House of Representatives
What is 25?
Minimum age for someone running in the Senate.
What is 30?
An expressed power.
What is a power CLEARLY listed/stated/expressed in the Constitution?
Permanent groups to oversee bills that deal with certain kinds of issues.
What is a standing committee?
What is coming up with an idea?
Term length in the House of Representatives.
What is 2 years?
The term used for unlimited debate that Senators can participate in.
What is Fillibuster?
Two examples of an expressed power.
Power to tax
Power to borrow
Power to regulate trade and selling of goods (commerce)
Power to print currency and make coins
War Powers
Naturalization Powers
Postal Power
Copyrights and Patents
Weights and Measurements
Power over Territories
A group within a standing committee that specializes in subcategory of its standing committee’s responsibility.
What is a subcommittee?
Length of time the President has to make a decision regarding a bill that has passed through Congress.
What is 10 days?
Current number of members in the House of Representatives.
What is 435?
Term length in the Senate.
What is 6 years?
An implied power.
Congressional Powers NOT WRITTEN in the Constitution, but suggested...
Necessary and Proper Clause
Also known as elastic clause
Powers that Congress needs in order to conduct its business
Two purposes of Congressional Committees.
Committees exist to divide up the workload of Congress
They control the agenda and guide legislation from its introduction to its sendoff
Help give further consideration to the sheer number of bills that get introduced
Learn what affects the public and the nation
Explain the phrase, "killed the bill."
What is failed to pass the bill in either chamber of Congress?
Way representation is decided in the House of Representatives.
What is based on population?
What is equal representation? (2 per state)
A non-legislative power (explain the term, not examples).
What is a non-law making power?
Temporary groups created to study one specific issue and report their findings.
Explain the term "Pocket Veto."
What is when the President chooses to do nothing in regard to a bill/if Congress' session ends before the 10 days are up & the bill dies?
Length you must be a citizen to run in the House of Representatives.
What is 7 years?
Length you must be a citizen to run in the Senate.
What is 9 years?
Three examples of privileges of members of the Legislative Branch.
80% of final pay pensions and 401(k) plan
Tax deduction to maintain residence at home and in the DC area
Travel allowances to and from home to DC and back
Life and health insurance at low rates
Very generous retirement plan
Office and staff for the office
Franking privilege
Postage
Free printing, restaurants in the capital, gyms, swimming pools, free parking
Free from arrest in all cases except treason, felony, and breach of the peace when they are attending Congress or on their way to and from Congress
Cannot be sued for anything they say on the House or Senate floor
Both houses can judge the qualifications of new members and decide whether to seat them
If they fail to meet age, residence, or citizenship qualification
Each house may punish its own members for disorderly behavior by a majority vote and expel a legislator by 2/3rds vote
Treason and bribes are grounds for expulsion
Lesser offenses may be censured
A vote of formal disapproval of member’s action
Made up of members of both the House and Senate
Can be temporary or permanent
What is a joint committee?
Where an idea for a bill can come from.
What is ideas can come from Congress, private citizens or from the White House (i.e. The President) or Special Interest Groups (groups of individuals who try to influence Congress) may also present ideas to Congress that may become bills?