Ap Gov Congress
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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| show | Those already holding office
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| Pork Barrel | show 🗑
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| Casework | show 🗑
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| show | A legislature divided into two houses
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| House Rules Committee | show 🗑
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| show | A strategy unique to the Senate whereby opponents of a bill try to talk it to death, based on the tradition of unlimited debate
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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 manager in the Senate. -Is responsible for scheduling bills, influencing committee assignments, and rounding up votes in behalf of the party's legislative positions
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| show | Party leaders who work with the majority leader or minority leader to count votes beforehand and lean on wavers whose votes are crucial to a bill favored by a party
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| Minority Leader | show 🗑
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| show | Separate subject-matter committees in each house of Congress that handle bills in different policy areas
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| show | Congressional committees formed when the Senate and the House pass a particular bill in different forms. Party leaders appoint member from each house to iron out the differences and bring back a single bill
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| Select Committees | show 🗑
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| show | Congressional committees on a few subject-matter areas with membership drawn from both houses
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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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| Seniority system | show 🗑
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| Caucus (congressional) | show 🗑
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| Bill | show 🗑
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