
The Legislative Branch Review
Quiz by Jaclyn Lutts
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Who are members of congress responsible to and primarily have to answer to?
Who is the leader of the House of Representatives
What is the main duty of the Judicial department?
What is representation based on in the House of Representatives?
What does permanent committees mean in Congress?
What principle of government is represented by having both the Senate and House of Representatives?
Which is a requirement of all members of Congress?
What is a non-legislative power of Congress?
What clause is "Congress had the right to make laws that are necessary and proper..."
In order for a bill to reach the President, what must it pass through first?
Who is the leader of the Senate when the vice president is absent?
Why might a member of congress use a filbuster?
The party with fewer members in congress is know as?
What does Congress call the permanent committees that are always there term after term?
What happens when the President holds a bill for 10 days at the end of a Congressional session?
Where does Congress get its law-making powers from?
What is a person who is paid to persuade members of congress to enact legislation that would benefit the people who are paying them?
Who starts the impeachment process and who finishes the process?
What is an oddly-shaped district that is designed to increase the voting strength of one political party?
What two words mean the same?
During the Constitutional Convention, what created the bicameral system we have today?
Which is the correct order of how a bill becomes a law after it is introduced on the floor?
Education and Marriage laws are example of what type of power?
After a constituent goes to their congressman with an idea for law, what might occur next?
What is another name for the U.S. Senate?
In which house could a twenty-seven year old U.S. citizen be elected?
Who approves all treaties from the President?
Which two items belong together