Each lawmaker has four voting options.

He or she can vote as a delegate, a trustee, a partisan, or politicos. A Delegate ......

How many members are there in congress?

Each term of congress lasts.....

A session of Congress is when Congress assembles and conducts business. How many sessions are there in each term of Congress?

The two Senators that represent the state of Florida are Marco Rubio Charles Scott.

The Constitution provides that each House of Representatives shall be . . . chosen every ______________Year”.

The Constitution directs Congress to reapportion the seats in the House every __________ years, after each census

The Reapportionment Act of 1929 set the “permanent” size of the House at _________ members.

Districts that have been drawn to the advantage of the political party that controls the State’s legislature have been_________________________________.

This Supreme Court case held that the Constitution demands that the States draw congressional districts of substantially equal populations.

Congress has required that House elections be held on the Tuesday following the second Monday in November of each even-numbered year

he Constitution says that a member of the House must be at least ________________ years of age,

The Constitution says that the Senate “shall be composed of_________________ senators from each State,”

Originally, the Constitution provided that the members of the Senate were to be chosen by__________________.

Senators serve for ______year terms

Congress has only those powers delegated (granted, given) to it by the Constitution.

______________ powers are those stated in the Constitution.

The _______________ Clause proved to be more useful for the building of a strong and United States out of a weak confederation than any other provision in the Constitution.

Congress has an unlimited power to tax.

Congress cannot lay a tax on church services, for example—because such a tax would violate the 1st Amendment

Congress has other expressed powers that relate to domestic matters. Each of them have a direct and considerable effect on the daily lives of the American people. They include...

_______________ powers are those powers that are not spelled out in so many words in the Constitution

The constitutional basis for the implied powers is found in one of the expressed powers. The ________________Clause, the final clause in the lengthy Section 8 of Article I.

Every exercise of implied powers must be based on at least one of the expressed powers

Congress has the power to investigate, inquire into, or inform itself on—any matter that falls within the scope of its lawmaking authority. Most often, those inquiries are held to.

The Constitution delegates two executive powers to the Senate. They deal with

_____________ has the sole power to impeach.

The __________ has the sole power to try—to judge, to sit as a court—in impeachment cases

A ________ is a proposed law presented to the House or Senate for consideration.

According to Article I, Section 7, Clause 1 of the Constitution, “bills for raising Revenue shall originate in the

There are two types of bills: public bills and private bills.

These are similar to bills, and, when passed, have the force of law. They most often deal with unusual or temporary matters.

These are regularly used for such matters as the adoption of a new rule of procedure or the amendment of some existing rule.

A _____________ is a provision not likely to pass on its own merit that is attached to an important measure certain to pass.

Most of the thousands of bills introduced in each session of Congress are ________________. That is, they are buried; they die in committee

The Constitution requires that bills and resolutions be sent to the President after they have passed both houses of Congress. The President then can....