What is Makes?
Type of representative that votes based off what is best for constituents.
What is a Trustee?
Amendment that gave 18 year olds the ability to vote.
What is the 26th Amendment?
Term used to describe two houses of Congress.
What is Bi-Cameral?
This stage is where most bills are pigeon-holed, forgotten about, deliberately not looked at or are killed.
What is the Committee Stage?
Gives Congress a "blank check" in order to carry out its duties.
What is the Necessary and Proper Clause?
Term used to describe voter who elect representatives.
What is a Constituent?
What is Baker v. Carr?
Amendment that allowed for Senators to be directly voted.
What is the 17th Amendment?
Type of committee where both houses work out differences in the bill before going to the President.
What is a Conference Committee?
Power for Congress to regulate trade between the states.
What is the Commerce Power?
Office that is the 3rd most powerful in the U.S.
What is Speaker of the House?
Used to help states to redraw district lines.
What is the Census?