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Question 1

Reconciliation

Answer 1

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

Question 2

Pork

Answer 2

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

Question 3

Programmatic requests

Answer 3

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

Question 4

Divided government

Answer 4

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

Question 5

War Powers Resolution

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Passed by congress in 1973; the president is limited in the deployment of troops overseas to a sixty-day period in peacetime unless Congress explicitly gives its approval for a longer period.

Question 6

Congressional review

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a process whereby Congress can nullify agency regulations within 60-day window by passing a joint resolution of legislative approval. The president’s approval of the resolution or a two-thirds majority vote in both houses to overrule a presidential veto is also required.

Question 7

Senatorial courtesy

Answer 7

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.

Question 8

Unified government

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the political condition in which the same political party controls the presidency and Congress.

Question 9

Logrolling

Answer 9

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

Question 10

Congressional Research Service

Answer 10

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

Question 11

Government Accountability Office

Answer 11

Established in 1921, the GAO is an independent regulatory agency for the purpose of auditing the financial expenditures of the executive branch and federal agencies; until 2004, the GOA was known as the General Accounting Office

Question 12

Congressional Budget Office

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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.

Question 13

Apportionment

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

Question 14

Bill

Answer 14

A proposed law.

Question 15

Impeachment

Answer 15

The power delegated to the House of Representatives in the Constitution to or other ̈civil officers ̈, including federal judges, with ̈Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors ̈. This is the first constitutional process of removing government officials from office.

Question 16

Bicameral legislature

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A two house legislature.

Question 17

Edmund Burke

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Conservative British political philosopher of the eighteenth century who articulated the view that elected representative should act as ̈̈trustees̈ and use their own best judgement when voting.

Question 18

Trustee

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Role played by an elected representative who listens to constituents ́ opinions and then uses his or her best judgement to make a final decision.

Question 19

Delegate

Answer 19

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.

Question 20

Politico

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

Question 21

Incumbency

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Already holding an office.

Question 22

Redistricting

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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.

Question 23

Gerrymandering

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

Question 24

Majority party

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

Question 25

Minority Party

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

Question 26

Party Caucus

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a formal gathering of all party members

Question 27

Speaker of the house

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The only offer of the house of representatives specifically mentioned in the constitution; the chambers most powerful position; traditionally a member of the majority party.

Question 28

Majority leader

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The head of the party controlling the most seats in the house of representatives or the senate; is second most authority to the speaker of the house and in the senate is regarded as its most powerful member.

Question 29

Minority leader

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the head if the party with the second highest number of elected representatives in the House of Representatives or the senate.

Question 30

Whip

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Party leader who keeps close contact with all members of his or her party takes vote counts on key legislation prepare summaries of bills and acts like a communications link within party

Question 31

Presidential pro tempore

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

Question 32

Standing committee

Answer 32

Committee to which proposed bills are referred continue someone Congress to the next

Question 33

Joint committee

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Standing committee that includes members from both houses of Congress set up to conduct investigations or special study

Question 34

Conference committee

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Special joint committee created to reconcile differences in bills passed by the house and the senate

Question 35

Select committee

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Temporary committee appointed for a specific purpose

Question 36

Hillary Clinton

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First female major party candidate for president of the United States, a democrat, who ran against president Donald J Trump in 2016. Secretary of state from 2009 to 2013; new york senator from 2001 to 2009; former first lady

Question 37

House Committee on Rules

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the influential “Rules Committee” determines the scheduling and conditions, such as length of debate and type of allowable amendments for all bills in the House of Representatives

Question 38

Discharge petition

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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

Question 39

Seniority

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time of continuous service on a committee

Question 40

Markup

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

Question 41

Committee of the Whole

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

Question 42

Hold

Answer 42

a procedure by which a senator asks to be informed before a particular bill or nomination is brought to the floor. This request signals leadership that a member may have objections to the bill and should be consulted before further action is taken

Question 43

Filibuster

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

Question 44

Cloture

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

Question 45

Veto

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the formal constitutional authority of the president to reject bills passed by both houses of Congress, thus preventing them from becoming law without further congressional action.

Question 46

Pocket veto

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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.

Question 47

Richard M. Nixon

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the 37th president a republican, who served from 1969-1974. Nixon advocated detente during the Cold War and resigned rather than face impeachment and likely removal from office due to the Watergate scandal.

Question 48

Congressional Budget Act of 1974

Answer 48

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