AP US Government Ch. 11 Wilson - Kinnick
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| What are the bicameral legislatures that make up Congress? | show 🗑
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| show | Supreme Court
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| show | Parliament is people loyal to the national party who meet, debate, & vote on party issues. Congress is people who consider themsleves as independent reps of their districts who usually go with their parties' but stick to their own beliefs as well.
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| show | • Collect taxes
• Borrow money
• Regulate trade
• Establish Bankruptcy codes
• Coin money
• Establish post offices
• Provide a military
• Provide a militia
• Make all necessary and proper laws
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| show | House: 435 members
Senate: 100 members
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| show | The House wants to be both big and powerful and it's member want to be both powerful as an individual and as a group.
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| How are the Senates chosen? | show 🗑
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| What is the Millionaires' Club? | show 🗑
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| show | A prolonged speech given by a small group of senators in an attempt to delay legislative action or to drop the action completely.
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| show | Rulle 22 provided that a filibuster debate if two-thirds of the senators present and voting agreed to a "cloture" motion
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| show | A middle-aged white Protestant male lawyer
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| What is the difference between marginal districts and safe districts? | show 🗑
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| What are three theories on congressional behavior? Explain each. | show 🗑
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| show | Voting for one party's presidential candidate and another party's congressional candidate.
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| show | The majority party choses a member of it's party, usually the one with the most seniority.
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| show | A whip.
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| What is the role of a majority leader in the Senate? | show 🗑
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| show | The Speaker
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| Who carries more leadership power: the House or Senate? | show 🗑
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| What's it called when a vote in which a majority of voting Democrats oppose a majority of voting Republicans? | show 🗑
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| show | Some say:
- Congressional districts are drawn for the House
- Congress and the people have become more partisan
- Seniority
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| show | A caucus is an associtaion of members of Congress created to advocate a political ideology or a regional or economic interest.
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| What are the 6 identified caucuses? | show 🗑
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| show | If a bill isn't passed by both Houses and signed by the President within the life of one Congress, it's dead.
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| show | Simple, concurrent, and joint
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| How does a bill become a law? | show 🗑
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| show | 218 members
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| What is the difference between a closed rule, open rule, and restrictive rule? | show 🗑
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| show | 1) A member can move that the rules be suspended, requiring a 2/3 votes
2) A discharged petitions
3) The House can use the "Calendar Wednesday" procedure
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| What’s a rider? | show 🗑
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| show | When a bill carries several riders.
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| show | The 100 members of the Committee of the Whole.
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| show | 3/5 of the entire Senate
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| show | A voice vote is memebers yelling "yea" or "nay". A division vote is members standing & being counted. A teller vote is when the members pass through 2 tellers, the "yea" first and the "nay" second. A roll-call vote is members answering to their names.
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| show | The piece of legislation that gives districts their benefits.
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| Members of Congress are allowed to send free mail by using their facsimile signature. What is another name for this? | show 🗑
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| show | False. Lobbists are not allowed to give any gifts or pay for anything for a Congressman, even if they're family.
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