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Political Science 11
11 Vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Bill | A proposed legislative act. |
| Cloture | A way a defeating a senate filibuster |
| Conference Committees | Joint committees formed temporarily to work out differences in House and Senate versions of a particular Bill. |
| Constituency | The people that reside in the incumbent's state or district. |
| Filibuster | a procedural tactic whereby a minority of Senators can block a Bill by talking until the other Senators give in and the Bill is withdrawn from consideration or altered to their liking. |
| Gerrymandering | The party in power divides their state into districts that favor the candidates of their particular party. |
| Incucumbent | Office-holder |
| Law | Bill signed by president |
| Lawmaking function | the authority to make laws necessary to carry out the powers granted to the national gov't |
| Logrolling | the practice of trading one's vote with another member's so that they both get what they want. |
| Mid-term election | The reelections of the House and Senate (every 4 years) |
| Open-seat election | Race with out a person running for reelection. |
| Oversight function | Congress's responsibility to see that the executive branch carries out the laws faithfully |
| Party Caucus | a meeting where member of a political party get together to decide policies and choose candidate to run for election, |
| Party Leader | a person who will lead his/her party's efforts in the chamber. |
| Party Unity | Members of a party band together on legislation and stand against political opposition. |
| Pork (an example) | federal spending projects that help out their state. (i.e: New Hospital, research center, or highway) |
| Reapportionment | a reallocation of the 435 seats in the HOR among states in proportion to their population, every 10 years. (After the population census) |
| Redistricting | The responsibility for redrawing House election districts after a reapportionment. |
| Rider | an amendment to a bill. (i.e: an anti-abortion amendment to a bill dealing with defense expenditures) |
| Service strategy | Incumbent responding to their constituents' individual requests |
| Standing Committees | (Where most of the work in congress is conducted) Permanent committees with responsibility for particular ares of public policy. |
| Select Committees | created for a specific time period and purpose. |
| The Senate majority whip | sees to it that members know when important votes are scheduled. |
| second most powerful federal official in Washington, D.C. | the Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives |
| # of voting members in the U.S. House of Representatives | 435 |
| # of voting members in the U.S. Senate | 100 |
| The Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 | requires that each bill introduced in Congress be referred to the proper committee. |
| Nearly 90 percent of contributions by PACs go to | incumbents |
| House Rules Committee | controls the scheduling of bills for debate in the U.S. House of Representatives. |
| Government Accountability Office | has primary responsibility for overseeing executive agencies' spending of money that has been appropriated by Congress |
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