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The House
The Senate
Making Laws
Vocabulary
100
The number of members in the House
What is 435
100
The number of Senators each state has
What is two?
100
These people can introduce a bill in Congress
What is any member of Congress?
100
The part of a state that a House member represents
What is a district?
200
The number of representatives each state has
What is it depends on how big the state is/or the more people the more representatives?
200
The length of term of a Senator
What is 6 years?
200
These people can offer ideas for bills and even draft them for others, but cannot actually introduce a bill in Congress
What are everyone else besides members of Congress, including the President?
200
The H.R. in H.R. 123
What is House of Representatives?
300
The state with the most representatives
What is California
300
This identifies a Senate bill?
What is "S."?
300
The next step after a bill is introduced in the House
What is the Speaker of the House sends it to the appropriate committee for review?
300
The practice of state legislators drawing district lines to favor a particular political party, politician or group of people
What is gerrymandering?
400
The number of people each House member represented in 2000
What is about 646,000?
400
The significance of a bill's number, i.e. H.R. 1215
What is the bill's place among all the bills introduced in this session of Congress?
400
The committee doesn't like a bill, then what happens
What is the bill is dead?
400
When a Senator delays a vote by talking endlessly
What is a filibuster?
500
Congress determines how seats in the House are to be apportioned
What is every 10 years when a census is held?
500
Name one Senator
What is Senator Booker, etc.?
500
These three have to agree for a bill to become a law (unless a veto is overridden)
What is House, Senate, and President?
500
The party that controls the House, the Senate and Presidency
What are the Republicans?