The House of Representatives
The number of members in the House?
What is 435?
The number of years a Senator serves in one term.
What is Six years?
All bills start as this.
What is an idea?
This is a permanent committee.
How old you have to be a House Rep.
What is 25?
This is the presiding officer of the Senate.
Who is the Vice President?
What is Mrs. Dockery's favorite thing to eat for lunch?
Soup
The presidential action allows the president to ignore a bill for 10 days resulting in the bill dying.
What is Pocket Veto?
The presiding officer of the House.
What is the Speaker of the House?
This is the presiding officer of the Senate when the Vice President is not there.
Who is the President Pro Tempore?
The special power granted to the house that allows all money bills to start in the House.
What is the power of the purse?
Most work and editing of a bill is done here.
What is a committee?
This is a temporary committee.
What is a select/special committee?
This is the most powerful committee in this chamber of congress.
What is the Rules Committee?
This is a type of lengthy debate to block a bill from being voted on.
What is a Filibuster?
This is the constitutional principle that allows congress to impeach federal officials.
What is Checks and Balances
What is overriding a presidential veto?
This is the type of committee a bill goes to when a different version is passed in both houses.
What is a conference committee?
This is their role in impeachment trials.
What is initiating impeachment?
This is a special power given to the Senate that allows them to vote on Supreme Court nominees from the president.
What is the approval or confirmation power?
The name of a person that tries to influence lawmakers on policies.
What is a Lobbyist?
The conference committee sends the bill here after they have created a compromise bill.
What are both chambers of congress?
The two types of committees a conference committee is.
What is a select/special and joint committee?