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How can the Senate end a filibuster?

By a cloture resolution: 3/5s vote

wtf is svdpp???

sign, veto, do nothing, pass, pocket veto

In order to Amend a bill during floor debate in either house, this is required

What is a majority vote?

A bill about education may contain details about factory emissions if the bill contains

What is a rider?

How do members of the House or Senate punish other member for disorderly conduct?

What is censure?

Besides voting against a bill, what is another way a congressional committee can kill a bill?

What is ignore it?

Where do bills involving tax revenue begin?

What is the House?

After tax laws are passed by the House, who has the power to amend them?

What is the Senate?

Who presides over the House and is the most powerful leader of it?

What is the Speaker of the House?

In which committee is all the important work done related to tax laws?

What is the ways and means committee?

Who is the top assistant to the Speaker of the House?

What is the whip?

When does a bill become a law?

When the President signs it

If a vote in the Senate results in a tie, who can break that tie?

Who is the Vice President?

There are two types of congressional bills. A bill to commemorate Phineas Baker Wade Day is what kind of bill is it: public or private?

It is a private congressional bill.

How is a bill introduced in the House?

It is dropped in a designated box

How is Congress organized to review bills and figure out whether they will work?

It is organized in Committees

Identify one reason why it is hard to get a bill passed.

Multiple answers: Unwilling to compromise or Checks and Balances

When the President ignores a bill on their desk after 10 days and Congress is no longer in session, this is called a

Pocket Veto

How can one senator prevent a bill from coming to a final vote?

What is a filibuster?

Where does the federal government get most of its revenue from?

Taxes.

Who are the most powerful leaders of the Senate?

The Majority and Minority Leaders

What is one way that a congressional committee can kill a bill?

They can ignore it

Where does most of the debate of a bill take place?

What are committees?

Veterans' pensions and Social Security are examples of:

What are entitlement programs?

Who awards federal grants and contracts? (example, the National Institute for Health funds clinical research studies)

What are government agencies?

What types of bills deal with individual people or places?

What are private bills?


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