Chapter 12 Vocab Quiz pt 1

Question 1

Incumbents

Answer 1

Members of office

Question 2

Casework

Answer 2

The activities of congress that help constituents as individuals by helping people to get what they have a right to get.

Question 3

Pork Barrel

Answer 3

Federal grants, projects, and contracts available to state/local governments and other institutions in a congressional district.

Question 4

Bicameral Legislature

Answer 4

The division of the legislature into 2.

Question 5

House Rules Committee

Answer 5

Committee in the House that reviews most bills before they go into the Full House.

Question 6

Filibuster

Answer 6

A tactic used by opponents of a bill preventing them from ever getting passed and ever getting voted on.

Question 7

Speaker of the House

Answer 7

The chief among leadership positions in the House of Representatives.

Question 8

Majority Leader

Answer 8

The principal partisan ally of the Speaker of the House. or the party’s manager in the senate.

Question 9

Whips

Answer 9

Party leaders who work with the Majority and Minority Leader to count votes beforehand and leaning on waverers whose votes are critical to a bill.

Question 10

Minority Leader

Answer 10

The principal leader of the minority party or the House of Representatives or in the Senate