The Legislative Branch

Each state has an equal number of representatives in __________.

• the legislature

• the House of Representatives

• the Senate

• Congress

Each numbered Congress has a four-year term.

• True

• False

Senators serve ____________________.

• six-year terms

• four-year terms

• three-year terms

• two-year terms

 If something happens to the president and the vice president, who is next in line for the office of president?

• the Speaker of the House

• the Senate's presiding officer

• the majority leader

• the whip

Congress's power to coin money is __________________.

• an elastic power

• a non-legislative power

• an implied power

• an enumerated power

Congress does not have the power to declare war.

• True

• False

The Constitution gives Congress the right to impeach __________________.

• any official involved in serious wrongdoing

• only the president

• only federal judges

• any member of Congress involved in serious wrongdoing

Congress may tax exports.

• True

• False

Lawmakers _______________ federal grants and contracts for their states.

• have direct control over

• usually try to cut

• campaign against

• often compete to get

Members of Congress write, investigate, evaluate, and promote bills.

• True

• False