APGovCh.6.Alyssa.Lujano

Question 1

Bicameral Legislature

Answer 1

A two-house legislature.

Sentence: Bicameral Legislature can be any law making body that consists of two separate houses.

Question 2

Apportionment

Answer 2

The process of allotting congressional seats to each state according to its proportion of the population, following the decennial census.

Sentence: Apportionment changes the number of seats given to each state.

Question 3

Bill

Answer 3

A proposed law.

Sentence: A bill cannot become a law without the consent of both houses.

Question 4

Impeachment

Answer 4

This is the first step in the constitutional process of removing government officials from office.

Sentence: The Senate are the only ones allowed to conduct impeachment trials.

Question 5

Edmund Burke

Answer 5

Conservative British political philosopher of the 18th century who articulated the view that elected representatives should act as ¨trustees¨ and use their own best judgment when voting.

Sentence: Edmund Burke believed that it was his duty to represent the interests of the entire nation.

Question 6

Trustee

Answer 6

Role played by a representative who votes the way his or her constituents would want, regardless of personal opinions; may refer to an elected representative to Congress or a representative to the party convention.

Sentence: A trustee is trusted by the constituents to make a final decision, based off of their judgment.

Question 7

Delegate

Answer 7

May refer to an elected representative to Congress or a representative to the party convention.

Sentence: Delegates must know how their constituents feel about an issue.

Question 8

Politico

Answer 8

An elected representative who acts as a trustee or as a delegate, depending on the issue.

Sentence: A combination of a delegate and a trustee can be described as a Politico.

Question 9

Incumbency

Answer 9

Already holding an office.

Sentence: Incumbency helps members of the office stay in office once they are elected.

Question 10

Redistricting

Answer 10

The process of redrawing congressional districts to reflect increases or decreases in seats allotted to the states, as well as population shifts within a state.

Sentence: Gerrymandering is involved in the Redistricting process.

Question 11

Gerrymandering

Answer 11

The drawing of congressional districts to produce a particular electoral outcome without regard to the shape of the district.

Sentence: The Gerrymandering term is term is derived from the name of Governor Elbridge Gerry of Massachusetts.

Question 12

Majority Party

Answer 12

The political party in each house of Congress with the most members.

Sentence: The Majority Party has the most significant leadership positions.

Question 13

Minority Party

Answer 13

The political party in each house of Congress with the second most members.

Sentence: The Minority party has a smaller role than the mainstream parties.

Question 14

Party Caucus

Answer 14

A formal gathering of all party members.

Sentence: In a Party Caucus, they talk about political policies.

Question 15

Speaker of the House

Answer 15

The chamber’s most powerful position; a member of the majority party.

Sentence: The House of Representatives elects the Speaker of the House at the beginning of a new Congress.

Question 16

Majority Leader

Answer 16

The head of the party, is second in authority to the Speaker of the House and in the Senate, is regarded as its most powerful member.

Sentence: The Majority Leader controls the most seats in the house.

Question 17

Minority Leader

Answer 17

The head of the party with the second highest number of elected representatives in the House of Representatives or the Senate.

Sentence: The Minority Leader is either a Democrat or Republican most of the time.

Question 18

Whip

Answer 18

`Party Leader who keeps close contact with all members of his or her party, takes vote counts on key legislation, prepares to summaries of bills, and acts as a communication link within a party.

Sentence: The position of the Whip originated in the British House of Commons.

Question 19

President pro tempore

Answer 19

The official chair of the Senate; usually the most senior member of the majority party.

Sentence: Once the President Pro tempore is elected, they stay in office until the majority party of the Senate changes.

Question 20

Standing Committee

Answer 20

Committee to which proposed bills are referred; continuous from one congress to the next.

Sentence: There are standing committees on education.

Question 21

Joint Committee

Answer 21

Standing Committee that includes members from both houses of Congress set up to conduct investigations or special studies.

Sentence: Joint Committees focus public attention on matters like economy.

Question 22

Conference Committee

Answer 22

Special Joint committee created to reconcile differences in bills passed by the House and Senate.

Sentence: A Conference Committee compromises members from the House and Senate Committees that considered the bill.

Question 23

Select (or special) committee

Answer 23

Temporary committee appointed for a specific purpose.

Sentence: A Select committee can be partisan.

Question 24

Hillary Clinton

Answer 24

First female major party candidate for President of the United States. Former first lady, New York senator from 2001 to 2009.

Sentence: Hillary Clinton was the Secretary of State.

Question 25

House Committee on Rules

Answer 25

” Rules Committee”, determines the scheduling and conditions for all bills in the House of Representatives.

Sentence: The House Committee on Rules reviews most bills after they come from a committee.

Question 26

Discharge Petition

Answer 26

Petition that gives a majority of the House of Representatives the authority to bring an issue to the floor in the face of committee inaction.

Sentence: The Discharge petition can force bills out of a House committee.

