Plano Unit 3

Question 1

Apportionment

Answer 1

The designation of legislative seats.
14th amendment
Redistricting every 10 years with Census

Question 2

Appropriation

Answer 2

A legislative grant of money For a specific purpose

Question 3

Bloc

Answer 3

Members of the legislative body, not necessarily of the same party, who have common names and goals.
Historical examples include the farm bloc, civil-rights bloc, and international trade bloc

Question 4

Budget committees

Answer 4

House and Senate committees to recommend policy guidelines each fiscal year to aid Congress in considering the annual federal budget

Question 5

Cloture

Answer 5

Parliamentary technique used by legislative body to end debate and bring the matter under consideration to vote

Question 6

Committee of the whole

Answer 6

An informal procedure used by a legislative body to expedite business by resolving the official body into a committee for the consideration of bills and other matters

Question 7

Caucuses

Answer 7

A meeting of party members in one of the houses of a legislative body for the purpose of making decisions on selections of party leaders and on legislative business

Question 8

Con current resolution

Answer 8

Special measure passed by one house of Congress with the other concurring, but not requiring the presidents signature

Question 9

Congressional budget office

Answer 9

Agency of Congress established by the Congressional budget act of 1974, which also created a procedure by which Congress considers and ask upon the annual budget presented by the President.
Provides with an assessment of the economic impact of the federal budget and offers alternative fiscal budgetary and programmatic policy issues

Question 10

Ethics code

Answer 10

Codes of conduct intended to govern the activities of House and Senate members
Require full financial disclosure by each member
Limit the amount of income each member may earn outside Congress
Impose a maximum of $1000 fee members can except for an activity such as giving a speech or writing an article
Limit gifts from lobbyist to no more than $100 in value
Abolish all unofficial funds used to pay for activities not covered by official allowances
Limit the free mailing privileges of members of Congress
Restrict the travel of members web been defeated for reelection

Question 11

Gag rule

Answer 11

Legislative rule that arbitrarily limits the time available for consideration of a measure.

Question 12

Gerrymandering

Answer 12

Drawing of legislative district boundary lines to obtain partisan or factional advantage.
Gerrymandering is engaged in bipartisan majorities in state legislatures when they are drawing up congressional and state legislative districts.
The objective is to game partisan electoral vantage by spreading support for one’s own party over many districts and concentrating support for the other party in a few districts.

Question 13

Legislative veto

Answer 13

Rejection of an action of the executive or of an administrative agency by the Legislature without the consent of the chief executive

Question 14

Pigeonhole

Answer 14

To kill a bill in committee by putting it aside and not reporting it out for consideration by the chamber

Question 15

Private bill

Answer 15

Bill introduced into a legislative body that deals with the specific matters and individuals rather than with general legislative affairs.
Main categories:
• Immigration and naturalization bills applying to specific individuals
• Claim bills not subject to administrative resolution
• Land bills assigning title to individuals
If enacted, they become private law and apply only to specific individuals named in the act

Question 16

Rider

Answer 16

Provision, unlikely to pass on its own merits, added to an important bill so that it will “ride” through the legislative process

Question 17

Rules committee

Answer 17

Standing committee of the House of Representatives that can provide special Rules under which specific bills will be debated, amended, and considered by the house.

Question 18

Senatorial courtesy

Answer 18

Unwritten agreement among senators that requires the president to confirm with the senator or senators of his party from a state before he makes a nomination to fill a federal office located in the state

Question 19

Baker V Carr

Answer 19

Ruled that Federal courts have jurisdiction over lawsuits challenging the apportionment of legislative districts, on the ground that malapportioned districts may violate the equal protection clause of the 14th amendment

Question 20

Pacific states telephone and telegraph Co. V Oregon

Answer 20

Involve the question of whether the initiative and referendum provisions of the Oregon Constitution destroyed the republican form of government guaranteed to all states by the U.S. Constitution in article 4 section 4. Court held it be political question not open to judiciary inquiry

Question 21

Reynolds v.Sims

Answer 21

Under equal protection clause of the 14th amendment both houses of a bicameral state legislature must be apportioned on the basis of population

Question 22

Legislative reorganization act of 1970

Answer 22

Improve the operations of Congress and make its members more responsible to the public will

Question 23

Speaker of the house

Answer 23

John Boehner (R)

Question 24

House Minority Leader

Answer 24

Nancy Pelosi (D)

Question 25

Senate Minority Leader

Answer 25

Mitch McConnell (R)

Question 26

Senate majority leader

Answer 26

Harry Reid (D)

Question 27

House Majority Leader

Answer 27

Eric Cantor (R)

Question 28

Majority Whip of the house

Answer 28

Kevin McCarthy (R)

Question 29

Minority Whip of the house

Answer 29

Steny Hoyer (D)

Question 30

Minority Whip of the Senate

Answer 30

John Cornyn

Question 31

Majority whip of the Senate

Answer 31

Richard Durbin

Question 32

ProTempore

Answer 32

Patrick Leahy