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What did Harry Reid change?

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Changed to simple majority for cabinet instead of 60 votes

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Congressional Demographics?

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Educated and wealthy

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Advantages of incumbency

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Franking privilege 
Name recognition
Credit claiming
Case work 
Access to media
Ease in fundraising
Experience 
Redistricing
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State legislature redraw districts

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Redistricting

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Drawing a district with or favor a party or candidate

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Gerrymandering

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What is the goal of congress?

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Make laws and represent citizen’s interest

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7
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Describes the structure of the legislative branch

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Article 1

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Resulted in the creation of the lower house, HOR, upper house and the senate

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The Great Compromise

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2 house legislature

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Bicameral legislature

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How many senators represents each state?

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2

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How are HOR elected?

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Directly elected

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How many representatives are each state granted?

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435

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

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Apportionment

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Has the power to make laws and raise and spend revenue

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Congress

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Must redraw districts according to population shifts

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Apportionment

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Proposed law

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Bill

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Who must consent to pass a bill?

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Both houses

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18
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Issue proclamations and executive orders with the force of law

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President

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Issue quasi-legislative rules and charges with enforcing laws, rules, and regulations

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Beaurocrats

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Power delegated to the house of rep to change the pres, vp, or other “civil officers”, include fed. judges, with “Treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors”

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Impeachment

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21
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Senate has authority with ______ vote

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2/3

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22
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Members in house?

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435

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23
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Members in senate?

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100

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24
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Who initiates all revenue bills?

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House

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25
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Offers advice and consent on many major presidential appointments

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Senate

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Initiates impeachment procedures and passes article of impeachment

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House

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27
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Tried trial for impeachment

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Senate

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28
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More centralized, more formal, stronger leadership

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House

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29
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Approves treaties

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Senate

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30
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Another name for Congress

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Millionaire’ club

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31
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Average age for House members?

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58

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32
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What affect chances for re-election?

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Incumbency and redistricting

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33
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Already holding office

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Incumbency

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34
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Minority’s have an equal chance to elect more members of their party

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Voting Rights Act of 1965

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35
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Each house of congress with the most members

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Majority party

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Second most members of congress

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Minority

37
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A formal gathering of all party members

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Party causes or conference

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Nominate or elect party officers, reviewing Committee assignments, discussing party policy, imposing party discipline; has specialized committees

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Party Caucus; conference

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The only officer of the House specifically mentioned in the constitution; the chamber’s most powerful position; traditionally a member of the majority party

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Speaker of the House

40
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Head of the party controlling the most seats in the House or the Senate; second in authority to the Speaker and regarded as the most powerful member in the Senate

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Majority Leader

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Head of the party with the 2nd highest number of elected representatives

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Minority leader

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Party leaders who keep close close contract with all members of his or her party, takes vote counts on key legislation, prepares summaries and bills, acts as a communication links with a party

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Whips

43
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Serve as a communication link, distributing word of the party line from the leaders to rank-and-file members and alerting leader to concern in ranks

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Whips

44
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The office chair of the senate whom the majority party selects and who presides over the Senate in the absence of VP

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President pro tempore

45
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Most senior member of the majority party

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President pro tempore

46
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Step one of budget process?

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Submits a budget request

47
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Mandatory spending, discretionary spending and entitlements

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submits a budget request

48
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Discretionary spending?

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Defense and non-defense

49
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Social security, Medicare and health, interest in debt

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Entitlements

50
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What is step 2 of the budget process?

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Congress passes budget resolution

51
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Sets goals for process, allocations, and spending bills; budget committees

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Congress passes Budget resolution

52
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Each chambers’ budget committee divides the budget into____ subcommittees

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12

53
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What is step 3 of the budget process?

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Appropriation committees in the House and Senate write actual spending bills

54
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Bills are then reported to committee for mark up; depending on rules

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Appropriation committees in the House and senate write actual spending bills

55
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Addition/amendments to bills

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Riders

56
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Step 4 of the budget process?

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Conference Committee

57
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Hammer out differences in the different versions

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Conference Committee

58
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Step 5 of Budget Process?

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President signs, vetoes, or let’s sit

59
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Override veto, pocket veto and continuing resolutions

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President signs, vetoes, or let’s sit

60
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If less than 10 days in congressional sessions

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Pocket Vero

61
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Spending measure that last for a certain amount of time

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Continuing Resolutions

62
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Types of committees?

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Joint, conference, standing, and Select (special)

63
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Committees to which proposed bills are referred; continues from one Congress to the next

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Standing Committess

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

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Joint Committee

65
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Special joint committee created to reconcile differences in bill passed by the house and the senate

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Conference Committee

66
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Temporary committee appointed for the specific purpose

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Select (special) committee

67
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Plays a major role in the House’s law making process; reviews most bills before considerations

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House committees on rules

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Contains the date the bill will come up for debate and the time that will be allotted for discussion, and often specifies what kinds of amendments can be offered

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Rule

69
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Kill bills; amend, hurries up the process

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Standing committees

70
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Petition that gives a majority of the House the authority to bring an issue to the floor in the face of committee inaction

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Discharge Petition

71
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Force bills out of the majority office

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Discharge petition

72
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Time of continuous service on a committee

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Seniority

73
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A session in which members offer changes to a bill before it goes to the floor

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Markup

74
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A procedure by which a senator asks to be informed before a particular bull or nomination is brought to the floor; request signals leadership that a member may have objections to the bill and should be consulted before further action is taken

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Hold

75
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A formal way of halting senate action on a bill by means of long speeches or unlimited debate

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Filibuster

76
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Mechanism requiring the vote of sixty senators to cut off debate

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Cloture

77
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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

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Congressional Budget act of 1974

78
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A procedure that allows consideration of controversial issues affecting the budget my limiting debate to twenty hours, thereby ending threat of the filibuster

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Reconciliation

79
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Legislation that allows representatives to bring money and jobs to their districts in the form of public works programs, military bases, or other programs

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Pork

80
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Federal fund designated for special projects within a state or congressional district

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Programmatic requests

81
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Passed by congress in 1973; the president is limited in the deployment of troop over seas to a 60 day period in peacetime unless congress gives its approval for a longer period

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War Powers Resolution

82
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A process whereby Congress can nullify agency regulations by a joint resolution of legislative disapproval

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Congressional Review

83
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A process by which president la generally allow senators from the state in which a judicial vacancy occurs to block a nomination by simply restarting their objection

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Senatorial Courtesy

84
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Role played by an elected representative who listens to constituents opinions and then uses his or her best judgment to make a final decision

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Trustee

85
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Role played by an elected representative who votes the way his or her constituents would want; regardless of personal opinions

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Delegate

86
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An elected representative who acts as a trustee or as a delegate, depending on the issue

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Politico

87
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The political condition in which different political parties control the presidency and congress

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Divided Government

88
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The political condition in which the same political party controls the presidency and congress

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Unified Government

89
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Vote trading; voting to support a colleagues bill in return for a promise of future support

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Logrolling

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