Chap 7 Vocab

Question 0

Reapportionment

Answer 0

Assigning by Congress of congressional seats after each census. State legislature reapportion state legislative districts

Question 1

Constituents

Answer 1

Residents of a congressional district or state

Question 2

Redistricting

Answer 2

Redrawing of congressional/other legislative district lines following the census to accommodate population shifts to keep districts equal

Question 3

Gerrymandering

Answer 3

Drawing of a legislative district that benifit a party, group or incumbent

Question 4

Safe seat

Answer 4

Elected office that is predictably won by one party or the other.

Question 5

Incumbent

Answer 5

Current holder of elected office

Question 6

Earmarks

Answer 6

Special spending projects that are set aside on behalf of individual members of congress for their constituents

Question 7

Bicameralism

Answer 7

Principle of two house legislature

Question 8

Enumerated powers

Answer 8

The powers explicitly given to congress in the Constitution

Question 9

Speaker

Answer 9

Presiding officer In the House of Representatives formally elected by the house but selected by the majority party.

Question 10

Party caucus

Answer 10

A meeting of the members of a party in legislative chamber to select party leaders and to develop party policy

Question 11

Majority leader

Answer 11

The legislative leader selected by the majority party who helps plan party strategy, confers with other party leaders and tries to keep members of the party in line

Question 12

Minority leader

Answer 12

The legislative leader selected by the minority party as spokesperson for the opposition

Question 13

Whip

Answer 13

Party leader who is liaison between leadership and the rank and file in the legislature

Question 14

Closed rule

Answer 14

Procedural rule in the House of Representatives that prohibits any amendments to bills or provides that only members of the committee reporting the bill may offer amendments

Question 15

Open rule

Answer 15

Procedural rule in the house of reps that permits floor amendments within the overall time allocated to the bill

Question 16

President pro tempore

Answer 16

Officer of state selected by majority party to act as chair in VP’s absence

Question 17

Filibuster

Answer 17

Procedural practice in the senate where some senator refuses to relinquish the floor and delays precedings and prevents vote in controversial issue

Question 18

Cloture

Answer 18

A procedure for terminating debate, especially filibusters in senate

Question 19

Standing Committee

Answer 19

Permanent ccomitee established in a legislature, usually focusing on a policy area

Question 20

Special or select committee

Answer 20

Congressional committee created for a specific purpose, sometimes to conduct an investigation

Question 21

Joint committees

Answer 21

A committee composed of members of both te House of Representatives and the senate; such vomited oversee the library of congress and conduct investigations

Question 22

Seniority rule

Answer 22

Legislative practice that assign the chair of a committee or subcommittee to the member of the majority party with the longest continuous service on TEH ccomitee

Question 23

Conference committee

Answer 23

Ccomitee appointed by the presiding officers of each chamber to adjust differences on a particular bill passed by each in different form

Question 24

Discharge

Answer 24

A petition that, if signed by a majority of the members of the house of reps. Will pry a bill from committee and bring it to the floor for consideration

Question 25

Rider

Answer 25

A provision attached to a bill- to which it may or may not be related- in order to secure its passage R defeat

Question 26

Pocket veto

Answer 26

Pres. Does nothing to bill for 10 days (after congress has ajourned). Bill does not become law after this, and can’t be given to congress for an overdose

Question 27

Override

Answer 27

I’m action taken by congress to reverse a presidential veto l, requiring 2/3 majority in each chamber

Question 28

Delegate

Answer 28

An official who is expected to represent the views of his or her constituents even when personality holding different views; one interpretation of the role of the legislator

Question 29

Trustee

Answer 29

An official who is expected to vote independently based on his or her judgement of the circumstances; one interpretation of the role of the legislator

Question 30

Logrolling

Answer 30

Mutual aid and vote trading amoung legislators

Question 31

Attentive public

Answer 31

Citizens who follow affairs closley

Question 32

Polorization

Answer 32

The extent to which libra L’s and conservatives occupy the more extreme positions on the liberal-conservative ideological spectrum