House of Representatives
The number of voting members in the House.
What is 435?
Each state has this many Senators.
What is two?
Type of legislature which is spilt into two houses.
What is a bicameral legislature?
This is the title of the leader in the House of Representatives.
Who is the Speaker of the House?
This determines how many representatives each state gets.
What is population of state?
The House of Representatives conducts reapportionment and redistricting every time there is a census; in other words reapportionment and redistricting occurs every ____ years.
What is ever 10 years?
These are examples of an implied power:
What is forming a national bank, cutting off relations with another country, or set immigration quotas?
Serves as the leader in the Senate.
Who is the Vice President?
The length of a term for a House of Representative member.
What is two years?
This person runs the proceedings in the Senate when the Vice President is absent.
Who is the President Pro Tempore or "Pro Tem"?
Committees in the House and the Senate are used for this purpose.
What is to divide up the work OR they select bills to be voting on OR help the public learn about issues facing the nation?
Name an example of an expressed power of Congress.
What is raise taxes, declare war, coin money?
These two people serve as Senators for the state of Nebraska.
Who is Deb Fischer and Pete Ricketts?
These three congresspeople represent Nebraska in the House of Representatives.
Who is Mike Flood, Don Bacon, and Adrian Smith?
This action can only be taken in the senate and is used to delay or prevent voting on a bill.
What is a filibuster?
This is the population of each congressional district in the United States.
What is 760,000?
There are three Presidents who have been impeached, but not removed from office.
Who are Andrew Johnson, Bill Clinton, and Donald Trump?
This specific type of vote ends a filibuster with a 3/5 vote (60 senators).
What is cloture?
Formal qualifications of being a House of Representative member.
What is 25 years old, US citizen at least 7 years, and resident of state?
The type of committee is used if the House of Representatives and the Senate pass different versions of the same bill.
What is a conference committee?
This clause, in the Constitution, gives implied powers to Congress.
What is the Necessary and Proper Clause?
These are the four ways the President could take action with a bill.
What are signing the bill making it into a law, ignore it for 10 days without signing making it a law, veto the bill, and pocket veto?