Unit 2 Flashcards
Formal power
Informal power
Bicameral
Senate
House
Federal budget
Oversight
Speaker of the house
Bill
Committee
Committee hearing
A method of both houses by which committee members, gather, and analyze information, evidence, and testimony, in deliberation, over a bill prior to full chamber, debate, and vote
Mark up
Additions and revisions of a bill done in congressional committee
Rules committee
Establishes rules for debate on a bill in the house
Committee of the whole
A committee formed in the house to expedite debate on bills
Discharge petition
Bring a bill out of committee
Unanimous consent
Filibuster
Cloture
Conference committee
Mandatory spending
Entitlements
Social security
A social insurance program funded by a payroll tax on current employers, and employees to be re-distributed to qualifying individuals for retirement, disability, or survivor benefits
Medicare
Old people
Medicaid
Poor people
Discretionary spending
Everything left behind
Infrastructure
A set of facilities, structures, and utilities developed, owned, operated, and maintained by the federal, state, and municipal government; includes highways, roads, railroads, bridges, ports, airports, public transportation, water, and sewage systems, electrical, grids, and broadband systems
Prom barrel
Logrolling
Partisan voting
Polarization
Gridlock
Reapportionment
Redistricting
Gerrymandering
Divided government
Lame duck
Trustee model
Delegate model
Politico model
Policy agenda
A list of subjects or issues to which government officials will agree to consider as part of public policy making
Cabinet
Heads of departments
Executive office of the president
Comprises the offices and agencies that support the work and agenda of the president; consist of the White House office, national security council, and office of management and budget
Veto
Pocket veto
Line item veto
Commander in chief
Executive agreement
Treaty
Bargaining and persuasion
Executive ordee
Signing statement
Senste confirmation
Confresssional agenda
Fed 70
Strong, single, energetic executive
22nd amendment
Term limit
State of the union
Formal power of the president that is a nationally broadcast message for agenda, setting that uses the media to influence public views about which policies are the most important
Bully pulpit
Agenda setting
Article III
Fed 78
Independence and life tenure of justices
Judicial review
Precedent
Stare decisis
Hurisdiction
Original jurisdiction
Appellate jurisdiction
Judicial activism
Judicial restraint
Fed bureaucracy
Regulation
Executive department
One of the principal units of the executive branch in administrative arms of the president; headed by a secretary, appointed by the president and confirmed by the Senate, and serve at the pleasure of the president
Executive agency
Independent regulatory commission
Government corporation
Issue network
Irong triangle
Specific policy between congress member, agency, and interest group
Merit system
Established by pendleton civil service ACT
Patronage
Discretionary power
Rulemaking authority
Department of homeland security
Terrorist
Department of transportation
Department of beterans affairs
Department of education
Environment protection agency
Federal elections commission
Securities and echange commission
Oversight
Power of the purse
Compliance monitoring
