Legislative branch basics
What is the primary responsibility of the legislative branch of the U.S. government?
what is to make laws?
How long is a term for a U.S. Senator?
What is 6 years?
Who can declare war?
what is congress
What can Congress do if the president vetoes a bill?
what is override the veto with 2/3 vote?
This document created the legislative branch of the U.S. government.
What is the U.S. Constitution?
What document created the legislative branch?
What is the U.S. Constitution?
How many senators are there?
what is 100
Who has the power to approve the federal budget?
What is the House of Representatives
What check does the Senate have over the President's appointments?
What is to confirm or reject them?
Which house of Congress was designed to represent the people more directly?
What is the House of Representatives?
Congress is made up of these two chambers?
What is the House or representative and the Senate?
How many members are in the House of Representatives?
What is 435?
Who approves treaties made by the President?
What is the Senate?
who can investigate the president?
what is congress?
What is a filibuster?
What is a tactic used in the Senate to delay voting on a bill?
The legislative branch is described in this Article of the States Constitution
What is Article 1?
Who is the leader of the House of Representatives?
What is the speaker of the house
What power does Congress have over the military?
What is the power to fund and regulate it?
What branch does Congress check with the power of the purse?
What is the executive branch?
Which compromise created the two-house Congress?
What is the Great Compromise?
What is bicameral?
How is the number of household members per state determined?
What is by population?
What is the power of impeachment?
What is the house accuses and the senate holds the trial?
What can Congress do to a federal judge?
What is impeach and remove them?
Who was the first woman elected to Congress?
Who is Jeannette Rankin?