The elastic clause allows Congress to make laws regarding everything necessary and proper giving Congress what type of power?
100
Two years
How long, in years, is a term for members of the House?
100
PRESIDENT PRO TEMPORE
What is the title of the person who presides over the Senate in the absence of the Vice President?
100
Seniority Rule
What informal rule is used to determine who will sit as chairman of a committee?
100
Pocket Veto
What term is used when a President ignores a bill sent to him/her for ten days?
200
Bicameral
What word is used to describe a legislative body with two houses, like the United States Congress?
200
25 years old
What is the minimum age requirement for a member of the US House of Representatives?
200
Thirty years old
What is the minimum age requirement for a member of the US Senate?
200
To Committee(s)
Before a bill is debated on the floor of the House or Senate it must go to what group(s)?
200
Filibuster
What is the stalling tactic allowing a Senator to "talk a bill to death"?
300
Expressed Powers
Since the power of Congress to tax is directly stated in the Constitution, what type of power does that make it?
300
Six years
What is the length of a Senators term?
300
Standing Committee
What type of committee permanently covers specific subject matters, like economics or foreign affairs, and is?
300
2/3 vote in each house
How many votes are necessary to overturn a Presidents veto?
400
Article I
What article number of the Constitution defines the US Legislative Branch?
400
435
How many members of the house are there.
400
The Vice President
Who breaks voting ties in the Senate?
400
House Rules Committee
Which committee in the House of Representatives monitors bills going to the floor for debate, also known as the "traffic cop"?
400
Earmarks/Pork
What are items added to bills that usually have nothing to with the bill called?
500
GERRYMANDERING
What is the term for the redrawing of district lines to the benefit of one political party?
500
Speaker of the House
What is the title of the person who presides over the House of Representatives?
500
100
How many Senators are there?
500
Conference Committee
What is the name of the meeting that takes place between the House and the Senate to iron out the differences between different versions of the same bill?
500
Cloture
What is it called when the Senate votes to stop debate or a filibuster?