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Chapter 12 Congress
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Bicameral legislature | a legislature that is divided into two chambers |
| Bill | a proposed law, drafted in precise, legal language |
| Casework | helping constituents as individuals cut through bureaucratic red tape to receive their rightful benefits. |
| Caucus | a grouping of members of Congress sharing some interest or characteristic. |
| Committee chairs | the most important influences on the congressional agenda; they schedule hearings, hire staff, appoint subcommittees, and manage committee bills |
| Conference committee | a special committee formed when each chamber passes a bill in different forms, composed of members of each chamber who were appointed by each chamber’s leaders to work out a compromise bill. |
| Filibuster | is unlimited debate, is unique to the Senate, and can only be ended by a vote for cloture by 60 members. |
| House Rules Committee | a committee unique to the House, which is appointed by the Speaker of the House, reviews most bills coming from a House committee for a floor vote, and which gives each bill a rule. |
| Incumbents | people who already hold office. |
| Legislative oversight | the process of monitoring the bureaucracy and its administration of policy. |
| Majority leader | : the Speaker’s principal partisan ally who is responsible for soliciting support for the party’s position on legislation. |
| Minority leader | is the minority party’s counterpart to the majority party’s leadership. |
| Pork barrel | list of federal projects, grants, and contracts available to cities, businesses, colleges, and institutions. |
| Seniority system | A simple rule for picking committee chairs, in effect until the 1970s. The member who had served on the committee the longest and whose party controlled Congress became chair, regardless of party loyalty, mental state, or competence |
| Standing Committees | Separate subject-matter committees in each house of Congress that handle bills in different policy areas. |
| Joint Committees | Congressional committees on a few subject-matter areas with membership drawn from both houses. |
| select committees | Congressional committees appointed for a specific purpose, such as the Watergate investigation. |
| whips | Party Leaders who work with the majority leader or minority leader to count votes beforehand and lean on waverers whose votes are crucial to a bill favored by a party. |
| Speaker of the House | An office mandated by the Constitution. chosen in practice by the majority party, has both formal and informal powers, and is second in line to succeed to the presidency should the office become vacant. |
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