Terms
A proposed law is called...
What is a bill?
A refusal by the president to sign a bill.
What is presidential veto?
This is how congress charges officials in the executive and judicial branches with wrongdoing and bringing them to trial.
What is the power of impeachment?
Number of house of representative members per state.
What is based on population?
Number of senate members per state.
What is two senators per state?
An override
What happens when 2/3rds of Congress (Senate and House of Reps) vote for a bill over the president's veto so it becomes a law?
The result of the great compromise, which combined the New Jersey plan and the Virginia plan.
What is a bicameral legislator?
The power of advise and consent that the senate has.
What is Senate must approve treaties negotiated by president and can reject presidential
appointees.
Senate members are elected this way.
What is direct popular vote?
House of representative members are elected this way.
What is direct popular vote?
The person who is third in the line of succession for the presidency.
Who is the Speaker of the House?
Roles of Congress in the system of checks and balances.
What is congress can override presidential vetos, impeachment, senates advice and content, and power of purse.
Powers that are implied from the constitution based on the necessary and proper clause.
What is implied powers?
Qualifications of House members.
What is must be 25 years old, have lived in the US for seven years, and must live in the state they represent.
Qualifications of Senate members
What is must be 30 years old, have been a citizen fro 9 years, and must live in the state they represent?
The action of calling into question the integrity or validity of something.
What is an impeachment?
There are 20 of these and each house member sits on one standing and up to four of these.
Committees
Power that is clearly stated in the constitution.
What is expressed power?
This is the most powerful position in the House and their duty is to assign bills to committees among other things.
What is the Speaker of the House?
Most powerful position in the Senate who's duty is to work to fulfill thier party’s agenda.
What is the senate majority/minority leaders?
When opponents in the Senate take the floor and refuse to stop talking in order to prevent a bill to come up for vote.
What is a filibuster?
This is the process of a bill becoming a law...
What is: Bill is introduced (in either side), the bill goes to a committee where it is analyzed and revised, the bill is passed by the side it started in then passed to the next side, lastly the bill is signed by the president.
One example of implied power and one example of expressed power....
Implied could be that congress oversees the air force. Expressed could be regulating commerce.
Current Speaker of the House
Who is Nancy Pelosi?
The current majority/minority party leaders in the Senate.
Who are Mitch McConnell (R) and Chuck Schumer (D)?