Unit 3

Question 1

List the KY Congressman

Answer 1

Tom Massie, Mitch McConnell, and Rand Paul

Question 2

What are the terms of Congressional Sessions?

Answer 2

1. Last 2 years
2. They have breaks for vacations & holidays
3. Between January and November
4. The president can call special sessions

Question 3

Membership of the House

Answer 3

It is the larger chamber with currently 435 seats. There are no set number of seats because the number of seats is divided on population. Every state must have one seat, no matter its size.

Question 4

What are the qualifications for Representatives?

Answer 4

1. 25 years old
2. Citizen for 7 years
3. You have to be a legal resident of the state

Question 5

What are the terms of office for Representatives?

Answer 5

1. 2 year term to meet the immediate need of people
2. 90% are reelected
3. There are special elections to fill vacancies

Question 6

What is the National Census?

Answer 6

The count of the U.S. population every 10 years

Question 7

What decides how many reps each state gets?

Answer 7

Apportionment

Question 8

What is it called when State legislatures set districts and elect reps for them.?

Answer 8

Redistricting

Question 9

What happens of Redistricting is abused?

Answer 9

It creates unequal districts and Gerrymanding

Question 10

What is Gerrymanding?

Answer 10

Packing & Cracking

Question 11

Membership of the Senate?

Answer 11

1. 2 senators for each state
2. Allows equality and protection for smaller states
3. There is a total of 100 senators

Question 12

What are the qualifications for Senators?

Answer 12

1. 30 years old
2. Citizen for 9 years
3. You have to be a legal resident of the state

Question 13

What are the terms of office for Senators?

Answer 13

1. Statewide elections on the even years
2. 6 year term
3. 1/3 run for reelection
4. There are special elections to fill vacancies

Question 14

What is Potpourri?

Answer 14

1. Congress can set their own salary
2. they can’t be arrested while fulfilling duties, except for treason, felony, or a breach of the peace
3. Most are lawyers
4. 90% win reelection

Question 15

What is the Necessary and Proper Clause also known as?

Answer 15

The elastic clause

Question 16

What allows Congress to stretch its powers?

Answer 16

The Necessary and Proper Clause

Question 17

What gives authorization to spend & levy taxes?

Answer 17

The Power of the Purse

Question 18

What are laws proposed to raise money?

Answer 18

Revenue Bills?

Question 19

What are Proposed laws to authorize spending?

Answer 19

Appropriation Bills

Question 20

What are the Foreign Policy powers?

Answer 20

They can set a budget for national defense, declare war & peace, and the War Power Act. Which states that the president needs congressional approval within 60 days of the beginning for the military act.

Question 21

What is the Commerce Clause?

Answer 21

It regulates interstate commerce for almost all business and regulates working conditions

Question 22

What is it called when Congress can make anyone a citizen?

Answer 22

Naturalization

Question 23

What protects publications, logos, and trade marks?

Answer 23

Copyright

Question 24

What Protects intellectual property and designs?

Answer 24

Patent

Question 25

What are other powers of the Congress?

Answer 25

They can establish post offices and federal courts

Question 26

How do they choose the President?

Answer 26

They count the votes. If there is no majority winner then the House chooses the president and the Senate chooses the vice president.

Question 27

What is Impeachment?

Answer 27

The power to remove people from office. The House casts the vote, while the senate holds the trial.

Question 28

What does Confirmation do?

Answer 28

It checks presidential appointments

Question 29

What gives advice or consent to foreign treaties and needs 2/3 votes be senate?

Answer 29

Ratification

Question 30

What allows congress to ge?t around the Constitution and Supreme Court decisions

Answer 30

Amendment

Question 31

How does a bill become a law?

Answer 31

1. A bill starts as an idea in someone’s brain.
2. You need to get a congressman to sponsor your bill because it is important to the congressman and important to constituents.
3. The bill is then sent to the House and put in a Hopper to wait its turn to be read on the house floor and referred to a committee.
4. The committee then debates & makes changes to the bill before it is voted upon. If they vote yes, then the bill is sent to house or subcommittee. If they vote no, then the bill dies.
5. When the bill is sent to the House floor, members debate and sometimes Amendments can be offered.
6. After they debate, they read the bill and vote on it; either voting yes, no, or present. If majority passes it, then it is referred to the Senate.
7. In the Senate it goes through the same process that it did in the House, but this time, if they pass it then it is enrolled and sent to the president.
8. The president then has three options; to sign it and make it a law, to pocket it and if he doesn’t sign it in ten days then it automatically becomes a law, or to veto it and kill it.
9. If the bill is vetoed, then it is sent back Congress to be voted on again. If 2/3 of Congress passes the bill, then the veto is overridden.