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Question 1

Pork-barrel spending

Answer 1

Legislation that directs specifics funding to projects within districts and states

Question 2

Logrolling

Answer 2

trading of votes on legislation by members of Congress to get their earmarks passed into legislation

Question 3

Oversight

Answer 3

efforts by Congress to ensure that executive branch agencies, bureaus, and cabinet departments, as well as their officials, are acting legally and in accordance with congressional goals.

Question 4

constituency

Answer 4

a body of voters in a given area who elect a representative or senator.

Question 5

Apportionment

Answer 5

the process of determining the number of representatives for each state using census data.

Question 6

Redistricting

Answer 6

states’ redrawing of boundaries of electoral districts following each census.

Question 7

Gerrymandering

Answer 7

the intentional use of redistricting to benefit a specific interest or group of voters.

Question 8

Partisan gerrymandering

Answer 8

drawing of district boundaries into strange shapes to benefit a political party.

Question 9

Majority-minority districts

Answer 9

a district in which voters of a minority ethnicity constitute an electoral majority within that electoral district.

Question 10

Malapportionment

Answer 10

the uneven distribution of the population among legislative districts.

Question 11

Incumbency

Answer 11

being already in office as opposed to running for the first time

Question 12

Incumbency advantage

Answer 12

institutional advantages held by those already in office who are trying to fend off challengers in an election.

Question 13

what is the two bodies Congress

Answer 13

House of representatives, and the senate

Question 14

what happens when I congressman proposes a bill?


Answer 14

The speaker of the house, or the majority leader gives a del thoma committee, which gives it to a subcommittee

Question 15

Who holds hearings to oversee the executive branch

Answer 15

Congress

Question 16

Who has the power to create executive agencies
example of the clean air act 

Answer 16

congress

Question 17

Who authorizes the flow of money

Answer 17

congress

Question 18

what are the main powers of congress

Answer 18

Authority to make it past federal laws
Control the money
regulate trade 
impeach and remove the president
declare war
proposing ratify amendments to the constitution


Question 19

what is the house of representatives also referred to? 

Answer 19

lower house

Question 20

what number of representatives to each state get

Answer 20

population

Question 21

Who is features numbers of the executive in judicial branch? 

Answer 21

house of representatives

Question 22

How long do the representatives serve?

Answer 22

2 years

Question 23

what is the rules committee

Answer 23

determines whether bills have the close, the rule, or open rule 

Question 24

What does the speaker of the house to?

Answer 24

They assign people to committees who assign other people to committees

Question 25

What is the Senate also referred to?

Answer 25

The upper house

Question 26

How many senators does each state get?

Answer 26

2

Question 27

What is the difference between the representatives and the senate in regards to impeachment?

Answer 27

The representatives impeaches numbers, where is senators try the members

Question 28

How long do senators serve?

Answer 28

6 years

Question 29

what are several senate responsibilities?

Answer 29

confirms presidential appointments, nominees, ratify treaties, and confirming the budget  what are the

Question 30

does the senate have a rule’s committee

Answer 30

no, Debate is always unlimited

Question 31

What does senate filibuster mean?

Answer 31

Because the date is unlimited, minority party can kill Bill by continuing to talk

Question 32

How do you end a debate and a filibuster in the senate?

Answer 32

by a cloture a vote of 3/5 of the senate 

Question 33

what is cloture

Answer 33

3/5 votes in the Senate to end debate in a filibuster

Question 34

what is a rider in the senate

Answer 34

irrelevant amendments to bills

Question 35

what is a standing committee

Answer 35

permanent panel with full legislative functions in oversight responsibilities. The members become experts. 

Question 36

what is a example of the standing committees in the House of Representa

Answer 36

Appropriations set specific expenditures for the federal government rules, determines under what rules Bill comes to the floor 

Question 37

What are some senate examples of standing committee?

Answer 37

armed services overseas military defense for in relation provide forgisn policy leadership 

Question 38

What is a subcommittee?

Answer 38

form to tackle specific task within standing committees 

Question 39

House examples of a house sub committee

Answer 39

Livestock dairy in poultry subcommittee of agriculture

Question 40

What is an example of a senate subcommittee?

Answer 40

Healthcare subcommittee subcommittee a finance committee

Question 41

what is a selected special committee

Answer 41

temporary groups with limited purposes such as investigation

Question 42

what is an example of a house select your special

Answer 42

Watergate committee

Question 43

What is an example of sensate it select or special committee

Answer 43

Select Kennedy on Epix

Question 44

What is a joint committee

Answer 44

Includes the members of both houses to perform housekeeping task of studies

Question 45

What is an example of a joint committee?

Answer 45

Economic committee

Question 46

What is a conference committee?

Answer 46

Special type of joint committee that reconciles senate and house versions of a bill

Question 47

what presidential powers are over the cabinet

Answer 47

picks the heads of the 15 most important agencies - department of defense state treasury

Question 48

what is the powers in office of management and budget

Answer 48

writes budget

Question 49

what are the four informal powers of the president

Answer 49

Executive orders -orders written by the president or the agency they have the weight of plan. But the president can resend it or congress dee, unconstitutional. Executive privilege- he can keep certain documents private agenda setting - he sets out the legislative he wants passed Impoundment -ability to refuse to spend appropriated by congress (if this was ruled unconstitutional )

Question 51

What are the serious debates between?

Answer 51

federalist versus anti-federalist north versus south big states versus small states over new government 

Question 52

What is the north-south compromise?

Answer 52

3/5 compromise in which slaves counted as 3/5 of a person to give yourself more representatives

Question 53

why did the anti-federalist oppose the constitution?

Answer 53

They thought the national government would become tranney and take power away from the states

Question 54

What does federalist 10 state

Answer 54



Question 55

What does federalist paper 51 State

Answer 55

Written by Madison discusses importance of checks and balances in the separation of powers in the constitution

Question 56

which court case set the dogma of judicial review

Answer 56

Marbury versus Madison