Powers of Congress
These powers, located in the Constitution, are given directly to Congress
What are enumerated/delegated/expressed powers?
This is the age you have to be to be a Senator
What is 30?
In the Senate, this is who assigns bills to committees
What is the Senate Majority Leader?
The check over a Presidential Veto
What is a 2/3 override?
This is the seventeenth amendment that changes the Founders compromise on representation.
What is direct election of Senators?
This is half plus one, and is the number of people needed to conduct business in Congress
What is a quorum?
This is the August body tends more toward the Seniority Principle when assigning committee chairs. Paul Ryan was a Spring Chicken.
What is the Senate?
This Committee is in charge of taxation legislation
What is the House Ways and Means Committee?
This is the largest discretionary spending category.
What is the DOD?
Court Case that limited the Necessary and Proper power of Congress with the Commerce Clause
What is US v. Lopez
This body draws up the Articles of Impeachment
What is the House of Representatives?
This is where all tax bills must start
What is the House?
This is what the Senate must do to end a filibuster
What is propose a cloture vote?
The type of representation that tries to represent the will of the people. (VOCAB)
What is the delegate model?
Marble Cake federalism case that made Wesberry v. Sanders and "no brainer" in that the court would guarantee "one person, one vote"?
What is Baker v. Carr?
This is the body that ratifies treaties
What is the Senate?
This is about 95% in the House and 86% in the Senate
What is the Incumbency Rate?
This is the type of committee that is used when the House and Senate have a similar bill that needs to be resolved
What is a conference committee?
Budget bill that several appropriation subcommittees pass together that goes FIRSTLY the floor of Each Body and SECONDLY to the President.
What is an omnibus bill?
Location of the "equal protection" clause
What is the 14th Amendment?
This is something that the House of Reps must use in the legislative process that is NOT mirrored in the Senate.
What is the Rules Committee?
Denied Power to hold someone without a body of Evidence. Latin from the Cornell Notes on Article I
What is a writ of Habeas Corpus?
This is when a member of Congress adds money into a piece of legislation for a hometown project
What is pork-barrel legislation/earmark/rider?
When the President and Congress cannot come to terms on a budget and appropriations, these stop gaps are often funded
What is a Continuing Resolution?
Decision that Gerrymandering based solely on Race is Unconstitutional
What is Shaw v. Reno?