The Lawmaking Process
This is the term for an idea that has been written into a formal proposal for a law.
What is a bill?
This is the total number of members in the Senate.
What is 100?
The House of Representatives and the Senate together make up this branch of government.
What is the legislative branch?
This is the total number of members in the House of Representatives.
What is 435?
A citizen with an idea for a law can contact this type of government official to present their idea.
What is a Representative?
The President belongs to this branch of government.
What is the executive branch?
This is the smaller chamber of Congress, with 100 members.
What is the Senate?
The number of Representatives each state gets is based on this.
What is population?
Before a bill is voted on, it goes to this group, where experts review and revise It?
What is a committee.
True or False: If the President vetoes a bill, Congress can never try to pass it again.
What is False
The Senate and the House of Representatives are sometimes called this because Congress has two chambers.
What is a bicameral legislature?
Members of the House of Representatives serve terms that last this many years.
What is two years?
If a bill passes both the House and the Senate, it is sent here for approval.
What is the President’s desk?
The Senate holds this type of vote to approve treaties made by the President.
What is a two-thirds vote?
How many Presidents have been Impeached
What is three?
The number of votes needed for a bill to pass in the Senate.
What is 51?
The leader of the House of Representatives holds this title.
What is the Speaker of the House?
This type of vote is required in both chambers for a bill to pass.
What is a majority vote?
One of 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?
The Three ways the President could handle a bill
What is signing it into law, veto, and pocket veto?
A bill can take this long or longer to become a law due to debates, revisions, and voting processes.
What is days,months or even years?
One of the three 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?