House
Senate
Congress
Powers of Congress
Committees
100
The age and citizenship requirement for the House
What is 25 and a citizen of the US for 7 years?
100
The proportion of senate terms that expire every two years.
What is one-third?
100
The minimum number of members of Congress a state can have.
What is three?
100
Powers that are stated in the Constitution.
What is an expressed power?
100
The type of committee that plays a critical role in the lawmaking process.
What is a standing committee?
200
Short terms were designed to force House members to do this.
What is be more responsive to their constituents?
200
How senators were chosen before 1913.
What is by their state's legislature?
200
When members of Congress vote along with their party.
What is a partisan?
200
The right to manufacture and sell an invention you have made.
What is a patent?
200
The purpose of a conference committee.
What is to develop a compromise bill?
300
The role of the House in Presidential elections.
What is the House votes by state if there is no majority in the electoral college?
300
Because Senators are more qualified than House members, the Senate is referred to as this.
What is the "upper house"?
300
In this role, members of Congress help citizens deal with the federal bureaucracy.
What is servant of their constituent?
300
An executive power of the Senate.
What is confirm the President's appointments?
300
A committee set up for a specific purpose and a limited time.
What is a select committee?
400
The reason opening day in the House is longer than that of the Senate.
What is the House completely turns over but the Senate is a continuous body?
400
The Senate is called this because all of its seats are never up for election at the same time.
What is a "continuous body"?
400
The vote required to propose a constitutional amendment.
What is two-thirds in each house?
400
The three reasons why Congress conducts investigations
What is gather information, focus public attention, expose questionable activities?
400
The type of committee for the House Rules Committee.
What is a standing committee?
500
The committee in the House that handles all bills dealing with taxes.
What is Ways and Means?
500
The way representation in the Senate is decided and the term of a Senator.
What is every state is equal and 6 years?
500
A member of Congress votes based on what his constituents think about an issue.
What is a delegate?
500
This provides the basis for the existence of the implied powers.
What is the Necessary and Proper Clause?
500
The two types of committees that must include both House and Senate members.
What is a joint and a conference committee?
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