1 / 26

The Organization & Power of Congress

The Organization & Power of Congress . Second Quiz Review. How long is a term of Congress? . How long is a term of Congress? . The length of time between national elections, two years. What did the Great Compromise do? . What did the Great Compromise do? .

trevor
Download Presentation

The Organization & Power of Congress

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. The Organization & Power of Congress Second Quiz Review

  2. How long is a term of Congress?

  3. How long is a term of Congress? The length of time between national elections, two years.

  4. What did the Great Compromise do?

  5. What did the Great Compromise do? It created a bicameral legislature where we had proportional representation, The House and The Senate

  6. Who is the Speaker of the House?

  7. Who is the Speaker of the House? The Presiding officer of the US House of Representatives, majority leader, and third in line for presidential succession.

  8. Who is it that can come up with an idea for a new bill for Congress to consider?

  9. Who is it that can come up with an idea for a new bill for Congress to consider? Anyone, even you.

  10. What do Congressional staffers do?

  11. What do Congressional staffers do? The do research, help draft new bills, investigation, and provide expertise in complicated matters

  12. How do we ratify amendments to the Constitution?

  13. How do we ratify amendments to the Constitution? We need three-quarters of the state legislatures to pass them (once, via special state convention)

  14. Why would we impeach a president or federal judge?

  15. Why would we impeach a president or federal judge? Treason, to be sure, but accepting a bribe or committing some other significant misdemeanor

  16. What is a conference committee?

  17. What is a conference committee? A committee with members of both houses of Congress, with the goal of reconciling differences between bills passed by both houses.

  18. How do lobbyists do their work?

  19. How do lobbyists do their work? They help draft new legislation in areas that affect their clients, provide expert testimony, apply pressure to opponents of legislation.

  20. How is Congress an investigatory agency?

  21. How is Congress an investigatory agency? They look for things wrong in the Executive Branch, Watergate, white water, Iran-Contra affair, Monica Lewinski…and all the rest.

  22. What are Standing Committees?

  23. What are Standing Committees? Permanent long standing committees, study new bills that fall under its jurisdiction, investigates problems that need legislative action.

  24. How does Congress impeach people?

  25. How does Congress impeach people? The house is like the Grand jury and they file the impeachment charges, the US Senate acts like the court, and they look at the evidence and vote guilty/not guilty.

  26. The End

More Related