Section 1A
This house of congress has 435 members and is apportioned. To be eligible to serve you must be 25 or older, have been a citizen of the U.S. for at least 7 years, and be a legal resident of the state you represent. The members of this house serve 10 year terms.
What is the House of Representatives?
You do this when you look at a state's population to determine how many seats they get in congress.
What is apportion?
This is a meeting of congress.
What is a session?
These powers are directly given to congress from the constitution and can be grouped into five general categories: Financing Government, Regulating and Encouraging American Trade and Industry, Defending the Country, Creating Lower Courts, and Providing for growth.
What are delegated powers?
This is another name for a law.
What is an act?
This house of congress has 100 members who serve up to 6 year terms. To be eligible to be a member you must be at least 30, have been a citizen of the U.S. for 9 years, and be a legal resident of the state you live in.
What is the Senate?
This is when a congress member gives up their seat as punishment and it requires a 2/3 vote of either house.
What is expulsion?
This is a private meeting of a distinct party.
What is a caucus?
These powers not listed directly in the constitution, but are stretched delegated powers by the necessary and proper/elastic clause.
What are implied powers?
This method of delay is nicknamed "talk the bill to death."
What is a filibuster?
The formal disapproval of a member of congress's actions.
What is censure?
This means that when congress is in session its members can't be arrested in or on their way to or from a meeting in congress.
What is immunity?
This is the leader of the senate.
Who is the president pro tempore?
This is the act of removing someone from office for a serious crime such as treason.
What is impeachment?
The legislative procedure for ending debate in the Senate.
What is cloture?
This is the practice of drawing district lines that favor a particular politician, political party, or group of people.
What is gerrymandering?
A congress member gets a yearly salary of this amount.
What is $174,000?
This job position counts votes, encourage party loyalty, and ensure that the party’s members are present for important votes.
What is the party whip?
Powers specifically given to one of the houses from the constitution.
What are special powers?
This is the president's power to reject a law.
What is veto?
This is the name of a two-house legislature.
What is bicameral legislature?
This ensures that there are always 2/3 of the senate with prior experience.
What is senatorial 1/3 election stagger?
The leader of the House of Representatives.
Who is the Speaker of the House?
The constitution forbids congress from passing these laws that apply to actions that occurred before the laws were passed. The constitution also forbids congress from passing things such as laws that violate the bill of rights, bills of attainder, laws suspending the writ of habeas corpus, taxing exports, withdrawing money without a law, and granting nobility.
What are ex post facto laws?
This how a bill becomes a law.
What is the bill is sent to a committee, then the house acts on the bill, senate acts on the bill, and at last the president is sent the final bill?