House of Reps
The age a person has to be in order to be in the House of Representatives.
What is 25?
The term length of a U.S. senator
What is 6 years?
What it takes for a bill to pass the House and the Senate.
This power means that Congress can collect revenue from citizens and from states.
What is the Power to tax?
The United States Legislative branch is bicameral, meaning this.
What are two houses, the Senate and the House of Representatives?
The representative that represents District 2 in Nebraska.
The 2 senators from Nebraska.
Who is Ben Sasse and Deb Fischer?
What it takes to overturn a Presidential veto in the House and the Senate.
What is a 2/3 vote?
The last time this power was used by Congress was during the Second World War.
What is the Power to Declare War?
The Impeachment Power is an example of this principle /provisions built into the Constitution to prevent any one branch from gaining excessive power.
What are Checks and Balances?
The number of representatives in the House of Representatives.
What is 435?
In the event of a tie in a Senate, this person can vote to break the tie.
Who is the Vice President?
Revenue bills must begin in here.
What is the House of Representatives?
The power and role that the Senate holds during the impeachment process.
What is to hold the trial and to convict or acquit?
Representation in House of Representatives is based on this.
What is the state's population?
The person who presides over the House of Representatives.
Who is the Speaker of the House?
The amount of Senators that are up for election every 2 years.
What is 1/3 of the Senators?
If a President does nothing with a bill that comes to them while Congress is in session, this is what will happen to it
What is become a law after 10 days?
Congress can make all laws that are deemed necessary and proper. What is this clause called?
What is the Elastic Clause or "Necessary and Proper Clause"?
The introduction to the Constitution is called this.
What is the Preamble?
The drawing of district lines to benefit one party and harm another party.
What is Gerrymandering?
The presiding officer of the Senate when the Vice President is not there.
Who is the President Pro-Tempore?
A bill that passes one house, but goes to the next house and is change a bit and then passed by the second house would go to this to make sure that both houses agree.
What is a conference committee?
A law that would retroactively punish someone for an action that they did in the past is illegal according to Article I.
What is an Ex Post Facto Law?
This is the subject matter of Article V (5) of the Constiution.
What is Amending the Constitution?