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Members agree in advance to support each other’s bills

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Logrolling

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The division of legislature into 2 separate assemblies

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Bicameral ism

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Making additions to bills in exchange for votes

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Earmarks

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How does the trustee view representation?

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What’s best for the country

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How does the instructed delegate view representation?

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What the constituents want

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The role of constituents is

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To elect congress; inform them of what they want done

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Congress can go back and make sure their legislation is being enforced as they intended

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Oversight

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Powers of the house

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Revenue bills, impeachment powers

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Powers of senate

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Major presidential appointments, treaties with other nations

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Differences between house and senate?

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House: members based on population, 2 yr terms
Senate: 2 members per state, 6 yr terms

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Refusing to give up the floor so a bill is killed

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Filibuster

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Parliamentary procedure that allows senate to override a rule by majority rule

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Nuclear option

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What is the general makeup of congress?

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White males with high education. And we’re once lawyers

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How do confidantes get on the ballot?

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Party identifiers

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Between major elections how is voter turn out?

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Voter turn out is very low

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Allocation of seats in the house to each state after each census

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Reapportionment

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Rigging the districts so your party had majority

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Gerrymandering

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Drawing the boundaries of each district

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Redistricting

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The Supreme Court has ruled that re districting must be based on…

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Population and race can take into account but can’t be the main factor

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What are the expressed powers of congress?

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Impose taxes, make laws, establish post offices, declare war

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Allowing congress members to send mail to their constituents for free

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Franking privileges

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Dye average senate office on Capital Hill employs how many people?

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30

22
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Are congress members usually immune from libel or slander during official duties?

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Yes

23
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Handles bills in different policy areas

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Standing committee

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Formed for specific purposes and are usually temporary

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Select committee

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Consist of members from the House and the Senate

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Joint committee

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Members from both House and Senate exclusively hammer out differences between House and Senate versions of similar bills

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Conference committee

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Which committee is most important?

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Conference committee

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A discharge petition is what?

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It comes from the house and the house can force a committee to give up a bill

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The seniority system in Congress establishes what?

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Who’s on what committee

30
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Who is most powerful in the House?

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Speaker of the House

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What is the role of the majority leader?

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Schedules what bills are heard

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What do whips do?

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Figure out how each person is planning to vote

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Which branch has more control over the agenda?

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House

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Who is the most powerful member of the Senate?

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The Majority Leader

35
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What is pork?

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Passing bills to benefit your district

36
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All money bills must come from where?

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The House

37
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The biggest predictor of how people will vote is

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Their party affiliation

38
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When a bill is referred to a committee what will the committee do?

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Fix it and work out its issues

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What does the rules committee do?

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Set time limits and regulations on debate

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What is appropriation? What is an appropriation bill?

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Giving money; a bill delegating money for something specific

41
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Ecknowledging that something needs to be done on a particular issue but not doing anything

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Continuing resolution

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The Speaker of the House has grown since the House has become

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More partisan

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Congress’ public approval rating rarely goes above

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40%

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