Legislative Branch (10 questions)

Question 1

Filibuster

Answer 1

Members of the Senate can prevent action on legislation they oppose by continuously holding the floor and speaking until the majority backs down

Question 2

Pork barrel projects

Answer 2

Appropriations made by legislative bodies for local projects that are often not needed but that are created to help local representatives win re-election their home districts

Question 3

Oversight

Answer 3

Effort by Congress, through hearings, investigations, and other techniques, to exercise control over the activities of executive agencies
Carried out by committees or subcommittees of the Senate or the House, which conduct hearings and investigations in order to analyze and evaluate bureaucratic agencies and the effectiveness of their programs

Question 4

Speaker of the House

Answer 4

• John Boehner is current Speaker of the house
• Speaker represents the majority party
• Speaker determines who speaks on the floor

Question 5

How a bill becomes a law

Answer 5

• Member of Congress proposes an idea
• Bill gets drafted
• Try to get support for bill
• Bill sent to the correct committee
• If approved by committee; then it goes to the subcommittee
• subcommittee has hearings from citizens, scientists, lobbyists
• deliberate on bill and they change language of bill
• If subcommittee votes positively; Committee can decide to send the bill to whatever floor it was proposed
• House rules committee must make rules for the bill
• floor can have debates, add amendments to the bill; they finally vote (electronically)
• process starts over for other floor
• if passed and if bills are the same the president gets the bill

Question 6

United States Senate

Answer 6

• Atleast 30 yrs old
• live in the same state
• naturalized for 9 years

-Advise and consent
-Ratify treaties
impeachment and remove from office

Question 7

United States House

Answer 7

• Atleast 25 yrs old
• Live in the same state
• naturalized for 7 years
• Make Laws
• Act as a representative body
• conducts congress oversight
• can check on actions of executive branch

Question 8

California Senate

Answer 8

-US serves 6 years and CA serves 4 years
-no term limits in US but 2 term limits in CA
-no filibuster in CA Senate
-VP can vote in US senate; Liut governor votes if CA senate tie
US has 100 members while CA has 40 members

Question 9

California Assembly

Answer 9

• CA and US both serve 2 years
• US has no term limits but CA has 3 term limits
• US has 435 members and CA has 80 members

Question 10

Logrolling

Answer 10

Legislative practice wherein agreements are made between legislators as voting for or against a bill