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How many senators are from each state?
What is two?
100
What majority is needed to vote to override a presidential veto?
What is 2/3?
100
Who breaks a tie in the Senate?
What is the Vice President of USA (President of the Senate)
100
Who is the current Speaker of the House?
What is Paul Ryan?
100
What was the Stamp Act?
tax on newspapers and important legal documents
200
How many members of the House of Representatives are there?
What is 435?
200
Who is the most powerful member of Congress?
What is Speaker of the House?
200
Which chamber approves presidential nominations?
What is the Senate?
200
Who is the current Senate Majority Leader?
What is Mitch McConnell?
200
Describe Libertarian's main belief
What is little to no government regulation/involvement with social freedoms
300
What group reconciles bills from the House and the Senate?
What is a conference committee?
300
What is a rider?
What is legislation that is slipped into a bill that has little connection to the subject matter?
300
What are two differences between the Senate and the House?
answers vary
300
Who is the current Senate Minority Leader?
What is Harry Reid?
300
This is Ms. Allen's favorite food
What is pizza?
400
List three ways a bill can die in congress.
die in committee, pigeonholed, die in subcommittee, die in the House Rules committee, die in floor debate vote, approved in one house but denied in the other, die in final vote from either house, presidential veto
400
How do you end a filibuster? And what proportion must approve?
What is cloture motion/vote, 2/3
400
What are two powers of the Speaker of the House?
Preside over the daily sessions of the House, Preserve order in the chamber, Select bills for discussion, Appoint committee chairs and members, Refer bills to committee, Act as the official spokesperson for the House, serves as another leader for the majority party
400
Who is the current House Minority Leader?
What is Nancy Pelosi?
400
After cats, this is Ms. Allen's favorite animal.
What is Panda Bears?
500
What is the selection of committee chair usually based upon in the House and in the Senate?
House- interview process Senate- longest serving party members of that committee
500
List three enumerated powers shared by the House and the Senate?
answers vary
500
What is pork?
federal funding assigned to pet projects in local districts
500
Who is the current president pro tempore of the Senate?
What is Orrin Hatch?
500
Name the first three positions in the line of presidential succession.
What is Vice President, Speaker of the House, President Pro Tempore of the Senate?