Executive Roles
Leadership in Congress
Congress Basics
How a Bill Becomes a Law
Key vocab
100

The President’s second-in-command

Who is the Vice President?

100

Leader of the House of Representatives

Who is the Speaker of the House?

100

The lower house of Congress

What is the House of Representatives?

100

The first place most bills are discussed

What is committee?

100

A system in which each branch of government can limit the power of the others to prevent any one branch from becoming too powerful.

What is Checks and Balances

200

The minimum age must you be to be able to run for President

What is 35?

200

Leader who breaks ties in the Senate

Who is the Vice President?

200

The upper house of Congress

What is the Senate?

200

The President can sign the bill or do this to reject it

What is veto it?

200

Drawing voting district lines in a strange way to give one political party an advantage

What is gerrymandering?

300

The group of advisors who run major federal departments

What is the Cabinet?

300

The current Vice President

Who is JD Vance?

300

Total number of U.S. Senators

What is 100?

300

A vote to override a veto requires this fraction in both houses

What is two-thirds?

300

In the Senate, when a member talks for a long time to delay a vote on a bill

What is a filibuster?

400

The President is Commander-in-Chief of this

What are the Armed Forces?

400

Years can a senate member serve?

6 years

400

Number of House members depends on this

What is population?

400

Both the House and the Senate must do this for a bill to go to the President

What is approve or pass it?

400

The order of officials who take over if the President cannot serve

What is the presidential succession? 

500

The yearly message where the President shares goals for the nation

What is the State of the Union Address?

500

The political party with the most members in a chamber is called this

What is the majority party?

500

Congress can remove a President using this process

What is impeachment? 

500

I'm just a bill on....

What is Capitol Hill?

500

Redrawing congressional district boundaries to reflect population changes after each census.

What is redistricting?

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