Legislative Tactics

Question 1

Attitudinal View

Answer 1

members of Congress vote based on their ideologies and political party

Question 2

Congressional Committee

Answer 2

legislative sub-organization in the Congress that handles a specific duty

Question 3

Congressional Staffer

Answer 3

Personal staff, who work for individual members of Congress

Question 4

Contiguity

Answer 4

continuous mass, or a series of things in contact or in proximity

Question 5

Cracking

Answer 5

Separating a party within district

Question 6

Delegate

Answer 6

view that an elected representative should represent the opinions of his or her constituents

Question 7

Earmark

Answer 7

A rider that contains spending

Question 8

Federal Bureaucracy (Agency)

Answer 8

hierarchical authority structure that uses task specialization, operates on the merit principle, and behaves with impersonality.

Question 9

Gerrymandering

Answer 9

Manipulate the boundaries of an electoral constituency as to favor one party of class

Question 10

Interest groups

Answer 10

Any organization (corporation, union, a political issue organization) that makes it their business to influence legislation and policy

Question 11

Iron triangle

Answer 11

Interest groups, congressional committee, and exclusive department

Question 12

Line item veto

Answer 12

The president can veto individual spending items in bills that was struck down in scotus

Question 13

Lobbying

Answer 13

Interest groups use money and influence to try to shape policy and get support from lawmakers in Congress

Question 14

Logrolling

Answer 14

Trading favors for adding earmark

Question 15

Omnibus bill

Answer 15

A bill that attaches riders as if it were stuffing into a crowded bus

Question 15

Minority-majority district

Answer 15

An electoral district, such as us congressional district in which the majority of the constituents are racial or ethnic minorities

Question 16

Packing

Answer 16

Making district lines so that the majority is all on party

Question 17

Organizational View

Answer 17

members of Congress vote based on cues from colleagues and party members

Question 18

Pork-Barrel spending

Answer 18

Attaching local spending projects to federal legislation

Question 19

Partisan

Answer 19

one affiliated with a party will be more likely to vote within their party; supporter

Question 20

Population Equality

Answer 20

the new districts must have approximately the same number of people, making them the same size; “one person, one vote”

Question 21

Reapportionment

Answer 21

Redistribution of representation in a legislative body especially the periodic realignment of US congressional seats according to the changes in census

Question 23

Redistricting

Answer 23

The process of drawing us electoral district boundaries the way this is done varies among states

Question 25

Revolving door

Answer 25

The idea that people in govt can easily get jobs with special interests

Question 25

Representational View

Answer 25

members of Congress vote to please their constituents in order to secure re-election

Question 26

Rider

Answer 26

An additional or markup to a bill usually added by a committee

Question 27

State Legislatures

Answer 27

rain ultimate authority to states except for those powers delegated to central gov

Question 28

Trustee

Answer 28

A model of representation in which a member of the House or Senate follows his or her own conscience when deciding issue positions

Question 29

US Census

Answer 29

accounting for population every 10 years

Question 30

Voting Rights Act

Answer 30

suspended poll taxes and literacy tests. required all electoral actions in states where a large percentage of minorities were not registered to vote, to be approved by the federal government.