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Legislative Powers
Non-legislative Powers
Investigations
Oversight
Congress and the President
100
The power to levy taxes also known as this.
What is the Power of the Purse?
100
When no candidate has the majority of the electoral vote.
What is the power to choose a president?
100
A legal order that a person must appear or produce requested documents.
What is a subpoena?
100
Continuing review of how effectively the executive branch carries out the laws Congress passes.
What is oversight?
100
Congress's representation.
What are states and districts?
200
This reached $6 trillion in the year 2000.
What is the national debt?
200
Impeachment
What is a formal accusation of misconduct in office?
200
Willful obstruction
What is contempt?
200
No staff, time, or money
What is a limitation of oversight?
200
The president's refusal to spend money Congress has voted to fund a program.
What is impoundment?
300
This power deals with regulating foreign and interstate commerce.
What is the Commerce Power?
300
The Senate's power to approve presidential appointments of federal officials.
What is the confirmation power?
300
Freedom from prosecution from witnesses whose testimony ties them to illegal acts.
What is immunity?
300
This Act requires Congress to continuously watch over the executive branch.
What is the Legislative Reorganization Act?
300
The yearly financial plan for the national government.
What is the national budget?
400
The process by which immigrants to the United States may become citizens.
What is naturalization?
400
The Senate's power to ratify treaties between the US and other countries.
What is the ratification power?
400
Witnesses who do not tell the truth can be criminally prosecuted for lying under oath.
What is perjury?
400
The provisions Congress wrote into some laws that allowed it to review and cancel actions of executive agencies.
What is a legislative veto?
400
Vetoing only certain lines or items in a bill.
What is a line-item veto?
500
The exclusive right to publish and sell literary, musical, or artistic work, which Congress may grant.
What is a copyright?
500
How to get an amendment proposed.
What is 2/3 vote of both the Senate and the House?
500
Break-in of the Democratic National Committee Headquarters in 1972.
What is Watergate?
500
Oversight is an example of this constitutional principle which does not allow one branch of government to have complete power.
What are checks and balances?
500
This President employed emergency powers to gain more control over the economy during the Great Depression.
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?