Congress as a whole
Name the two houses of Congress.
What are the House of Representatives and the Senate?
How old do you have to be to qualify for the House of Representatives? How old do you have to be to qualify for the Senate?
What is 25 years old for the House, and 30 years old for the Senate?
What does every bill start out as?
What is an idea?
What are Congressional powers that are written directly in the Constitution called?
What are expressed powers?
What are the voters called that are represented by a Congressman?
What is a constituent?
What is the only job of the Vice President in the Senate?
What is to break ties?
How many members are there in the House of Representatives? How many members are there in the Senate?
What are 435 in the House, and 100 in the Senate?
Which house of Congress does the bill go through first?
Whichever house the bill was introduced to.
What is the clause that allows for implied powers?
What is the elastic clause?
What are whips?
How long does a Congressional term last?
What is 2 years?
How long do you have to be a U.S. citizen for to qualify for the House? What about the Senate?
What is 7 years for the House and 9 for the Senate?
What is the purpose of sending a bill to a subcommittee?
What is to do further research?
In what article and section of the U.S. Constitution can you find a list of expressed powers?
What is article 1, section 8?
What did the 17th amendment do?
What is allowing the public to vote for Senators?
The census determines the amount of seats that each state gets in which house of Congress? What is this process called?
What is the House of Representatives? What is apportionment?
Which leadership position holds the most power in Congress?
Who is the Speaker of the House?
What is it called if a president does not sign or veto a bill for ten days?
What is a pocket veto?
Name three expressed powers.
Multiple answers will be accepted.
What is the role of a conference committee?
To settle differences in versions of a bill passed by each house of Congress (to create identical language for a bill in both houses of Congress)
Name one "check" that the Legislative Branch has on the Executive Branch during the Bill-to-Law process.
What is overriding a veto?
Name the current Speaker of the House and President Pro Tempore incumbents?
Who are Nancy Pelosi and Patrick Leahy?
Take us through each step in the bill to law process.
Idea -> Call Congressman -> Congressman introduces bill -> Committee -> Subcommittee -> Committee again -> First House Vote (Simple Majority) -> Second House Vote (Simple Majority) -> President
Name two implied powers.
Multiple answers will be accepted.
Come up to the board and draw lines that exemplify gerrymandering.
Answer will be shown on board.