Chapter 11 Terms

Question 1

An official count of a country’s population

Answer 1

Census

Question 2

State legislatures actually redraw the congressional district lines to reflect population shifts

Answer 2

Reapportionment

Question 3

Redrawing these district boundaries to favor the political party that controls the state legislature

Answer 3

Gerrymandering

Question 4

A geographical area in a state represented by a House member

Answer 4

Congressional district

Question 5

Having one representative elected from a given region

Answer 5

Single member district

Question 6

Statewide basis

Answer 6

At large

Question 7

Direct popular election of senators did not take place until 1913 with the passage

Answer 7

17th Amendment

Question 8

Members of different parties join together in support of or in opposition to a bill because of some common interest

Answer 8

Coallition

Question 9

Consists of all the members of a party within a house of Congress

Answer 9

Caucus

Question 10

The leader of the party with the most members in the House or Senate

Answer 10

Majority leader

Question 11

The leader of the party with the second-most members in the House or Senate

Answer 11

Minority leader

Question 12

In charge of communications between party members in the House or Senate and their party leaders

Answer 12

Majority and minority whips

Question 13

Largely an honorary position given to the most senior member of the Senate’s majority party

Answer 13

President pro tempore

Question 14

The only position in the House actually named in the Constitution

Answer 14

Speaker of the House

Question 15

Limits the number of terms of state legislators and members of Congress

Answer 15

Term limits

Question 16

Free postage

Answer 16

Franking privilege

Question 17

Seemingly unnecessary trips abroad

Answer 17

Junkets

Question 18

Permanent committees that are generally more powerful than other types of committees

Answer 18

Standing committees

Question 19

Those created for a specific purpose, generally to investigate a particular problem, and are therefore temporary

Answer 19

Select committees

Question 20

Permanent committees composed of members from both the House and Senate

Answer 20

Joint committees

Question 21

Ad hoc (temporary) committees drawn from both chambers that meet to work out a compromise agreement on a bill, or proposed law, that has emerged from both houses in different forms

Answer 21

Conference committees

Question 22

Could write legislation, control a committee staff budget of over a million dollars, and listen to lobbyists and people from the executive branch (including possibly the president himself) who want to influence legislation

Answer 22

Chairs

Question 23

A more formal way of preventing or delaying the passage of a bill

Answer 23

Filibuster

Question 24

A motion to stop debate

Answer 24

Cloture

Question 25

When Congress is not in session during the ten days, and the president does not sign it, the bill dies; discourages Congress from “stuffing the pocket” of the president with bills hastily at the end of a session

Answer 25

Pocket veto

Question 26

Two house

Answer 26

Bicameral