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Government - E2 - P2
Government - Exam 2 - Chapter 10 - Congress
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Any legislative body that consists of two separate chambers or houses | Bicameral |
| Congress’s exclusive constitutional power to authorize expenditures by all agencies of the federal government | Power of the Purse |
| Congressional monitoring of the activities of executive branch agencies to determine if the laws are being faithfully executed | Oversight |
| The constitutional power of the US Senate to reject or ratify (by two-thirds vote) treaties made by the president | Advice and Consent |
| The constitutionally required consent of the Senate to appointments of high-level executive officials by the president and appointments of federal judges | Confirmation |
| Congressional committee sessions in which members listen to witnesses who provide information and opinions on matters of interest to the committee, including pending legislation | Congressional Hearings |
| Congressional committee hearings on alleged misdeeds or scandals | Congressional Investigation |
| A written command to appear before a court or a congressional committee | Subpoena |
| Willful disobedience to, or open disrespect of, a court or a congressional body | Contempt |
| Lying while under oath after swearing to tell the truth | Perjury |
| Formal charges of wrongdoing brought against a government official, resulting in a trial and upon conviction removal from office | Impeachment |
| The allocation of legislative seats to jurisdictions based on population | Appointment |
| Unequal numbers of people in legislative districts resulting in inequality of voter representation | Malappointment |
| Drawing of legislative district boundary lines following each 10 year census | Redistricting |
| Drawing district boundaries lines for political advantage | Gerrymandering |
| Redistricting in which a strong minority is divided up and diluted to prevent it from electing a representative | Splintering |
| Redistricting in which partisan voters are concentrated in a single district, “wasting” their majority vote and allowing the opposition to win by modest majorities in other districts | Packing |
| Drawing Legislative district boundaries to advantage incumbent legislators | Incumbent Gerrymandering |
| Drawing district boundary lines to maximize minority representation | Affirmative Racial Gerrymandering |
| Seat in a legislature for which no incumbent is running for reelection | Open Seat |
| Legislative districts in which the incumbent regularly wins by a large margin of the vote | Safe Seats |
| Replacement of members of Congress by retirement or resignation, by reappointment, or (more rarely) by electoral defeat | Turnover |
| Limitations on the number of terms that an elected official can serve in office. | Term Limits |
| The ____ Amendment limits the president to two terms. | 22nd |
| An arm of Congress that undertakes oversight of the operations and finances or all executive agencies, as well as performing policy research and evaluation | Government Accountability Office |
| Activities of Congress members specifically directed at their home constituencies | Home Style |
| Services performed by legislators or their staff on behalf of individual constituents | Casework |
| Legislation designed to make government benefits, including jobs and projects used as political patronage, flow to a particular district or state | Pork Barreling |
| Provisions in appropriation bills specifying particular projects for which federal money is to be spent | Earmarks |
| Free mail service afforded members of Congress | Franking Privilege |
| Presiding officer of the House of Representatives | Speaker of the House |
| In the House, the majority-party leader and second in command to the Speaker, in the Senate, the leader of the majority party | Majority Leader |
| In both the House and the Senate, the leader of the opposition party | Minority Leader |
| In both the House and Senate, the principal assistants to the party leaders and next in command to those leaders | Whips |
| Permanent committee of the House or Senate that deals with matter within a specified subject area | Standing Committee |
| The minority-party committee member with the most seniority | Ranking Minority Leaders |
| Specialized committees within standing committees | Subcommittees |
| Custom whereby the member of Congress who has served the longest on the majority side of a committee becomes its chair and the member who has served the longest on the minority side becomes its ranking member | Seniority System |
| Actual writing of a bill in legal language | Drafting a Bill |
| Line-by-line revision of a bill in committee by editing each phrase and word | Markup |
| Petition signed by at least 218 House members to force a vote on a bill within a committee that opposes it | Discharge Petition |
| Stipulation attached to a bill in the House of Representatives that governs its consideration on the floor, including when and for how long it can be debated and how many (if any) amendments may be appended to it | Rule |
| Rule that forbids adding any amendments to a bill under consideration in the House | Closed rule |
| Rule that allows only specified amendments to be added to a bill under consideration by the House | Restricted Rule |
| Rule that permits unlimited amendments to a bill under consideration of the House | Open Rule |
| Negotiated by the majority and minority leaders of the Senate, it specifies when a bill will be taken up on the floor, what amendments will be considered, and when a vote will be taken | Unanimous Consent Agreement |
| Delaying tactic by a senator or group of senators, using the Senate’s unlimited debate rule to prevent a vote on a bill | Filibuster |
| Vote to end debate – that is, to end a filibuster – which requires a 3/5th vote of the entire membership of the Senate | Cloture |
