Qualifications for Congress
U.S. Congress
Legislative Basics
How a Bill Becomes a Law
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100
This is how old you have to be to become a U.S. Senator.
What is 30?
100
This is the number of U.S. Senators in each state.
What is 2 senators?
100
This is the main function of the legislative branch.
What is making laws?
100
This is who can write up a bill to be presented to Congress.
What is anyone?
100
This is the man who presides over the Senate.
Who is the Vice President (Joe Biden)?
200
This is how long you must be a citizen before becoming a Representative in the House of Representatives.
What is seven years?
200
What is the number of representatives per state based on?
What is the state's population?
200
This is the name of Maryland's Legislative branch.
What is the General Assembly?
200
This is the final step to officially make a bill a law.
What is it being signed by the President?
200
This is the name of the current Speaker of the House.
Who is John Boehner?
300
True or False: You must be a citizen of the state you represent.
What is true?
300
This is how many years a representative is elected for.
What is 2 years?
300
What are the two main houses of the U.S. Congress
What are the Senate and the House of Representatives?
300
This is the group of people that meets to discuss bills in more detail than the whole congress can get into.
What is a committee?
300
This is the act that moved all Indians out from East of the Mississippi.
What is the Indian Removal Act of 1830?
400
This is how long you must have been a citizen to become a U.S. Senator.
What is 9 years?
400
This is the month that elections are held for U.S. Congress.
What is November?
400
True or False: Congress has to approve of the President's budget.
What is True?
400
This is the length of time a bill has to complete the entire process.
What is 2 years?
400
This is a power not given to Congress in words, but understood to exist.
What is an implied power?
500
This is how old you must be to become a Representative.
What is 25 years old?
500
This is the number of representatives in the House of Representatives.
What is 435?
500
This is the House of Congress that approves of the President's appointments.
What is the U.S. Senate?
500
If the bill is different between the two houses, it must go here to get the differences ironed out.
What is the conference committee?
500
This is Mr. Bobrow's wife's name.
What is Susan?
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