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Governmenttest6
Government chapter 11 test review
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| bicameral | two house congress |
| census | taken every 10 years counts country's population; insures accurate representation |
| reapportionment | redrawing congressional district lines to reflect population shifts |
| gerrymandering | redrawing district boundaries to favor political party that control the state legislature |
| congressional district | a geographical area in a state represented by a House Member |
| single member district | having one representative elected from a given region |
| at large | basis elect united state senators |
| seventeenth amendment | direct election of senators |
| delegates | residential commissioner who represented territories and the District of Columbia |
| coalition | a temporary alliance of several groups |
| caucus | consists of all the members of a party within a house of congress |
| majority leader | the leader of the party with the most members in the house or senate |
| minority leader | is the leader of the party with the second-most members in the house or senate |
| Majority and Minority whims | in charge of communications between party members in the House or Senate |
| president pro tempore | honorary position given to the most senior member of the most senior member of the senates majority party. |
| term limits | limits the number of terms an elected official can serve |
| franking privelige | enables members of congress to send official mail free of charge |
| junkets | unnecessary trips abroad |
| standing committees | permanent committees that are generally more powerful than other types of comittees |
| select committees | created for a specific purpose, generally to investigate a particular problem |
| joint committees | composed of members from both the House and the Senate |
| conference committees | are ad hoc (temporary) committees drawn from both chambers that meet to work out a compromise agreement on a bill |
| chairs | of congressional committees have significant power |
| filibuster | formal way of preventing or delaying the passage of a bill. |
| cloture | a motion to stop a debate, and then sixty senators vote to end debate |
| pocket veto | if congress is not in session during the ten days, and the president does not sign it, the bill dies. |
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