AP Gov Unit 2.2 Structure & Legislative Process of Congress

​Next 4 questions are a review from yesterday

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​Next 4 questions are a review from yesterday

Match

Review from yesterday: Match the structures of congress

• Two chambers of Congress

• 2 years terms, 435 members

• 6 year terms, 100 members

• Groups within parties in Congress

• Senators are now elected by people in states

Bicameral

House

Senate

Caucuses

17th Amendment

• Bicameral

• House

• Senate

• Caucuses

• 17th Amendment

Match

Review from yesterday: Match the powers of congress

• Organizing the federal budget, collecting taxes, and then spending

• Managing trade between states and other countries

• Funding our military, declaring war, raising the army.

• All other powers granted by the necessary and proper clause

Power of the Purse

Regulating Commerce

Foreign & Military Affairs

Implied

• Power of the Purse

• Regulating Commerce

• Foreign & Military Affairs

• Implied

Drag and Drop

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proposes revenue bills, impeaches a president, selects a president ​ when no electoral majority is reached.



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suggesting or rejecting presidential appointments. They also approve foreign treaties, convict a president.

Drag these tiles and drop them in the correct blank above

House

Congress

Senate

Match

Review from yesterday: Match the Congressional Leadership positions

• Leader of the Majority Party in the House. Organizes meetings, committees, and debates

• Spokesperson for their party in the House

• VP (breaks ties in the Senate. Pro tempore steps in if VP is unavailable.

• Manages party discipline. (Deputies)

• Chief Legislator

Speaker of the House

Majority & Minority Leaders

President of the Senate

Whip

Senate Majority Leader

• Speaker of the House

• Majority & Minority Leaders

• President of the Senate

• Whip

• Senate Majority Leader

YOU SHOULD WRITE THE WHOLE PROCESS

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​Go to Schoology & take the House vs. Senate Review (this and the notes are a daily grade)