Lawmaking
The 'lower' part of our legislative branch
What is The House of Representatives?
How old a person must be to serve in the lower house.
What is 25 years old?
How old a person must be to serve in the upper house.
What is 30 years old?
The month and year of the next Federal Election.
What is November of 2026?
Bonus: What is the formula for the exact day of the election?
2 answers, worth double
Assuming full membership in the House and Senate, this is how many votes a bill needs to pass both Houses according to the Constitution.
What is 218 in the House and 50 or 51 in the Senate?
Long winded speeches that prevent the Senate from voting on a bill.
What is a Filibuster?
Bonus: How many votes does it take to break a Filibuster?
2 answers
What U.N. stands for and where it is headquartered.
What is the United Nations and New York City?
Bonus: During what decade was the United Nations founded?
a professional advocate paid to influence government decisions, laws, and policies on behalf of businesses, associations, or nonprofit organizations
What is a lobbyist?
Bonus: What guarantees that lobbyist will exist even though they are extremely unpopular?
The upper part of our national legislature
What is the Senate?
How the Speaker of the House is chosen.
What is popular vote among Representatives?
Bonus: Who is the current Speaker of the House?
The length of a term of a person elected to the upper house.
What is 6 years?
The number of people that represent Arizona in our National Legislature.
What is 11?
An "Appropriations" Bill has to do with this subject.
What is MONEY?
2 answers
A comprehensive population count of all people living in the U.S. every 10 years and when the next one will take place.
What is the Census and 2030?
The air and sea U.S. military campaign that started in February of 2026 to prevent Iran from developing a nuclear weapon?
What is Operation Epic Fury?
Our current approximate National Debt.
What is about $40.2 trillion?
Bonus: Name 4 of the top 6 countries in the world in terms of GDP?
Name 5 for double bonus
Name all 6 for triple bonus
Another name for our national legislative branch.
What is Congress?
The length of a term for a person in the lower house.
What is 2 years?
The State that has the most representation in the Senate.
What is they are all the same?
The number of times a person can be elected to the United States Legislature.
What is Unlimited?
4 answers, worth double
The President of the upper house, their name, elected position, political party and the state they represent.
Who is JD Vance, the Vice President of the United States, a Republican from Ohio?
The appropriation of government funds for localized projects that primarily benefit a legislator's home district or state rather than the national interest. It would never pass on its own, but gets passed as an earmark on larger more popular bills.
What is Pork?
The June 2025 bombing of Iran's underground nuclear facility?
What was Operation Midnight Hammer?
Our approximate current Debt to GDP ratio.
What is about 126%?
Bonus: In what single year did we add the most to our National Debt?
The number of people who serve in the upper part of our national legislature.
What is 100?
How vacancies in the House of Representatives must be filled.
What is a special election?
The current Majority Leader of the Upper House, his home state and political affiliation.
Worth Double
Who is John Thune, South Dakota and Republican?
This is how a vacancy in the Senate is filled.
2 answers
What is appointed by the Governor OR Special Election?
The date that the next Legislative session will begin.
What is January 3rd, 2027
The division of power between different levels of Government and what those levels are, top to bottom.
What is Federalism?
Constitution
Federal Law
State Law
County Law
Local / City Law
Nicolas ___________, the now former leader of _____________, was arrested by the U.S. military on ___________ charges.
What is Maduro, Venezuela and drug trafficking?
Bonus: What was the codename of this operation?
The 4 major Special Interest Groups that we talked about in class, explain what they advocate for.
Name 2
name all 4 for triple points.
What are the NAACP
NRA
ACLU
AARP?
The number of people who serve in the lower part of our national legislature.
What is 435?
The part of Congress that has the sole power of impeachment.
What is the House of Representatives?
As the longest serving member of the majority party in the U.S. Senate, Chuck Grassley is in the line of succession to the Presidency as the holder of this title.
What is the President Pro Tempore?
2 Answers
The U.S. Legislative district to which we belong in the U.S. House of Representatives AND who represents us.
What is district 2 and Eli Crane?
The 3 things a President can do with a bill when it comes to him after being approved by Congress.
What are:
1 - Approve
2 - Veto
3 - Just let sit
This allows the U.S. Senate to pass qualifying tax, spending, and debt limit bills with a simple majority vote (50 or 51 votes) instead of the usual 60-vote supermajority required to overcome a filibuster.
What is Reconciliation?
Bonus: 400 points bonus for each reconciliation bill that you can name that we have talked about in class?
This Middle Eastern waterway has been terrorized by Iran and led to this negative result in the United States.
What is the Strait of Hormuz and higher gas prices?
3 answers
The 3 main groups that write bills in the U.S.
What are Congress
Special Interest Groups / Lobbyists
and The President / Executive Branch / bureaucrats?
The name of the building where the U.S. Federal Legislature meets and the state it is located in.
What is the U.S. Capital Building and not in a state... it is in the District of Columbia?
The Minority leader in the lower house, his home state and political affiliation.
Who is Hakeem Jeffries, Democrat from New York?
The current minority leader in the Upper House, his political affiliation and the state he represents.
Worth Double
Who is Chuck Schumer , New York, Democrat?
Arizona's 2 senators and their political affiliations.
Who are Mark Kelly and Ruben Gallego and both are Democrats?
The practice of drawing legislative districts to benefit certain people or groups, especially the politicians drawing the boundaries.
What is Gerrymandering?
Bonus: Name at least 2 states that have redistricted in the past year?
The approximate re-elections rates and approval rates of Congress, in general.
2 answers
What is high re-election rates ~90% vs. low approval rates (~20-30%)
4 answers about the incident that has led to the current calls to "Free Palestine"
Worth Double!!!
The date (month and day)?
The (terrorist) group responsible for the attack?
Who this terrorist group attacked?
What country sponsors / funds this terrorist group?
What are:
October 7th
Hamas
Israel
Iran?
Typical ROI on lobbying.
What is about 22,000%?
Bonus: When former Congressmen become lobbyists, what kind of raise can they expect on average?