Chapter 9: Congress
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| Bicameralism - | show 🗑
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| Connecticut Compromise aka the Great Compromise - | show 🗑
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| How many years does a House representative serve in a term? | show 🗑
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| show | 6 years
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| __________________ is more concerned with local issues and the people. | show 🗑
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| show | The Senate
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| show | At-large (state) elections
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| Representatives are elected by the ___________. | show 🗑
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| True or false - 2/3 of the senators are elected every 2 years. | show 🗑
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| What is the total number of representatives in the House? | show 🗑
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| What is the total number of senators in the Senate? | show 🗑
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| True or false - The Senate doesn't have much regulation as the House. | show 🗑
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| show | False; 2/3
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| Pork barrel or earmarks - | show 🗑
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| show | Congress brings home bacon (goodies or money) that benefits the districts.
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| Log-rolling - | show 🗑
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| show | Pork barrel
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| Senator Amidele supported Senator Johnson's Health Core Bill, and Senator Johnson supports Amidele's Gun Rights Bill. This is an example of ..... | show 🗑
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| show | Discharge petition
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| True or false - When members make a discharge petition, they WILL risk themselves as the chairman's target. | show 🗑
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| show | Responsible for crafting the bill
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| show | Blend both the House and the Senate versions of the bill
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| Filibuster - | show 🗑
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| show | Filibuster
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| Discharge petition is for ________, while filibuster is for _________. | show 🗑
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| What is the first step of the legislative process? | show 🗑
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| What is the second step of the legislative process? | show 🗑
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| What is the third step of the legislative process? | show 🗑
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| What is the fourth step of the legislative process? | show 🗑
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| show | The president signs the bill, and the bill becomes a law. If vetoed, the Congress can overturn it with 2/3 majority vote from both chambers.
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| What is the difference between the legislative process in the House and that of the Senate? | show 🗑
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| show | Cloture
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| Why isn't it easy to get a cloture? | show 🗑
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| show | Bending the rules
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| The Democrats change the number of votes needed to pass a legislation from 60 to 51 in the Senate. This is an example of.... | show 🗑
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| What are the 6 powers of the elected leadership in Congress? (Part 1) (Hint: Facilitate, Appoint, Control) | show 🗑
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| What are the 6 powers of the elected leadership in Congress? (Part 2) (Hint: Facilitate, Appoint, Control) | show 🗑
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| show | - Allow people to work together as a team to reach their goals
- Keep people in place with their parties with whips
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| show | Party enforcers
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| show | Steering
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| show | Assigns members to committee based on majority party
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| show | Desire for re-election
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| show | 2
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| show | - Making sure that the implementation of the laws passed by Congress is done correctly
- Investigate executive branch, uses supoena powers, and holds hearings
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| show | Yes
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| What are the 5 roles of committee (Part 1)? | show 🗑
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| show | - Meet the majority party's policy needs
- Increases expertise (decrease uncertainty)
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