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The Legislative Branch

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Horizontales
____ laws are laws that deal with the raising and spending of money and must begin in the House.
In case of a tie, or if there is no majority of votes, the House of Representatives chooses the _____ of the U.S.
Congress' powers are limited in that they cannot pass legislation which favors one ___ over another, especially in regards to commerce.
Every ten years a ____ (or official population count) is taken and is used for apportionment.
In the House of Representatives, representation is determined on the basis of ____.
In impeachment cases, the Supreme Court Chief Justice is supposed to preside, with the Senate members acting as the ___.
A senator serves for ____ years.
One check on congressional power is the ability of the Supreme Court to declare laws ____.
While Congress is in session, both the Senate and the House of Representatives have ___ from arrest unless they are charged with a serious crime.
Charges of ____ are started in the House of Representatives.
With the case of ____ v. Sims, the courts ruled that the districts should be divided as equally as possible; "one man, one vote."
In the Senate, each state has ___ representatives.
There are 435 members in the ____.
___ (write out as fraction) of all Senators is up for election every two years.
Congress's powers are limited because there are specific powers reserved to the _____, such as drinking age laws, etc.
Verticales
Congress cannot tax ____ but CAN tax imports.
When district lines are created to favor one political party over another, it is known as _____.
Only Congress, (and NOT The president) have the authority to declare ____.
All appropriation bills must begin in the ____.
The Senate has representatives _____ (three words), at two senators for each state.
One of the powers denied to Congress is the power to grant titles of _____
The number of representatives each state has is ____, or distributed, every ten years.
The ____ chooses the Vice-President if no candidate receives a majority of electoral votes.
Powers set aside for Congress (found in Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution) are known are known as delegated, expressed or ____ powers.
____ is made up of the House of Representatives and the Senate.
A ___ is a proposed law.
An executive check on laws passed by Congress is the ___, and authoritative "no" by the president.