Senate
House of Representatives
Powers (and not) of Congress
How Congress makes a law
Miscellaneous
100
Six years
What is the length of the term senators are elected to serve?
100
What the House of Representative (and the Senate, for that matter) are responsible to make.
What are laws?
100
A power of congress related to money
What is the power to tax or the power to coin money?
100
An idea written by a member of Congress that he or she feels would make a good law
What is a bill?
100
The article in the constitution that outlines the powers and responsibilities of the legislative branch
What is Article 1?
200
Two persons
What is the number of senators each state sends to the Senate?
200
The way the number of representatives a state sends to the House of Representatives is determined
What is the population of the state?
200
A power of congress related to the defense of our country
What is raise and army and navy or declare war?
200
A group of senators or representatives that examine and discuss a bill, sometimes rewriting or changing parts of the bill and sometimes deciding that the bill is not a good idea
What is a committee?
200
Another name for the House of Representatives and Senate
What is Congress?
300
The number of senators in the Senate
What is 100?
300
The number of representatives in the House of Representatives
What is 435?
300
What we call a law that goes against the Constitution of the United States
What is unconstitutional?
300
The house of Congress that will vote first on a bill written by a senator
What is the Senate?
300
Two of the representatives from Utah
Who are Rob Bishop, Chris Stewart, Mia Love and John Curtis?
400
Both of the senators representing Utah
Who are Orrin Hatch and Mike Lee?
400
The state with the most representatives in the House of Representatives
What is California?
400
The group that can decide that a law is contrary to the constitution and overturn the law
What is the Supreme Court?
400
The individual who can choose to sign or refuse to sign a bill that Congress has passed by a majority vote
Who is the president?
400
The number of representatives Utah has in the House of Representatives
What is 4?
500
Two requirements for senators
What is 1) must be at least 30 years old, 2) must have been U.S. citizens for at least nine years and 3) must live in the state they represent?
500
Two requirements for members of the House of Representatives
What is 1) must be at least 25 years old, 2) must have been U.S. citizens for at least seven years and 3) must live in the district they represent?
500
Members of Congress are responsible to make laws to protect these
What are our rights?
500
The act of a president refusing to sign a bill
What is a veto?
500
The way that the country determines how many people live in a state and how many representatives each state should send to Congress
What is a census?
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