Powers of Congress
Legislative branch of the U.S. government.
What is Congress
Total number of House Representatives.
What is 435?
Total number of United States Senators.
The people represented by a member of Congress
What are constituents?
Powers explicitly stated in the Constitution.
Determines how many House Representatives each states gets in Congress.
What is population?
Name 1 of 2 Nevada Senators.
Who is Catherine Cortez-Masto/Jacky Rosen?
A proposed law that is introduced in either the House of Representatives or the Senate.
What is a bill?
Not explicitly stated in the Constitution but are necessary for Congress to execute its expressed powers.
What are implied powers?
Term length for a House Representative.
What is 2 years?
Current president of the Senate.
Who is Kamal Harris?
They can lobby lawmakers, provide campaign contributions, and mobilize their members to support or oppose specific legislation.
Tax on goods imported into the country.
What is a tariff?
Age an individual must be to be eligible to run for House Representative.
What is at least 25 years old?
Numbers of years an individual must have been a citizen of the U.S. in order to be eligible to run for Senate.
What is 9 years?
Play a crucial role in the legislative process as they review and analyze bills before they are brought to the floor for a vote.
What are Committees?
Also known as the Elastic Clause.
What is The Necessary and Proper Clause?
Name at least 1 of 4 Nevada House Representatives.
Who is Dina Titus/Steven Horsford/Susie Lee/Mark Amodei?
Made direct popular election of senators part of the Constitution.
What is the Seventeenth Amendment?
A provision that bears little relationship to the bill’s main topic.
What is a rider?