How a Bill Becomes a Law
The first step for how a bill becomes a law.
What is a person has an idea?
What is 2 years?
The length of term for a Senator.
What is 6 years?
The Speaker of the House is from this party.
What is majority party?
The name of an oddly-shaped voting district designed to increase the voting strength of a particular group.
What is the second step of how a bill becomes a law?
What is a bill is debated in a committee?
The age to be eligible as a Representative.
The age to be eligible for the Senate.
What is 30?
Committee Chairs (leaders of a committee) typically come from this party.
What is majority party?
The term that refers to government projects and grants that primarily benefit a Congress member's home state.
What is pork-barrel projects?
What is the 3rd step of how a bill becomes a law?
What is both Chambers of Congress debate and vote on the bill?
Most powerful member of the House of Representatives
Who is the Speaker of the House?
This person breaks the tie in the Senate.
The reason why a Committee Chair will receive the position over someone else from their party (given they are both from the same party).
What is seniority?
A tactic for blocking legislation in the Senate - a Senator will hold the floor by talking for hour after hour.
What is filibustering?
The fourth step of how a bill becomes a law.
What is the bill is signed by the President (or left for 10 days while Congress is still in session)?
What is their district?
A Senator represents this.
What is the state?
What is your home district's House of Representative?
Who is Dean Philips?
Define implied powers.
What are powers that Congress has not explicitly stated in the Constitution?
The two ways a bill can become a law even if the president doesn't sign it.
What is Congress overriding a presidential veto by 2/3rd majority and the president keeps the bill for 10 days and Congress is in session.
The reason why each state's number of Representatives changes over time.
What is every ten years the Census reveals how much each state's population has changed and then the number of Representatives can change in each state based on their new population?
Amy Klobuchar and Tina Smith
The first (and only) female Speaker of the House.
Who is Nancy Pelosi?
Congress' implied powers come from this.
What is the necessary and proper clause?