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Question 1

min age limit for senate and house

Answer 1

senate – 30
house – 25

Question 2

number of years of citizenship for senate and house

Answer 2

9 for senate, 7 for house

Question 3

what did the 17th amendment do

Answer 3

call for direct election of senators

Question 4

economic powers of congress

Answer 4

levy taxes, coin money, borrow money, regulate INTERSTATE trade (not intrastate) and foreign commerce

all bills to raise revenue must be generated in the house

Question 5

what house ratifies treaties and what fraction need to affirm

Answer 5

senate; 2/3s

Question 6

national security powers of congress

Answer 6

declare war; raise an army; supress insuructions; punish felonies commited on the high seas

Question 7

which branch of congress issues orders of impeachment and which votes on removal from office

Answer 7

house does impeachment - senate gets

Question 8

What is the CBO

Answer 8

Congressional budgeting office; provides congress with info

Question 9

pork barrel spending

Answer 9

spending for the sake of a representative’s district

Question 10

earmarking

Answer 10

marking for pork barrel spending

Question 11

logrolling

Answer 11

voting on other peoples’ earmarked policies so they vote for urs

Question 12

how much of the congress and senate are needed to impeach and convict

Answer 12

majority to impeach, 2/3s to convict

Question 13

who has power in the house

Answer 13

speaker of the house has the most
then house majority leader
then majority whip

then minority leader and minority whip

Question 14

who has power in the senate

Answer 14

the president pro tempure is the technical leader but the majority leader holds way more power