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| How many U.S. Senators are there? |
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| How long does a Senator serve a term? |
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| What number is a "quorum" in Senate? |
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| How many Senators does Minnesota have? |
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| Who is charge of the Senate? |
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| The Vice President of the U.S. |
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| What is the minimum number of Representatives a state must have in the House of Representatives? |
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| What is the minimum age that a Representative must be? |
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| All bills involving money must begin in which house? |
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| When the V.P. is not available who is in charge of the Senate? |
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| If a state has 29 electoral votes, how many representatives does the state have? |
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| What are the 3 Branches of government? |
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| Legislative, Executive, Judicial |
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| What is the job of the Legislative Branch of government? |
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| When does Congress convene? |
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| How do we decide how many representatives each state should have? |
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| According to our founding fathers, if your government isn’t serving your needs you have the duty to ______. |
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| Who is in charge of the House of Representatives? |
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| How does the President Pro Tempore get his job? |
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| Direct vote of the Senate |
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| Our government is self-governing so we call this country a _______. |
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| What is a TWO-house legislature called? |
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| When a Senator talks endlessly to delay action on a bill. |
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| What does the rules committee do? |
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1.Send a bill to its proper committee
2.Make specific rules for individual bills |
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| Can the Vice President vote on Senate issues? |
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| A Senator must be at least _____ years old to be elected. |
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| The number necessary to legally do business (in our government 1 more than half) |
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| How many representatives are in the House of Representatives? |
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| A representative’s term of office is ____ years. |
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| What are the names of the 2 houses in our government? |
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| House of Representatives and Senate |
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| A representative must have been a U.S. citizen for _____ years. |
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| The Speaker of the House must always be a member of the ______ party. |
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| A senator must have been a U.S. citizen for ______ years. |
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| Who elects The Speaker of the House? |
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| To keep one branch from gaining too much power, we have a system of ______ and ______. |
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| What fraction of our Senators is elected every 2 years? |
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| When the population of the U.S. is officially counted, we call that count a _____. |
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| A committee, which consists of members from both houses, is called a ______ committee. |
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| When a vetoed bill is re-passed by 2/3 of both houses, this is referred to as an ________. The bill then becomes a law. |
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| If Congress adjourns before the President acts on a bill, he may refuse to sign it. This is called a _____ veto. |
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| What majority is required to override the President’s veto? |
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| Neither house may adjourn for more than 3 days without what? |
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| Permission of the other house |
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| What is the supreme law of the land? |
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| A record of what goes on is printed in the _____ _____. |
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| The Constitution grants all law making powers to whom? |
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| In our system of government, the Constitution gets authority from _____. |
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