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Bills and Laws
Powers of Congress
Congress and the Executive Branch
Committees
100
This person is the leader of the House of Representatives.
Who is the speaker of the House?
100
This is a bill that gets attached to a more popular Bill in order to get it passed.
What is a rider?
100
This term means "to bring formal charges against a public official".
What is impeach?
100
This is the "chamber" that would select the President if no candidate received a majority of votes from the Electoral College.
What is the House of Representatives?
100
This term describes how a bill can be forced out of committee and back on to the floor
What is a discharge petition?
200
This person is the leader of the Senate
Who is the Vice President? (other answers are: President of The Senate or Joe Biden")
200
This type of resolution becomes a law, if signed by the President.
What is a joint resolution?
200
This gives an artist (author, musician, painter, etc) the right to reproduce, publish or sell their work.
What is copyright?
200
True or False: The President can formally declare war.
False (only Congress can)
200
The House Education and Workforce committee probably work with what?
Education
300
Who is the current Speaker of the House?
Who is Paul D. Ryan?
300
This term describes "talking a bill to death" in the Senate.
What is filibuster?
300
This power gives Congress the power to take private property for public use (though they must pay the owner before taking it)
What is eminent domain?
300
Bills presented to the President to be signed must be __________.
What is identical?
300
The Senate Veteran Affairs Committee considers bills relating to who?
Veterans
400
How many representatives does Minnesota get in the House of Representatives?
What is 8?
400
This term describes a bill "dying" in committee.
What is pigeonholed?
400
According to the War Powers Act, the President can only send troops into combat abroad if what?
If Congress has declared war When Congress has specifically authorized a military action When an attack on the United States or any of its armed forces has occurred
400
This is the number of Presidents that have been impeached
What is two? (Bill Clinton and Andrew Johnson).
400
A committee called the Senate Armed Services Committee would most likely write a bill to help what?
The military
500
These are the two Senators from Minnesota and the person who represents Minnesota's 8th Congressional District (including Duluth)
Who are (Senators): Amy Klobuchar and Al Franken and (Representative) Rick Nolan
500
This is how a bill becomes a law (imagine that it does not get vetoed)
First it goes through the House (or *sometimes* the Senate) Second it goes through the "opposite chamber" Third it goes to the President to get ratified Finally it becomes a law.
500
These are the three Delegated Powers of Congress. Where are they found?
What are Expressed Powers (Powers given directly by the Constitution), Implied Powers (Powers implied by the Expressed Powers) and Inherent Powers (Powers that ALL countries have, because they're countries).
500
This is something that the President can NOT do with a bill that passed Congress.
What is amend the bill and THEN sign it into law.
500
The House Agriculture Committee would discuss bills that affect what kind of people?
Farmers