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Ap gov chapter 4 voc
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Pork barrel spending | legislation that works specific funds to projects within districts or states |
| Logrolling | Trading of votes on legislation by members of congress to get their earmarks passed into legislation |
| Oversight | Efforts by congress to ensure that executive branch agencies and cabinet departments as well as their officials are acting legally and in accordance with congressional goals |
| Constituency | A body of voter in a given area who elect a representative or senator |
| Apportionment | The process of determining the number of representatives for each state using census data |
| Redistricting | States redrawing of boundaries of electoral districts following each census |
| Gerrymandering | The intentional use of redistricting to benefit a specific interest or group of voters |
| Partisan gerrymandering | Drawing of districts foundries into strange shapes to benefit political party |
| Majority minority district | A district in which voters of a minority ethnicity constitute an electoral majority within electoral district |
| Malaspportionment | The uneven distribution of population among legislative districts |
| Incumbency | Being already an office as opposed to running for the first time |
| Incumbency advantage | Institutional advantages held by those in office we’re trying to fit off challengers and election |
| Speaker of the house | The leader of the house of representatives, chosen by election of its members |
| Political action committee | And organization that raises money for candidates in |
| House majority leader | The person who is second in command of the house of representives |
| Whip | A member of Congress, chosen by his or her party members whose job in Center party, unity and discipline |
| Minority leader | The head of the party with the second highest number of seats in congress, chosen by the party members |
| Senate majority leader | The person who has the most power in the Senate, and is the head of the party with the most seats |
| Committee chair | Leader of a congressional committee, who has authority over the committee agenda |
| Discharge petition | A motion filed by a member of Congress to move a bill out of community and onto the floor of House Representatives for a vote |
| House rules committee | |
| Committe of the whole | |
| Hold | |
| Unanimous consent agreement | |
| Filibuster | |
| Cloture | |
| Veto | |
| Office of management and budget | |
| Entitlement program | |
| Mandatory spending | |
| Discretionary spending | |
| Budget surplus | |
| Budget deficit | |
| National debt | |
| Delégate role | |
| Trustee Role | |
| Político rile | |
| Bipartisanship | |
| Gridlock | |
| Divided government | |
| Lame duck period | |
| A powrrful Community determines when a bill will be subject to the debate on the house floor, and how long the debate will last and whether amendments will be allowed on the floor | |
| Consist of allmembers of the house and meets in house chamber, but is governed by different rules, making easy to consider complex and controversial legislation | |
| A delay placed on legislation by a senator who objects a bill | |
| An agreement in the Senate that states the terms for consideration of a bill | |
| Atactic through which an individual senator may use the right of unlimited debate to delay, emotion, or post pone action on a piece of legislation | |
| A procedure through which senators can, and debate on a bill and proceed to action provided, 60 senators agreed to it | |
| The power of a president to reject a bill, passed by Congress, sending it back to the originating branch with objections | |
| The executive branch office that assist the president in setting national spending priorities | |
| A program that provides benefits for those who qualify under the law, regardless of income | |
| Spending required by existing laws that is locked in the budget | |
| Spending for programs and policies at the discretion of Congress and the president | |
| The amount of money remaining when the government takes in more than expense spends | |
| The shortfall, when the government takes in less money than spends | |
| The total amount of money owed by the federal government | |
| The idea that the main duty of a member of Congress is to carry out constitutes wishes | |
| The idea that members of Congress should act as trustees, making decisions based on their knowledge and judgement | |
| Representation where members of Congress balance, their choices with the interest of their constituents and parties, and making decisions | |
| Agreement between the parties to work together in Congress to pass legislation | |
| A slow down or halt in Congress ability to legislate and overcome divisions, especially those based on partisanship | |
| Control of the presidency, and one or both chambers of Congress split between two major parties | |
| Period at the end of presidential term when Congress me block, presidential initiatives, and nominees |
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