The Legislative Branch Unit Test

What does this quote demonstrate?

One Thing the Senate can do that the House Can't is

Minimum age to be a Senator

Convened to reconcile different House and Senate bills toward the end of the process

This is what type if a committee? It does what?

This vote is taken to end/limit debate (filibuster) in the Senate

The ability of Congress to create almost any law they want is known as the

This person counts votes and tries to influence their member's votes

The House of Representatives has ________ members, the Senate ________

The Elastic Clause allows Congress to do what?

The President can appoint judges and high ranking members of the Executive Branch but

The number of people necessary to do business in Congress

The practice of "trading votes" in Congress to get bills passed is called

Why do we have a bicameral legislature

All of these are enumerated powers of Congress EXCEPT

Most bills die where

This person is the most powerful in Congress

This is used to prevent a vote usually in the Senate

Once a Bill is vetoed by the President it dies

A filibuster is usually initiated by

In order to override a presidential veto

Three terms that describe powers directly given to Congress by the Constitution

The House's numbers are determined by______ and the Senate's by_______

The job of breaking a tie in the Senate is constitutionally given to the

The people in a Congressman's district are known as

The Legislative Branch can impeach who

The President of the Senate is

This Tactic is used for what reason

This cartoon reflects American's feelings that Congress

A piece of Legislature that makes it easy to add lots of riders is known as