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AP Gov
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Senate Leadership | US Vice Pres - VP pro tempore - majority/ minority leaders - maj./min. whip |
| filibuster | action designed to prolong debate and delay or prevent a vote on a bill |
| double tracking | all other senate business is being diverted during filibuster so some stuff can still get done |
| unanimous consent | an agreement in the senate that sets the terms for the consideration of a bill |
| house of representatives | 435 members directly elected by the people of their congressional districts |
| money in the house | the house initiates all tax and revenue bills |
| impeachment | The process of drawing up charges of wrongdoing against an individual |
| house party structure | speaker of the house - maj/min leaders (floor leaders) - party whip |
| party whip | in charge of party discipline |
| floor debate- house | speaker of the house recognizes members for floor speeches |
| house rule committee | can easily dispose of a bill or define the guidelines |
| discharge petition | majority of the house can vote to force a bill out of committee -60 votes is the majority |
| committee of the whole | consists of the entire house of representatives goverened by different rules of the house making it faster and easier to consider complex and contraversial legislation |
| standing committee | made up of leadership in the house and senate proposed bills are referred here first most bills dont make it out of committee hold hearings to interperate laws after passage |
| joint committee | include both representatives and senators |
| conference committee | to resolve differences in senate and house versions of the same bill |
| committee chairs | leader of a congressional committee has influence over a committees agenda |
| power of the purse | congress creates and passes a federal budget |
| discretionary spending | spending that has to be authorized every year by congress and the president (defense and education) |
| mandatory spending | spending that does not have to be approved annually can only be changed by a new legislation over 2/3 of federal spending |
| entitlement programs | provide benefits to the ppl who are entitled to them by law |
| social security and medicare | social security creates a federal safety net for the elderly medicare is a gov run health insurance program for the elderly |
| fiscal policy | government spending and taxation |
| budget deficit | spending exceeds revenue (bad) |
| budget surplus | revenue is greater than spending (good) |
| balanced budget | revenue = expenditures |
| national debt | total amt that a country's gov has borrowed |
| pork barrel | funds earmarked for specific purposes in a legislators district |
| log rolling | "you do this for me, i do this for you" when various represnetatives support each others bills to help the other get passed bc there is something in it for each of them |
| redistricting | reshaping of congressional districts based on population shifts |
| quorum | the minimum number of members who must be present to permit a legislative body to take official action. |
| partisanship | divided government |
| reapportionment | process of dividing seats for the House among the 50 states following the decennial census |
| reconciliation | a way for the majority party to avoid a filibuster |
| vote a rama | allows ppl to add amendments to the bill and everyone votes on all amendments proposed by reps |
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