Can Congress control business that happen in multiple states?

Congress cannot control business that happens in more than one state.

Can a bill become a law if only one chamber of Congress approves it?

Ultimately, a law can only be passed if both the Senate and the House of Representatives introduce, debate, and vote on similar pieces of legislation.

What can a president do to stop a bill from becoming a law?

The power of the President to refuse to approve a bill or joint resolution and thus prevent its enactment into law is the veto. The president has ten days (excluding Sundays) to sign a bill passed by Congress.

Does the exact bill have to be passed in both the House and the Senate?

A bill must pass both houses of Congress before it goes to the President for consideration. Though the Constitution requires that the two bills have the exact same wording, this rarely happens in practice. To bring the bills into alignment, a Conference Committee is convened, consisting of members from both chambers.

Who has power over interstate commerce?

Congress
The Commerce Clause refers to Article 1, Section 8, Clause 3 of the U.S. Constitution, which gives Congress the power “to regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several states, and with the Indian tribes.

Is it true that Congress can pass any law it wants to?

All legislative power in the government is vested in Congress, meaning that it is the only part of the government that can make new laws or change existing laws. The President may veto bills Congress passes, but Congress may also override a veto by a two-thirds vote in both the Senate and the House of Representatives.

What is the diff between House and Senate?

House members must be twenty-five years of age and citizens for seven years. Senators are at least thirty years old and citizens for nine years. Another difference is who they represent. Senators represent their entire states, but members of the House represent individual districts.

Does the Commerce Clause give Congress authority over interstate navigation?

Ogden is a Supreme Court case that adopted an expansive view of the scope of the Commerce Clause by holding that Congress had the power to regulate interstate commerce. The Supreme Court refined the definition of “commerce” to include all phases of business (including navigation) and not just business traffic.

Does the Commerce Clause give the government too much power?

This reading of the clause, granting virtually unlimited regulatory power over the economy to the federal government, came out of a series of Supreme Court decisions at the time of the New Deal. In its original meaning, the clause functioned primarily as a constraint upon state interference in interstate commerce.