Legislative Branch 1
Which part of Congress is represented according to population?
What is The House of Representatives
Length of term for the House of Representatives.
What is two years
How many people are in the House of Representatives?
435
In every session of Congress, proposed laws are known as
what are bills
A charge levied by the government on persons or property to raise money to meet public needs
What is a tax
What kind of committee is established for a specific purpose and with a limited time frame?
What is a select committee
How are senators elected?
What are the voters in each state?
Bills that deal with taxation/revenue must be started in the
What is The House of Representatives
What is determined by the census every 10 years?
What is population & number of Representatives in the House
An exclusive right of an author to reproduce, publish, and sell his/her creative work
What is a copyright
Number of Senators.
100
A joint committee has members from
What are members from both the Senate and the House of Representatives
Daily Double:
What is a politician who is running for re-election?
Incumbent
The inherent power to take private property for public use with just compensation
What is eminent domain
What is the total number of members in Congress?
535
The leader and president of the Senate.
Who is the Vice President
Who is Stone County and part of Christian County State Representative
Who is Burt Whaley
An amendment allowing the people to vote directly for their senators.
What is the 17th Amendment?
A committee was established to consolidate the House and Senate versions of a bill into a single, final version.
Conference Committee
What are the two words Congress uses to start and stop its sessions
What is convenes and adjourns
Manipulating congressional districts (voting districts) to help or hurt a community of interest (members of a certain party, race, gender, or religion).
What is Gerrymandering
Who is someone that is represented by a politician. Starts with a "C"
Constituent.
Lawmakers has four voting options (how and why they vote. Name two of them
What are Delegates, Trustees, Partisans, or Politicos
Who is the most powerful person in Congress?
Who is the Speaker of the House
Daily Double:
Leadership positions in the US Senate. Minimum of two
What is
1. V.P. OR President Pro Tempore?
2.Majority Leader?
3.Minority Leader?