Ap gov test 11 and 12

Question 1

incumbents

Answer 1

ind. who had office, usuallu win elections

Question 2

casework

Answer 2

members of congress taht help constituents as ind., helping get people what they think they have a right to; tool used ot help incumbents win

Question 3

porl barrel

Answer 3

federal projects, grants, and contracls available to state adn local gov, business and colleges; tool used to help incumbents win

Question 4

requirements for house

Answer 4

25 years old, citizen for 7 years

Question 5

house terms

Answer 5

services 2 years, 435 members, less prestige and strict rules. can impeech office an has interest of masses

Question 6

requirements for senate

Answer 6

30 years old, citizen for 9 years

Question 7

senate terms

Answer 7

service 6 years, 100 members, more prestige, less rules. ratify treaties and has interest of elietes

Question 8

baker vs carr

Answer 8

allowed fedral court to review boundaries of legislative districts

Question 9

bicameral legistlative

Answer 9

legislature divded in 2 houses, us congress and state legislature except nebraska are like this

Question 10

speaker of house

Answer 10

chosen by majority party; formal and informal powers, 2nd in line to pres

Question 11

majority leaders

Answer 11

responsible for scheduleing bills, influence commitee assignments, rounding up votes, ally to the speaker of house, major party manager in senate (holds all power in senate), stepping stone to speaker

Question 12

whips

Answer 12

party leaders who work w/ majority and minority leader to count votes beforehand and lean on wavers whose votes are crucial to passage of bill favores by party

Question 13

minority leader

Answer 13

principal leader of minority party in house of reps or in senate

Question 14

select comitee and joint comitee

Answer 14

select- investigates disastors, joint- defense from each house

Question 15

standidng comitee

Answer 15

permanents; comitees in each house that handle bills in different policy areas

Question 16

conference comitees

Answer 16

senate and house pass particular bill in different forms, party leadership appointing members from each house to iron our the differences and bring back a single bill; temporary

Question 17

comitee chairs

Answer 17

inportant influence os comitees agenda; roles in scheduleing hearins, hiring staff, appointing sub comitees, managing comitee bills when bought before house

Question 18

senority system

Answer 18

stopped in 1970; simple rule for picking comitee chairs, longset standing member and whose party is in control of chamber becomes chair, regardless of loyalty, mental state or competance

Question 19

caucus (congressional)

Answer 19

like interest group but in congress; group of memebers of congress sharing interst or characteristics; from both partiees anf from both houses

Question 20

bill

Answer 20

proposed law; anyone can draft a bill; only house of reps or senatecan formally submit bils for consideration

Question 21

bill process

Answer 21

bill intro; comtiee action; floor action; repeat all steps in the opposite house; conference action; floor action; presidential decision; bill

Question 22

legistlative oversight

Answer 22

congress’s monitoring of executive branch beaurcracy and its admin or policy, performed through comitee hearings

Question 23

filibuster

Answer 23

startegy for senate; opponests of piece of legistlative use their right to inlimited debate to prevent senate from ever voting on a bill; 60 members present and voting can halt a filibuster on legislation

Question 24

closure

Answer 24

ends filibuster; something majoirty does; doesnt happen often

Question 25

requirement for pres

Answer 25

35 years old, natural born citize, llives in us for 14 years. not required to be in gov but usually is prior to joining pres

Question 26

22 amendment

Answer 26

limits pres to 2 terms of office

Question 27

25 ammendment

Answer 27

permits vice pres to become pres if cabinet determine president is disabled and outline that prea can reclaim the job

Question 28

impeachment

Answer 28

house of reps may impeech pres by a majority vote; treason, briabary or other high crimes

Question 29

watergate

Answer 29

events and scandal abt break in at democratic national comitee; white house tried to cver it up which lead to nixon resigning so he would’t get impeeched

Question 30

executive order

Answer 30

regulations started to executive branch; 1 method pres use to control bureaucracy

Question 31

cabinet

Answer 31

group of advisors (not in constitution); made of 14 secretaries, attourney general and other president wants. senate approves these people

Question 32

national security council

Answer 32

link between pres foreign and military polc advisers, made of pres, vice pres, secretary of state and secretary of defense

Question 33

council od economic advisers

Answer 33

3 member; advixxe pres on economic policy

Question 34

office of managemnt and budget

Answer 34

prepares pred budge; advises pres on proposal from department and agencies and heps review proposed regulations

Question 35

veto

Answer 35

constitional power of pres to send bill back to congress with resason fro rejecting it. 2/3 vote in each house can overide veto

Question 36

pocket veto

Answer 36

type of veto; congress ajourns within 10 days fo submitting a bill to pres and pres lets bille die by not signing or vetoing bill

Question 37

war powers resolution

Answer 37

pres consults with congree when using military force and to withdraw forces after 60 days unless congress declares war or grant extension; pres viewed as unconstituional

Question 38

legistlative veto

Answer 38

vote iin congress to overide pres

Question 39

crisis

Answer 39

sudden and unpredictable even causing pre to be crisis manager