| Amendment to a bill that is not germane to the bill’s purposes | Rider |
| Vote of the full House or Senate at which all members’ individual votes are recorded and made public | Roll-Call Vote |
| Meetings between representatives of the House and Senate to reconcile differences over provisions of a bill passes by both houses | Conference Committees |
| Majority of Democrats voting in opposition to a majority of Republicans | Party Votes |
| Percentage of Democrats and Republicans who stick with their party on party votes | Party Unity |
| Agreement by members of both the Democratic and the Republican parties | Bipartisanship |
| One party controls the presidency while the other party controls one or both houses of Congress | Divided Party Government |
| The votes in a legislator’s home district | Constituency |
| Legislators who feel obligated to use their own best judgment in decision making | Trustees |
| Legislators who feel obligated to present the views of their home constituents | Delegates |
| Bargaining for agreement among legislators to support each other’s favorite bills, especially projects that primarily benefit individual members and their constituents | Logrolling |
| Political stalemate between the executive and legislative branches arising when one branch is controlled by one major political party and the other branch by the other party | Gridlock |
| Public reprimand for wrongdoing, given to a member standing in the chamber before Congress | Censure |
| What are the exclusive powers of the Senate? | Ratify treaties, Confirm appointments (judicial, ambassador, cabinet), Try impeachments, if their is no majority for VP then Senate decides |
| What are the exclusive powers of the House? | Originate tax bills, bring impeachment charges, if their is no majority for president then House decides |
| The ______ committee is tasked with resolving the differences between the House and Senate versions of a bill in order for both chambers of Congress to pass a single bill and submit it to the president. | conference |
| The only officer of House of Representatives specifically mentioned in the Constitution is ______. | The Speaker of the House |
| The congressional leaders who do vote counts and line up members on partisan issues are called ______. | Whips |
| A ____ is defined as a tactic by which a senator asks to be informed before a particular bill is brought to the floor. This stops the bill from coming to the floor until the request is removed. | hold |
| After a bill has been approved by a House standing committee, the ___ Committee determines when the bill will be debated, for how long and what amendments may be proposed to the bill. | Rules |
| The most powerful and sought after committees in the Senate and House are the ___ committees. | Appropriation |
| The first woman to be selected as the Democratic whip in the House of Representatives (2002) was _________. | Nancy Pelosi |
| After the 1824 election, ____ founded the Democratic Party out of the Democratic-Republican Party. | Andrew Jackson |
| List the stated reasons in the Constitution for impeachment. | Treason, Bribery or other High Crimes and Misdemeanors |
| The 112th Congress Speaker of the House is ______ | John Boehner (R) |
| The 112th Congress presiding officer of the Senate is ______ | Joe Biden (D) |
| The 112th Congress minority leader of the Senate is ___. | Mitch McConnell (R) |
| Which types of committees has as membership individuals from both the House and the Senate? | Joint Committees |
| The congressional 2010 election resulted in what power/majority changes in congress? | Republicans gained 60 seats in the House gaining a majority and gained 6 seats in the Senate |
| State legislatures lost their control over the selection of senators through the ________ Amendment in 1913, which provides for the direct election of senators. | 17th |
| Congress has managed to increase the scope of its enumerated powers through the interpretation of the ______. | Necessary and Proper Clause |
| In ____ (year) the number of members to the House of Representatives was fixed by statute at 435. | Apportionment Act of 1911 |
| Permanent committees that specialize in particular areas of legislation are ___ committees. | Standing |
| List the qualifications for Senators | at least 30 years old, citizen of US for 9 years, inhabitant of the State |
| List the qualifications for House Members | at least 25 years old, citizen of US for 7 years, inhabitant of the State |
| Line-by-line revision of a bill in committee by editing each phrase and word is called ___. | Markup |
| Texas gained ___ House Seats due to the 2010 census. | 4 |
| Which Court decision stated partisan gerrymandering is considered constitutional and not in violation of the Equal Protection Clause (unless the effect is “sufficiently adverse”?) | Davis V. Bandemer (1986) |
| What are the most powerful standing committees in the House and the Senate? | Appropriations Committees |
| At what stage does the detailed work of legislation take place? | markup |
| Passage of a bill in the House is often made quicker under a _____ rule. | closed |
| ________ are unrelated to the main topic of the bill. | riders |
| A petition signed by at least a majority of House members to force a vote by the House on a bill which is within a committee that opposes it is called a ________. | discharge petition |
| The Medicare and Medicaid Act (1965) was passed to amend the ___. | Social Security Act (1935) |
| The only significant power of the vice president in Congress is the right to _________. | cast a deciding vote in the event of a tie on a Senate roll call |
| Approximately what percentage of presidential vetoes have been overridden by Congress? | 5% |
| Rather than face probable or certain expulsion from Congress, members usually ___. | resign |
| What regulates consideration of a bill in the Senate? | A unanimous consent agreement |
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