This is a process of setting up new district lines after reapportionment has been completed
What is redistricting/gerrymandering?
100
The implied powers has often been called?
What is elastic clause?
100
How many committees do Representatives serve on?
What is 1?
100
What is an attempt to talk a bill to death
What is a filibuster?
100
Is the tie breaker in Senate
What is the Vice President?
200
Who is responsible for gerrymandering congressional districts?
What is State Legislatures?
200
This power given to Congress in the Constitution
What is expressed powers?
200
What is a lobbyist?
What is representative for an interest group?
200
Revenue acts of Congress originate in?
What is House of Representatives?
200
Has the most power in the House of Representatives
What is Speaker of the House?
300
What Colorado congressional district is Loveland in?
What is district 2?
300
Which body of Congress can impeach someone from office?
What is House of Representatives?
300
This is a temporary committee setup when the House and Senate have passed different versions of the same bill
What is conference committee?
300
This is how the President may kill a bill passed by Congress
What is a veto?
300
If the President vetoes a bill Congress can override it by a
What is 2/3 vote?
400
How many congressional districts does Colorado have?
What is 7 districts?
400
Which branch of Congress holds the trial when a president is impeached?
What is Senate?
400
This is a committee where Congress sets up permanent groups to oversee bills that deal with certain kinds of issues
What is a standing committee?
400
This is a draft of proposed law
What is a bill?
400
This is where most bills die
What is committee?
500
What was a court case that ruled that the Constitution intended that a vote in one congressional district was to be worth as much as a vote in another district?
What is Wesberry v Sanders?
500
Was the first president to be impeached?
Who is Andrew Johnson?
500
This committee specializes in a category of its standing committee’s responsibility
What is a subcommittee?
500
Of the thousands of bills introduced into Congress each year approximately how many become law?
What is 10%?
500
This is the qualification of which branch of Congress, 30 years old, 9 year US Citizen, legal resident of the United States?