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Poli Sci Vocab 2
ch 5,6,7
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Admininistrative Assistant | member of a lawmakers personal staff who runs their office, surpervises their schedule, and gives advice |
| At-large | as a whole |
| bicameral legislature | a two chamber legislature |
| bill | a proposed law |
| calendars | a schedule that lists the order in which bills will be considered in congress |
| caseworker | a member of the lawmakers personal staff who handels requests for help from consituents |
| cacus | a private meeting of party members to choose canidates for office |
| censure | a voite of formal dissaproval of a members actions |
| census | a population count |
| cloture | a procedure that allows each senator to only speeak for 1 hour for a bill under debate |
| committe staff | the people who work for the senate and hosue committies |
| conference committe | a temporary joint committe set upo when the house and senate have passed different versions of the same bill |
| constituents | a person whom a member of congress has elected to represent |
| filibuster | a method of defeating a bill in the senate by stalling the legislative process and rpeventing a vote |
| gerrymander | to draw a districts boundaries to gain an advantage in election |
| incubent | elected official that is already in office |
| joint committe | a committe of the house and senate that acts as a study group and reports their findings back to teh H and S |
| Legislative Assistant | a member of a lawmaker's personal staff that makes certain that the lawmaker is well informed |
| majority leader | the speaker's top assistant, they plan the majority party's legislative program and steer improtant bills througth the hosue |
| personal staff | the perople who work for individual senators and reps. |
| president pro tempore | head of the senate in the Vp's absence |
| quorum | the minimum # of legistators for a legis. body to take official action |
| reapportionment | the process opf reaasigning representatives after the census |
| redistrict | to set up new district lines after reapportionment |
| select committe | a temporary committe formed to look into a certain issue, reports to H and S |
| seniortiy system | leadership of the committe goes the the person who has served the msot time |
| session | a period of time in which a legislatue meets to conduct buisness |
| standing committee | a permanent cimmittee in confress that oversees bills and deals with certain kinds of issues |
| subcommittee | a group wihting a standing committe that specializes in a certain area |
| whips | as assistant to the party floor leader |
| appropriations bill | a proposed law to authorize spending money |
| contempt | willful obstuction of justice |
| expressed powers | powers directly stated in the constitution |
| immunity | freedom from procecution by criminals |
| impeachment | a formal accusation of misconduct in office against a public official |
| implied powers | powers that the government requires to carry out the expressed powers |
| impoundment | the presidents refusal of a congress approved money spending plan |
| insterstate commerce | trade among the states |
| legislative veto | Checks and balences the leg. branch gets |
| national budget | yearly financial plan for the nation |
| nessescary and proper clause | elastic clause, allows congress to make laws |
| perjury | lying under oath |
| revenue bill | a law proposed to raise money |
| subpoena | a legal order that a person appear of produce requested document |
| appropriations | approval of governmetn spending |
| appropriations | approval of government spending |
| authorization bill | a bill that sets up a federal program and specifies how much money may be approprtiated for teh program |
| casework | a work that a lwamaker does to help consituents with problesm |
| entitlement | a required government expendature that contines from one year to the next |
| hearing | a session at which a committee listens to testimony from people interested in a bill |
| lobbying | direct contact made by a lobbyist in order to persade government officials |
| logrolling | an affreement by two or more lawmakers to support each others bills |
| pocket veto | when a president KILLS a bill passed during teh last 10 days of congress by basically ignoring it |
| pork-barrel legislation | laws passed by conress that appropriate moneyf for local federal projects |
| private bill | a bill dealing wiht individual people or places |
| public bill | a bill dealing with general matters and applying to the entire nation |
| rider | an off topic addion to a bill |
| simple resolution | a statement adopted to conver matters affecting only one house of congress |
| tax | the money that peple an dbuisnesses pay to support goovernment |
| veto | rejection of a bill |
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