The House of Representatives
The number of years is a member of the House serves in office after they are elected is _____________.
What is 2 years?
The number of Senators that each state sends to serve in the US Senate?
What are 2 Senators?
A proposed law in either the House or Senate is called a ____________.
What is a Bill?
This position is the most powerful in the entire Congress.
What is Speaker of the House of Representatives?
The vote to end a filibuster in the Senate is called __________________ or sit down, shut up and vote.
What is Cloture?
The current Speaker of the House of Representatives is _____________________.
Who is Mike Johnson?
The current President of the US Senate is _________________.
Who is Kamala Harris?
Congress gets a lot of it's power from the _________________ clause of the US Constitution.
What is the Necessary and Proper or Elastic Clause?
This house of Congress is seen as more powerful and prestigious since they have longer terms and there are less of them.
What is the Senate?
Name one of the 2 US Senators from Texas.
Who is Ted Cruz or John Cornyn?
Only the House can bring up charges of _____________ against the President of the US.
What is Impeachment?
The age that one must be to run for a seat in the US Senate.
What is 30 years old?
A member of Congress's time in office after he or she is elected is called their _____________.
What is a term?
The group that redraws Congressional District lines in each state are that State's ____________________.
What is legislature?
The chamber or House of Congress that approves all Presidential appointments is the _____________.
What is the US Senate?
When the Federal government counts the US population every 10 years that decides representation in the House, is known as _________________.
What is a Census?
This is a measure seen only in the Senate to "kill" a bill by talking it to death called?
What is a Filibuster?
A congressional committee where both members of the House and Senate serve on at the same time is called a ______________ committee.
What is a joint committee?
Before a bill can go to the President for his signature, it must first pass through _________________ of Congress.
What are BOTH houses?
The number of terms that a member Congress can serve in office is ______________.
What is unlimited?
The "folks back home" that are represented by their Representative in the House or their Senator in the Senate are called _________________.
Constituents or Constituency
Approximately only __________ Senate seats are up for re-election every 2 years, that's why is called a continuous body.
What is 33 or 1/3?
The drawing of Congressional District lines in a way that is advantageous to one political party or the other is called __________________.
What are gerrymandering?
The "Rules" are far more strict and regimented in this house of Congress because there are more people in it.
What is the House of Representatives?
The SCOTUS case that backed up the idea that Congress has "implied" powers was __________________.
What is McCulloch v. Maryland?