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| What term limits debate on a bill in the Senate to 1 hour per senator? | Cloture |
| This term describes when the House of Representatives meets with at least 100 members present to debate or amend a bill, but they cannot vote to pass or reject it. | Committee of the Whole |
| Which type of committee means they continue from one session to the next? | Standing committee |
| What type of resolution covers matters affecting only one house of Congress and does not need the President's signature? | Simple resolution |
| Who is the President of the Senate? | The Vice President of the United States |
| What is total number of senators with voting privileges in the Senate? | 100 |
| This power is used when the President rejects a bill. | Veto |
| In this step of the bill process, the committee sends a written document that explains their actions, describes the bill, lists changes they made, and gives opinions on the bill. | Reporting a bill |
| How many years must you be a citizen of the United States to be a member of the Senate? | 9 |
| How old must you be to be a member of the Senate? | 30 |
| What percentage of votes are needed in both houses to override a President's veto? | 2/3 |
| How many years is the term of office for the Senate? | 6 |
| This type of resolution covers matters requiring the action of both the House and Senate, but a law is not needed. | Concurrent resolution |
| Who is the leader of the House of Representatives? | The Speaker of the House |
| How many years is the term of office for the House of Representatitves? | 2 |
| What is total number of representatives with voting privileges in the House of Representatives? | 435 |
| What step of the process of a bill becoming a law allows members of the committee to make changes to the bill. | Markup session |
| This power is used when a President refuses to sign a bill during the last 10 days of the session and it is killed for that session. | Pocket veto |
| How many years must you be a citizen of the United States to be a member of the House of Representatives? | 7 |
| How old must you be to be a member of the House of Representatives? | 25 |
| What term describes the act of drawing district boundaries to give one party an electoral advantage? | Gerrymandering |
| The duties of the Speaker of the House include | Appoints members of committees, schedules bills for action, referring bills to proper committees |
| Who is considered the Speaker of the House's top assistant? | Majority leader |
| These are temporary committees that study one specific issue and report their findings back to either the House or Senate. | Select committee |
| In the process of a bill becoming a law, in what step can members of Congress reject, ignore, rewrite or amend a bill, and hold hearings? | Committee action |
| In the House of Representatives, which committee has the ability to move bills ahead of others, hold them back, or stop them completely? | The House Rules Committee |
| What term means the minimum number of members needed for official legislative action? | Quorum |
| What term means to extend debate to prevent a bill from coming to a vote? | Filibuster |
| This type of committee is made up from members from both the House and Senate. | Joint committee |
| What type of resolution is passed in the same form by both houses, can be signed by the President, and is often used to correct an error in an earlier law? | Joint resolution |
| This is used by members of Congress to specify that some part of a funding bill goes toward a certain purpose. | Earmark |
| What is the first step in the process of a bill becoming a law? | Introducing a bill |
| This power allows a leader to reject specific lines in a bill while accepting the rest of the bill, but the President does not have this power. | Line-Item Veto |
| What percentage of votes are needed in each house to pass a bill and send it to the President for a signature? | Simple majority |
| What type of committee is setup when the House and the Senate have passed different versions of a bill and they need to negotiate out the differences? | Conference committee |
