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House of Representatives
The Senate
Overview of Congress
Congressional Powers
Congress in Action
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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

Powers explicitly given to congress.

What are expressed or enumerated powers?

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
When Congress assembles to conduct business
What is a session?
200

Powers given to congress that are drawn from expressed or enumerated powers. They are not formally in the constitution.

What are implied powers? 

200
Serves as presiding officer of Senate in absence of Vice President
What is the president pro tempore?
300
The length of a term for a House of Representative member
What is two years?
300

One of the senators from Wisconsin.

Who is Tammy Baldwin or Ron Johnson?

300

Committee that assembles to work out differences between House and Senate versions of bills.

What is a conference committee?

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
Permanently set the number of how many members could be in the House of Representatives
What is the Reapportionment Act of 1929?
400
The number of senators up for election every two years
What is 1/3 or about 33?
400

The committee that sets the rules and procedure for debate. The oldest committee in both chambers of congress.

What is the rules committee? 

400

The amendment that limits national congressional power. It "reserves" powers to the states.

What is the tenth amendment?

400

The president of the senate.

Who is the vice president?

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?
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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?

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Section of the Constitution that lists Congress' expressed powers
What is Article I, Section 8?
500

The congressperson that is in charge of making sure party members vote in line with their party.

What is the congressional whip?

500

The four ways the President could handle a bill

What are signing the bill making it into a law, let it site for 10 days without signing making it a law, veto, and pocket veto?