Question 27

Seniority

Answer 27

Time of continuous service on a committee.

Sentence: Seniority ensures that candidates show party loyalty.

Question 28

Markup

Answer 28

A session in which committee members offer changes to a bill before it goes to the floor.

Sentence: Markup may reject the bill before it goes to the floor in either house.

Question 29

Committee of the Whole

Answer 29

A procedure that allows the House of Representatives to deliberate with a lower quorum and to expedite consideration and amendment of a bill.

Sentence: Committee of the Whole includes all the members of the house.

Question 30

Hold

Answer 30

A procedure by which a senator asks to be informed before a particular bill or nomination is brought to the floor.

Sentence: A hold can be public or anonymous, it can also be placed for any reason.

Question 31

Filibuster

Answer 31

A formal way of halting Senate action on a bill by means of long speeches or unlimited debate.

Sentence: The use of Filibusters have increased in recent years in politics.

Question 32

Cloture

Answer 32

Mechanism requiring the vote of sixty senators to cut off debate.

Sentence: Once a Cloture motion passes, members are only allowed to debate about the legislation at issue, for thirty more hours.

Question 33

Veto

Answer 33

The formal, constitutional authority of the president to reject bills passed by both houses of congress.

Sentence: When the President is of a different party of the majority of the Congress, it is more likely of him to veto a bill.

Question 34

Pocket veto

Answer 34

If Congress adjourns during the ten days the president has to consider a bill passed by both houses of congress, the bill is considered vetoed without the president’s signature.

Sentence: Once a pocket veto has been applied, the bill would have to be reintroduced in the next session of Congress in order to become a law.

Question 35

Richard M. Nixon

Answer 35

The thirty-seventh president, a Republican, served from 1969-1974. Nixon advocated detente during the cold war and resigned.

Sentence: President Richard M. Nixon often refused to spend the appropriate amount of money on social problems.

Question 36

Congressional Budget Act of 1974

Answer 36

Act that established the congressional budgetary process by laying out a plan for congressional action on the annual budget resolution, appropriations, and any other revenue bills.

Sentence: The Congressional Budget office (CBO), was created by the Congressional Budget Act of 1974.

Question 37

Reconciliation

Answer 37

A procedure that allows consideration of controversial issues affecting the budget by limiting debate to twenty hours, thereby ending threat of a Filibuster.

Sentence: Reconciliation was used in 2010 by Congress to pass the healthcare reform bill.

Question 38

Pork

Answer 38

Legislation that allows representatives to bring money and jobs to their districts in the form of public works programs, military bases, or other programs.

Sentence: Both earmark and Pork involve spending money on certain projects.

Question 39

Programmatic requests

Answer 39

Federal funds designated for special projects within a state or Congressional district. Also referred to as earmarks.

Sentence: Programmatic requests can also be known as a member request.

Question 40

Divided Government

Answer 40

The political condition in which different political parties control the presidency and at least one house of Congress.

Sentence: A divided party exists when the presidency controls one party.

Question 41

War Powers Resolution

Answer 41

Passed by Congress in 1973, the president is limited in the deployment of troops overseas to a sixty-day period in peacetime.

Sentence: The War Powers Resolution requires the president to notify Congress within forty-eight hours of taking troops to foreign soil.

Question 42

Congressional Review

Answer 42

A process whereby Congress can nullify agency regulations within a 60-day window by passing a joint resolution of legislative disapproval.

Sentence: The Congressional Review was signed into law by President Clinton.

Question 43

Senatorial Courtesy

Answer 43

A process by which presidents generally allow senators from the state in which a judicial vacancy occurs to block a nomination by simply, registering their objection.

Sentence: Senatorial Courtesy has in important role in the appointments of official positions.

Question 44

Unified Government

Answer 44

The political Condition in which the same political party controls the presidency and Congress.

Sentence:In the Unified Government Congress is controlled by the same party, in divided government they can be controlled by a different party.

Question 45

Logrolling

Answer 45

Vote trading;voting to support a colleague’s bill in return for a promise of future support.

Sentence: Logrolling often targets money to selected Congressional districts.

Question 46

Congressional Research Service (CRS)

Answer 46

Created in 1914, provides information, studies, and research in support of the work of Congress, and prepares summaries and tracks the progress of all bill.

Sentence: The Congressional Research Service is administered by the Library of Congress.

Question 47

Government Accountability Office(GAO)

Answer 47

Established in 1921, and independent regulatory agency for the purpose of auditing the financial expenditures of the executive branch and federal agencies.

Sentence: The Government Accountability Office provides legal opinions and also sets Government Standards for Accounting.

Question 48

Congressional Budget Office (CBO)

Answer 48

Created in 1974, the CBO provides Congress with evaluations of the potential economic effects of proposed spending policies and also analyzes the president’s budget and economic projections.

Sentence: The Congressional Budget Office provides Congress with a valuable second opinion to use in budget debates