Congress
This is the main job of congress.
What is making laws?
This is the number of representatives in the state of Colorado.
What is 8?
This is the number of senators we have in Colorado.
What is 2?
This is the difference between a bill and a law.
What is a bill is a proposed law, while a law has passed through the Legislative process and been enacted as LAW?
Congress is divided into these two institutions.
What is the Senate and the House of Representatives?
This is the congressional district Lafayette is in.
What is district 2?
These are the names of our senators and their respective parties.
Who is Michael Bennet (Dem) and John Hickenlooper (Dem)?
This is where a bill goes after being introduced.
What is a standing committee?
This determines the # of Representatives a state receives.
What is population?
This is the reason congressional districts are different sizes.
What is the need to keep each district’s population roughly equal, even though people are distributed differently across states and areas?
This is the senior senator in Colorado.
Who is Michael Bennet?
This is where a bill would go after passing in the senate.
What is the House of Representatives?
These four actions are within the powers of Congress.
What is levying taxes, creating laws, declaring war, and impeachment?
This is the name of the representative for our district.
Who is Joe Neguse?
This is the last place a bill goes before becoming a law
What is the President's desk?
This is the percentage of senators needed to threaten to filibuster
What is 41 percent?