Vocabulary
The upper chamber of the Legislature.
What is the Senate?
The number of Senators in the Senate.
What is 100?
This group elected it's first member this past election for 2025.
Who are Trans people?
The age you have to be to elected to the House of Representatives.
What is 25 years old?
The person who signs bills into law.
Who is the President?
The lower chamber of the Legislature.
What is the House of Representatives?
The number of Representatives in the House.
What is 435?
The year the first Black representative was elected.
What is 1870?
You need to be a citizen for ___ years before becoming a Senator.
What is 9 years?
After introducing a bill, it is referred to _______.
What is committee?
Democrats and Republicans work together.
What is bipartisan?
3rd in Line to become President and leader of the House.
Who is the Speaker of the House?
Who is Mike Johnson?
The first Native American Representative was elected in ________.
What is 1892?
For both the House and the Senate, in order to represent an area you must ______.
What is live in the area?
The two things legislators do when a bill reaches the floor of the House or Senate.
What is debate and vote?
Having two chambers in the Legislature.
What is bicameral?
Breaks ties in the Senate.
Who is the Vice President?
In the year 1956, the first ________ representative was elected.
What is Asian American?
Almost every Legislator (96%) has two things in common. Name one.
What is a college degree and belief in a higher power?
This is what happens if both the House and Senate pass their own versions of a bill.
What is the Conference Committee aligning the bill?
People that legislators represent.
What are constituents?
Something a legislator does besides write laws.
Take part in committee meetings.
Talk with constituents.
Work with legislative assistants.
Make calls to fundraisers for reelection.
Negotiate money for local projects.
Attend caucus meetings.
In 1999 the first _______ was elected.
What is openly gay or lesbian representative?
The passage of these two laws finally allowed everyone to become part of the Legislature.
What are the Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights Act?
At every step of the process, this can happen to a bill.
What is killed or stopped?