This is a Bill with many riders on it, it seems to offer something for everyone.
What is The Christmas Tree Bill?
100
This is an official count or survey of a population
What is Census?
100
Members debate and vote on the amendments before any changes are made.
What is a Mark-Up Session?
100
This Branch checks the Judicial Branch.
What is Legislative Branch?
100
Comprised of the House and Senate.
What is Congress?
200
The tactic of using endless speeches on the Senate floor to delay or prevent passageof legislation. They are not permitted in the House.
What is Filibuster?
200
The determination of the number of members each US state sends to the House of Representatives, based on population figures.
What is Apportionment?
200
This Law provides for the election of two U.S. senators from each state by popular vote and for a term of six years.
What is the 17th Amendment?
200
The presiding officer of the United States House of Representatives. This person is elected and runs the proceedings of the House.
What is the Speaker?
200
A statement in the U.S. constitution granting Congress the power to pass all laws necessary and proper for carrying out the enumerated list of powers.
What is the Elastic Clause?
300
The trading of votes among legislators to ensure the passage of different Bills in which have a special interest.
What is Logrolling?
300
100 in US Senate and 435 in H.O.R.
Total 535.
What is the Number of seats in the Congress?
300
A permanent committee, intended to consider all matters pertaining to a designated subject. (i.e. Homeland Security and/ Foreign Affairs)
What is a Standing Committee?
300
This is someone who is employed to persuade legislators to vote for legislation
What is Lobbyist?
300
Levy/Collect Taxes, Borrow Money, Regulate Interstate and Foreign Affairs, Coin Money, and Declare War.
Another Term for what all these are.
What are Enumerated Powers?
400
The process used to end a filibuster in the Senate.
What is Cloture?
400
This grants the President the unilateral power to recognize foreign governments without consulting the Congress.
What is the Power of Recognition?
400
A high-ranking Senator of the majority party who presides over the US Senate in the absence of the vice president.
What is the President Pro Tempore?
400
A system of government in which most of the important decisions are made by state officials rather than by elected representatives.
What is Bureaucracy?
500
This is the practice of having two legislative or parliamentary chambers.
What is Bicameral?
500
These are the five powers that Article I gives to the Congress.
What is: Levy/Collect Taxes, Borrow Money, Regulate Interstate and Foreign Affairs, Coin Money, and Declare War.
500
This piece of legislation must be "okay-ed" by the House and Senate, and then onto the President to be "okay-ed".
What is the Process of Passing a Bill?
500
This is what you are in a district, assigned to a Representative in the House.
What is a Constituent?
500
This is a resolution of Congress that stated that the President can send troops into action abroad only by authorization of Congress or if America is already under attack or serious threat. It requires that the president notify Congress within 48 hours of committing troops to military action and forbids troops from remaining for more than 60 days without a declaration of war.