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1 Jeopardy 10 20 30 40 50 Senate House of Reps About Congress Leaders of
Congress at Work 10 20 30 40 50

2 the House of Representatives is _______ years. – 10 points
The term for a member of the House of Representatives is _______ years. – 10 points Category

3 Because Congress has two houses, our legislative branch
is ____________. – 20 points Category

4 The number of representatives
in the House of Reps. in each state is based on __________. – 30 points

5 Drawing lines to favor one
political party over another is known as____________. – 40 points

6 The Supreme Court case that established the “one- person, one-vote” rule for House of Representatives districts is ___________ vs. ____________.– 50 points

7 Members of the U.S. Senate serve terms of ________ years. – 10 points

8 Add… the age that you must
be to be a U.S. Senator to the number of Senators in the U.S. Senate. – 20 points

9 What is a U.S. Senators constituency?– 30 points

10 Because only 33 or 34 U.S. Senators are up for re-election every two years, and not all of them, the U.S. Senate is considered to be a __________ _________ – 40 points

11 Name Michigan’s two United State’s Senators. – 50 points

12 The person who holds the most powerful position in the House of Reps. is known as the __________. – 10 points

13 The ________________ presides over the Senate’s proceedings.– 20 points

14 The _______________ presides over the Senate whenever the vice-president is not presiding. – 30 points

15 A __________ job is to make sure that the rest of his/her political party is voting in line with the party’s leadership. – 40 points

16 Who is the current Majority
Leader of the Senate and who is the current Speaker of the House of Representatives. – 50 points

17 Powers of Congress written
specifically in the Constitution are known as ___________ powers. – 10 points

18 Powers of Congress not written
in the Constitution are known as __________ powers. – 20 points

19 Implied powers are given to
Congress through the _______________ clause. – 30 points

20 Someone who holds very closely to the Constitution when Congressional powers are concerned are known as… ________ ____________. – 40 points

21 Someone who favors a loose interpretation of the Constitution is known as a… – 50 points

22 Changes to most bills in
Congress take place in the ___________ phase of the lawmaking process. – 10 points

23 A Committee of Congressman
who meet in regular meetings on particular issue areas are known as _____________ committees. – 20 points

24 A Committee that meets for
a limited time period that is made up of both House and Senate members. – 30 points

25 In the Senate, members are
allowed to talk a bill to death, this practice is known as a ____________. – 40 points

26 In order to stop a filibuster
_____ votes are needed. – 50 points

27 takes for a bill to become a law.
Final Jeopardy Name the 6 steps that it takes for a bill to become a law.


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