AP GOV VOCAB 12
Quiz yourself by thinking what should be in
each of the black spaces below before clicking
on it to display the answer.
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| incumbents | show 🗑
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| show | activities of members of congress that help constituents as individuals; cutting through bureaucratic red tape to get people what they think they have a right to get
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| pork barrel | show 🗑
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| bicameral legislature | show 🗑
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| show | an institution unique to the house of representatives that reviews all bills coming from a house committee before they go to the full house
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| filibuster | show 🗑
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| speaker of the house | show 🗑
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| show | the principal partisan ally of the speaker of the house or the party's wheel horse in the senate
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| whips | show 🗑
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| show | the principal leader of the minority party in the house of representatives or in the senate
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| standing committees | show 🗑
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| joint committees | show 🗑
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| conference committees | show 🗑
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| select committees | show 🗑
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| show | congress's monitoring of the bureaucracy and its administration of policy, performed mainly through hearings
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| committee chairs | show 🗑
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| show | a simple rule for picking committee chairs, in effect until the 1970s
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| show | a group of members of congress sharing some interest or characteristic
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| bill | show 🗑
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