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gov chapter 5
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Filibuster | A method of defeating a bill in the Senate by stalling the legistlstive process and preventing a vote. |
| Speaker of the House | The most powerful leader. Can decide which members to recognize first, appoints members of some committees, schedules bills for action, and refers bills to the proper House committee, the speaker of the house follows the vice president in line to presiden |
| Majority Floor leader | The Speaker’s top assistant whose job is to help plan the majority party’s legislative program and to steer important bills through the house. |
| Majority whip | Serve as assistant floor leaders in the house. Their job is to watch how majority party members intend to vote on bills, to pressure them to vote as the party wishes, and see if the party members are present to vote. |
| Constituent | A person whom a member of congress has been elected to represent. |
| House Rules Committee | It is the traffic officer, helping to direct the flow of major legislation. It has great influence over legislative activity and how bills progress through Congress. |
| Lower house | The House has the sole power to impeach federal officials,revenue bills: The House has exclusive power to introduce revenue bills,electoral college tie: In the event of a tie in the Electoral College, the House elects the president. |
| Upper house | advice and consent: The Senate has the power to advise and consent on treaties and presidential appointments, impeachment trials: The Senate holds trials for impeached officials. |
| US House of Representatives Qualifications | 25 years old, be citizens of US for 7 years, and be legal residents of the state that ulcers them/ live in the district they represent. |
| Senate Qualifications | 30 years old, citizen of the US for 9 years before election, and legal resident of the state they represent. |
| Sub committee | A sub-committee is a small group of people assigned to focus on a particular task or area, such as finance or personnel |
| Select Committee | A temporary committee established to investigate specific issues or conduct special studies that fall outside the purview of standing committees |
| Bicameral legislature: | A two chamber legislature. It is made up of two very different parts of Congress, called houses-- The Senate and House of Representatives. |
| Congress-How many total members: | 100 |
| Committee Chairperson: | A member of a legislative body, like Congress, appointed or elected to lead a specific committee, responsible for managing its activities, setting agendas, and presiding over meetings. |
| President pro-tem | Preside over the Senate in the absence of the vice president |
| Caseworker | A type of legislative staffer by legislators to provide service to their constituents such as dealing with individual or family concerns. |
| Gerrymandering | To draw district boundaries to gain advantage in elections. |
| Unanimous Consent | A motion by all members of the Senate who are present to set aside formal rules and consider a bill from the calendar. |
| Duties of the press secretary: | The primary role of the Press Secretary is to ensure that the Agency's objectives and achievements are communicated efficiently and effectively to the media. |
| Standing Committees | A permanent legislative committee established to oversee specific policy areas, review legislation, and conduct hearings. |
| Conference Committees: | A temporary, bicameral committee formed by the House and Senate to resolve disagreements on a bill that has passed both chambers, ensuring a unified version before it goes to the president for approval. |
| Joint committee: | A legislative committee made up of members from both the House of Representatives and the Senate, designed to facilitate cooperation and streamline the legislative process on issues of shared interest |
| Mike Johnson | Republican speaker of the house |
| Seniority system | The seniority system is the traditional practice in the House whereby certain prerogatives and positions are made available to those Members with the longest continuous service in the House or on committee. |
| Cloture Resolution | : A procedure that allows each senator to speak only one hour on a bill under debate. |
| Quorum | The minimum number of members who must be present to permit a legislative body to take official action. |
| Legislative Director | Is a key staff member who monitors and evaluates legislative, regulatory, and legal activities, advising on policy and legislative strategies, and often supervising other legislative staff. |
| Reapportionment: | the process of assigning representation based on population, after every census. |
| House minority leader | The minority leader is responsible for leading the minority party in the U.S. House of Representatives. These responsibilities include speaking for the party and its policies, protecting the minority's rights, and nominating minority party Members to comm |
| Hold | A motion placed on a bill in the Senate that alerts party leaders that if unanimous consent were to be sought, they would object. |
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