The Senate
The House of Representatives
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100

2

What are Senators per state?

100

435

How many members in the House of Representatives?

100

Bicameral

What is two houses?

100

Starts as an idea

What is a Bill?

100

19

What is the number of committees in the House of Representatives?

200

6

What is the length of a Senator's term.

200

At least 1

What is the minimum number of representatives per state?

200

67% or 291 in the House of Representatives and 67 in the Senate

How much or how many votes to override a President's veto of a Bill?

200

The Hopper

Where is a Bill introduced in the House of Representatives?

200

16

What is the number of committees in the Senate?

300

Vice President

Who is President of the Senate?

300

Decided by state population

How many representatives does any one state have?

300

51% or 218 in the House of Representatives or 51 in the Senate

How much or how many votes to pass a Bill?

300

A Committee

What smaller group of Congressmen or Senators that review a Bill?

300

Yea, Nay or Present

How can Senators vote on a Bill?

400

30

How old do you have to be to be elected to the Senate?

400

Speaker of the House

Who leads the House of Representatives?

400

10 days

In how long will a Bill become a law if the President takes no action and Congress is in session?

400

Veto

What is it called when the President says, "No," to a Bill?

400

Pocket Veto

What is it called when the President takes no action on a Bill when Congress is not in session?

500

President Pro Tempore

Who leads the Senate most of the time?

500

How the House of Representatives vote on a Bill

What is electronically?

500

H.R. and S.

What is the beginning of a Bill number in the House of Representatives and the Senate?

500

Override

What is it called when Congress overturns a veto?

500

Because each member represents more citizens

Why is the Senate called the "Upper House of Congress?"