How a Bill Becomes a Law
A President does this to change a bill into law.
What is sign a bill?
A president does this to say no to a bill.
What is veto a bill?
The number of Senators in Congress.
What is 100?
The number of representatives in the House of Representative.
What is 435?
Name a power of Congress.
what are creating laws, Collect taxes, borrow money, decide how money is collected, the power to establish and maintain army and navy, And the power to declare war.
Wehen a President decides to neither veto nor sign a bill.
What is a pocket veto?
This happens after a bill comes back from committee.
What is debating and voting on the bill by the entire house?
The qualifications for being a Senator.
What is 30 years old, live in the state you want to represent, and be a citizen for at least 9 years?
The length of a term for a representative.
What is 2 years?
What advantages do normal citizens gain from the benefits given to the members of Congress?
What is more money, and funding for projects
Bills are first sent to this to be studied and changed.
What is a committee?
A bill goes here after it passes in the first house of Congress.
What is the other house of Congress?
The leader of the Senate.
Who is the Vice President?
The leader of the House of Representatives.
What is the Speaker of the House?
What is the role of Congress in declaring war?
What is establishing and maintaining an army and a navy, And the power to declare war on other countries
This is a group of both senators and representatives who have to find a compromised version of a bill.
What is a conference committee?
A bill goes here after it passes in BOTH houses of Congress.
What is to the President?
The leader of the Senate when the official leader is out of town.
What is the President Pro Tempore?
Qualifications for a representative.
What is 25 years old, live in the state you want to represent, and be a citizen for at least 7 years?
Total number of people in Congress.
What is 535?
Who is the most powerful member of Congress?
Who is the Speaker of the House
2/3 of Congress is needed to do this.
What is override a Presidential Veto
The length of the term of a Senator.
What is 6 years?
The reason that a certain type of bill that must start in the House of Representatives.
The reason is because Representatives have less people to represent than a Senator so they will know better what their people want.
The names of our representative and our two senators
Who are