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Gov #6
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is the structure of the House of Representatives? | There is a speaker of the House that is in control and a whip that enforces the will of the speaker. ( Whip makes sure that members are voting for what the speaker wants.) |
| What is the structure of the Senate? | The president Pro-Tempore runs the meetings and the vice president is occasionally there to break a tie. There is also a whip that enforces things. |
| What is the size of the House of Representatives and the Senate? | House - 435 members ; Senate - 100 members |
| When a majority of the House votes a piece of legislation out of committee, even though the members of that committee did not vote it out of committee to floor action. | Discharge petition |
| A piece of legislation that combines multiple pieces of legislation, often with a number of riders, into one large piece of legislation | Omnibus bill |
| Anything added to a bill; often to gain support. | Rider |
| This committee is formed in order to reconcile differences between similar legislation that has passed both the House and the Senate. | Conference Committee |
| Process in which seats int eh House of Representatives are reallocated to states after each census. | Reapportionment |
| Spending that is subject to review during the budget process. (What is an example?) | Discretionary spending (Military) |
| Riders added to a bill that allocates money to a specific district or state, generally to secure the vote of the representative of that district / state. | Pork Barrel Spending |
| Specific set of powers delegated to the Senate that involve their ability to confirm government officials and ratify treaties. | Advice and consent |
| Committees that do the bulk of legislative and oversight work; generally dealing with broad areas of policy that align with cabinet level departments. | Permanent / standing committees |
| This legislative action continues to fund that government at the current level, plus a percentage. | Continuing Resolution |
| Refers to Congress' ability to monitor, review, and supervise the executive branch's enforcement of the law. | Oversight |
| What are committees? | Groups within Congress that deal with specific policy areas. *They do the bulk of Congressional work |
| Usually investigative of a signal single issue and almost always temporary. | Joint/Select committees |
| What do committees produce? | Legislation/ reforms and criminal charges |
| Groups with common identity interests in Congress. | Caucuses |
| What was framers' intentions of the House of Representatives? | It represents the people and reflects the popular will. It is emotional, chaotic, and creative. |
| What was framers' intentions of the Senate? | It represents the states, it's logical, sober, cool |
| What is the election process of the House? | 435 members, 2 year terms, need to be 25 years old, polarized, and direct election by district. |
| What is the election process of the Senate? | 100 members, 6 year terms, need to be 30 years, election by state legislation (as of 17th amendment, it is a state wide election) |
| What is the role of leadership in the House? | Hierarchical, speaker is at the top, they control the legislative agenda, committee assignments, and campaign funding. |
| What is the role of leadership in the Senate? | Cooperative, and the senators work with each other. |
| What are the rules of debate in the House? | Limited / control, there is a time restriction with certain days and times. |
| What are the rules of debate in the Senate? | Unlimited debate. |
| What is the rules committee? | They sets conditions for legislature: assign to committee, assign time for debate, open and close rule and schedule vote. |
| What is an open rule? | Amendments are allowed to be added. |
| What is a closed rule? | Members are unable to add or suggest amendments. |
| What is a filibuster? | Endless debate to prevent a vote. |
| 60 senators vote to end debate. | Cloture. |
| What is the power of the purse? | Says all spending / revenue bills must originate in the house. |
| What is the committee of the whole? | Bypasses normal committee action and moves it directly to floor action. |
| What is a germane amendment? | It is relevant to the bill. |
| What is a nongermane amendment? | It is not relevant to the bill. |
| Which house is allowed germane amendments and which house is allowed non germane amendments? | House - germane amendments Senate - nongermane amendments |
| What is unanimous consent? | Allows things to move forward without a formal vote. Consolidates procedural votes into one "yes" |
| What is a Conference Committee? | It is the group that fixes the difference in bills. |
| What is the basic process of passing legislation? | Bill written -> Sponsor -> Presented to House or Senate -> referred to committee -> committee action -> vote out of committee -> floor activity -> Conference Committee -> vote in house or Senate -> president -> regulatory activity. |
| What is the role of committees? | Controlled by the majority party in order to control agenda. Deal with broad policy areas. Legislative responsibilities are marking up legislation, vote on bills to go before full House or senate, and discharge petitions. |
| Bills get combined to secure votes; often to vote trade. | Logrolling |
| When House and Senate leadership with support of president bypass "normal order" to push a bill through. | Follow-the-leader legislation |
| What is the basic budgeting process? | Bureaucracy submits funding request to the president, then it goes to Congress. |
| Spending required by law. (What is an example?) | Mandatory spending (social security) |
| Spending more money than were taking in. | Deficit Spending |
| Party line voting (All republicans yes and democrats no) | Partisanship |
| Increasing division between ideological positions? | Polarization |
| Anytime one party doesn't control the house, Senate, and presidency. | Divided Government |
| Maps drawn to give an advantage to one party. | Gerrymandering |
| Baker vs. Carr | Judges are able to look at electoral maps with judicial review, and equal protection law forbid unequal districts. |
| Shaw vs. Reno | (1993) No racial gerrymandering ( North Carolina draw weird districts in order to get a black man in office; seen as illegal.) |
| Representative believes that their constituency trust them to vote using their judgement. | Trustee |
| Representative believes that they should reflect the will of their voters. | Delegate |
| Votes based in number of factors. | Politico |
| What did the Voting Rights Act do? | Prevented disenfranchisement of blacks in the South. Cleared electoral practices with the federal government, and created majority minority districts. |
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