CONGRESS

Question 1

Pork barrel spending

Answer 1

Legislation that directs specific funds to projects within districts or states

Question 2

Logrolling

Answer 2

Trading of votes on legislation by members of Congress to get their earmarks passed into legislation.

Question 3

Constituency

Answer 3

A body of voters in a given area who elect a representative or senator.

Question 4

Oversight

Answer 4

Efforts by Congress to ensure that executive branch agencies, bureaus, and cabinet departments, as well as their officials, are acting legally and in accordance with congressional goals.

Question 5

Apportionment

Answer 5

The process of determining the number of representatives for each state using census data.

Question 6

Redistricting

Answer 6

States’ redrawing of boundaries of electoral districts following each census.

Question 7

Gerrymandering

Answer 7

The intentional use of redistricting to benefit a specific interest or group of voters.

Question 8

Partisan gerrymandering

Answer 8

Drawing of district boundaries into strange shapes to benefit a political party.

Question 9

Majority-minority distric