Chapter 8

Question 1

Joint committee

Answer 1

made up of members of both houses to deal with matters of mutual concern, conducts investigations

Question 2

Committee on committees

Answer 2

nominated members of the party to serve on the various standing committees

Question 3

Subcommittee

Answer 3

division of standing committee that deals with specific issues in the area handled by the committee as a whole

Question 4

Conference committee

Answer 4

temporary committee made up of senators and representatives who try to reach agreement on different versions of a bill, happens when both senators and house of representatives don’t agree on a bill

Question 5

Select committee

Answer 5

temporary house or senate committee appointed to deal with an issue not handled by a standing committee

Question 6

Standing committee

Answer 6

permanent house or senate committee that considers bills in a certain area

Question 7

congress can

Answer 7

declare war, borrow money, provide and maintain the navy, establish laws, provide patents, regulate commerce

Question 8

congress cannot

Answer 8

pass bills of attainder, ex post facto laws, grant titles of nobility, tax exports, give preference to one states ports over another, suspend the writ of habeas corpus without specific circumstances

Question 9

how does a bill become a law

Answer 9

bill introduced in house or senate, then sent to committee for hearings, then debated on the floor, then voted on, then sent to other chamber, then steps 1-4 is repeated in other chamber, then if passed by both chambers it’s sent to the president

Question 10

speaker of the house

Answer 10

most powerful member of the house decides who may speak

Question 11

house majority leader

Answer 11

in both the house and the senate, the party with more members is called the majority party

Question 12

majority whip

Answer 12

aid floor leaders in each house try to persuade members to support the party’s position on key issues

Question 13

president pro tempore

Answer 13

presides over senate when vice president is absent