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House of Representatives
The Senate
Overview of Congress
Congressional Powers
Congress in Action
100
The number of voting members in the House
What is 435?
100
Each state has this many Senators
What is two?
100
Type of legislature we have in America
What is a bicameral legislature?
100
Difference between expressed and implied powers
What is expressed powers are specifically stated in the Constitution and implied powers aren't specifically stated?
100
Presiding officer in the House of Representatives?
Who is the Speaker of the House?
200
Determines how many representatives each state gets
What is population of state?
200
The length of term for a Senator
What is 6 years?
200

the main job of Congress

What is to make US laws?

200

Which house of Congress begins the impeachment process?

What is the House of Representatives?

200

If a bill has the following name--S215--where did it originate?

The Senate

300
The length of a term for a House of Representative member
What is two years?
300

Is the Senate the lower house or the upper house of Congress?

the upper house

300

What is a law before it becomes a law?

What is a bill?

300
Name two expressed powers of Congress
What is power to tax, borrow money, distribute money, regulate value of money, declare war, raise a military, and Copyrights and patents
300
A stalling attempt to "talk the bill to death"
What is a filibuster?
400

Where you must live in order to be a member of the House of Representatives

in the DISTRICT within the STATE you live in

400
The number of senators up for election every two years
What is 1/3 or about 33?
400

Where must ALL revenue (money) bills begin?

What is the House of Representatives?

400

Who holds impeachment trials?

What is the Senate?

400

What is the second step in how a bill becomes a law?

What is review by a committee?

500
Formal qualifications of being a House of Representative member
What is 25 years old, US citizen at least 7 years, and resident of state and district?
500
The formal qualifications of becoming a senator
What is 30 years old, 9 years of being a US resident, and live in state they're serving?
500

Powers listed in the Constitution

What are expressed powers?

500

Which house of Congress must declare war?

Both the House of Representatives and the Senate

500

The ways the President could handle a bill

What are signing the bill making it into a law or vetoing it?