House or Senate
This chamber's total number of members is based on population, as determined by the census.
What is the House of Representatives?
The citizenship requirement for the Senate.
What is 9 years as a citizen of the United States?
A body of elected people who can make, change, or repeal the laws of the country.
What is a legislature?
True or False: Congress has to pass the exact same version of a bill for it to become a law?
What is true?
This chamber provides an advantage to smaller states for having equal representation for every state.
What is the Senate?
The age requirement for the House of Representatives.
What is 25 years old?
A legislature with two houses or chambers.
What is a Bicameral Legislature?
When looking at legislation, this is how you can tell which chamber a bill started in
What is the bill number (H.R. # or S.#)?
When voting on a bill or a law, members of Congress can vote Yes, No, or this third option.
What is present?
What is the Senate?
The term lengths for the Senate and the House of Representatives.
What is 6 years and 2 years?
The presiding officer (or the head) of the US House of Representatives.
Who is Speaker of the House?
This is a tactic used by senators to prolong a floor debate so the bill never gets voted on.
What is a filibuster?
Members of this chamber must live in the state they represent.
What is both the House and the Senate?
True or false: As a member of Congress, you must pay attention to the kind of people they are representing and work to pass laws that support them.
What is true?
The national legislative body of the United States, consisting of the Senate, or upper house, and the House of Representatives, or lower house.
What is Congress?
When the second chamber receives the bill, these are the four actions that chamber could take.
What is approve the bill as is, reject it, ignore it, or change it?
This chamber has the power of impeachment, meaning they find a government official guilty of a crime but do not remove them.
What is the House of Represenatives?
How many terms can a Congress member (both senators and representatives) run for?
What is unlimited terms?
A senator who is chosen to preside over the Senate in the absence of the Vice President of the US
Who is the President Pro-Tempore?
For Congress to override a presidential veto, they have to vote to do so by this much.
What is a two-thirds majority?