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AP Gov legislature
Legislature, congress
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Appropriation | money that Congress has allocated to be spent |
| Appropriations Committee | congressional committee that deals with federal spending |
| Casework | personal work done by a member of Congress for his constituents |
| Closed rule | Rules Committee rule that bans amendments to a bill |
| Cloture | Senate motion to end a filibuster that requires a 3/5 vote |
| Conference Committee | works out a compromise between differing House and Senate versions of a bill |
| Constituents | the people who are represented by elected officials |
| Discharge petition | a motion to force a bill to the House floor that has been bottled up in committee |
| Filibuster | nonstop Senate debate that prevents a bill from coming to a vote |
| Finance Committee | Senate committee that handles tax bills |
| Franking privilege | allows members of Congress to send mail postage free |
| Gerrymandering | redrawing district lines to favor one party at the expense of the other |
| Hold | Senate maneuver that allows a Senator to stop or delay consideration of a bill or presidential appointment |
| Legislative oversight | ongoing process of congressional monitoring of the executive branch to ensure that the latter complies with the law |
| Legislative veto | process in which Congress overturned rules and regulations proposed by executive branch agencies. Struck down by the courts in 1983. |
| Logrolling | when two members of Congress agree to vote for each other’s bill |
| Mark up | committee action to amend a proposed bill |
| Open rule | House Rules Committee rule that allows amendments to a bill |
| Pork barrel | wasteful congressional spending, e.g. funding for a Lawrence Welk museum in North Dakota |
| Quorum | minimum number of members needed for the House or Senate to meet |
| Reapportionment | reallocation of House seats to the states on the basis of changes in state populations, as determined by the census |
| Redistricting | redrawing of congressional district boundaries by the party in power of the state legislature |
| Rider | amendment to a bill that has little to do with that bill. Also known as a nongermane amendment |
| Rules Committee | the “traffic cop” of the House that sets the legislative calendar and issues rules for debate on a bill |
| Seniority system | tradition in which the Senator from the majority party with the most years of service on a committee becomes the chairman of that committee |
| Standing committees | the permanent congressional committees that handle legislation |
| Sunset laws | laws that automatically expire after a given time |
| Ways and Means Committee | House committee that handles tax bills |
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