Legislative Branch

A proposed law is called a _______________

• veto

• congress

• bill

• unconstitutional

Who leads the Senate when the Vice President cannot be there?

• Speaker of the House

• Majority Whip

• Chief Justice

• President Pro Tempore

The main job of the legislative branch

• determine if laws are unconstitutional
• veto laws
• make laws
• approve laws made by the President

435 Members

• House of Representatives

• Senate

What is a filibuster?

• A vote of 60 senators

• The refusal to surrender the House floor during a debate to prevent a vote on a proposal

• A vote of 60 representatives

• The refusal to surrender the Senate floor during a

  debate to prevent a vote on a proposal

Bicameral means

• 1 house.

• 2 houses.

• 3 houses.

• 4 houses.

When the President rejects a bill, refuses to sign it, and sends it back to Congress it is called a/an _______________.

• veto

• congress

• bill

• unconstitutional

This chamber of Congress responsible for charging public officials of wrong-doing; impeachment

• House of Representatives

• Senate

Appropriations, Judiciary, and Armed Services are all examples of _____ committees. 

• standing 
• select 
• conference
• joint 

The 16th Amendment allowed the US Government to.....

• force taxes upon imported goods

• collect a federal income tax

• force native industrialists to defect to Mexico

• None of the above