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45 Cards in this Set
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How many Lawmakers is Congress made up of? |
535 |
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How do they divide the Congress Lawmakers? |
Into Two houses. Senate and House of representatives |
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How many law makers does Senate have? |
100 |
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How many Law makers does House of Representatives have? |
435 |
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How many representatives does each state send too Senate? |
Two |
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How many Representatives does the state send to the House of Representatives? |
It is based on the Population of each state |
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What is the political party that has more than half of the seats in each house known as? |
The majority party |
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The party that has less then half of the seats in each house is known as what? |
The minority party |
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What does the majority party in the House of Rep do? |
They appoint a leader called the Speaker of the House |
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What does the Speaker of the House do? |
Guides the legislation through the house and leads floor debates |
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If anything happens to the President or the Vice president who is next in line to become president? |
The Speaker of the House. |
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The vice president is what? |
The presiding officer of the Senate |
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What can the Vice president Do? |
Can vote to break ties in the Senate |
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How many committees does the Congress have to deal with thousands of proposed laws and considers each session? |
Three of them. |
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What are standing committees? and what do they deal with? |
Permanent, dealing with specific types of govt. work. |
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What are Select committees? and what do they deal with? |
Temporary, and special issues. |
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What are Joint Committees? |
Members from both Senate, and the House |
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Why do Joint Committees gather? |
For certain issues |
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Where do Congress get their powers from? |
Article I Section 8 of the Constitution |
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What are Expressed or Enumerated powers? |
Powers that are specifically listed in the Constitution |
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What do Expressed or Enumerated Powers enclude |
Raise and spend money, regulate Commerce, make laws about defense, war, armed forces, create a postal system, and a court system. |
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What does the Elastic clause give Congress? |
Implied powers to do whatever is "Necessary and Proper" to carry out expressed powers. |
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in addition to lawmaking powers, what does congress have the power to do? |
Suggest amendments to the Constitution, approve or reject presidents nominees for various offices, and accuse and try officials for misconduct |
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Why does the Constitution limit Congressional powers? |
To prevent it from denying individuals their rights. |
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Congress may not punish |
a person without a trial or pass a law that makes an act a crime after the act has been committed. |
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Congress cannot interfere with the power of |
the states |
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Members of the Senate must be at least |
30 Yrs. old, live in state they represent, have been U.S. citizen for at least 9 yrs. |
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Members of the House of Rep must be |
At least 25 yrs. old, live in state they represent, and have been U.S. citizen for 7 yr.s |
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Members of Congress have offices in ________ and ________. |
Washington D.C. and their home state |
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Congress have... |
personal staff that gather information on proposed laws & deal with news reporters, voters, and Special interest groups |
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Congressional Committees have.. |
Staffs to organize committee hearings, meet with lobbyists, and draft bills. |
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Agencies that Support Congress include... |
Library of Congress, The Govt. Accountability Office, and the Congressional Budget Office. |
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In their Lawmaking capacity, members of congress do what? |
Write, Promote, and evaluate bills. |
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Members of Congress often try to do what? |
Help people from their districts in dealing with the fed. govt. and bring federal projects to their states. |
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How many bills does Congress consider each session? |
10,000 |
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Bills can be two things... |
Private and concern individual people, places or things.. Or they could be public and apply to entire nation |
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Where do bills come from? |
Special interest groups, private citizens, and from the president |
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Where does the bill first go to? |
a Standing Committee that holds a hearing on it. |
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After the hearing at the Standing Committee for a bill what do they do? |
They can Approve, change, replace, ignore or reject the bill. |
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After the bill is approved, changed, or replaced it moves to where for debate? |
the full House or Senate. |
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What can the House do to the bill? |
Make relevant amendments |
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What may the Senate do to the bill? |
Add riders that are completely unrelated to the bill
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If the House and Senate pass slightly different versions of the bill what will happen? |
A Conference committee with members from each house work out the differences Then the house and senate vote on it. |
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The president has the power to do what to bills approved by both of the houses? |
Veto or reject. |
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What can Congress do if a president vetos a bill |
They can over ride the president with a vote of 2/3rd in each house. |
