Page 4 Flashcards
When legislators with influence in the appropriations process work to assure that large amounts of public funds are spent in their districts, spending that can help their reelection prospects, it is known as ______
Porkbarreling
It is known as ________ when two or more members of a legislative body agree in advance to support one another’s bills
Logrolling
In a typical modern regular session of the Texas legislature, there is a total of over ______ bills introduced, with only about 30 percent being adopted as law.
5000
Under the rules of the Texas senate, it is possible for as few as _____ members to block legislation through parliamentary procedures
11
In 1979, a group of Texas senators who boycotted a specific presidential primary bill pushed by lieutenant governor Bill Hobby, and kept business from taking place because they kept the required number from being achieved in order to do business, came to be known as the ______
Killer bees
In 2003, a group of Texas democratic house members fled to Oklahoma and a group of Texas democratic senators fled to New Mexico during a session in order to stop a quorum of republicans from redrawing legislative maps before the next census, a group that came to be known as the _______
Killer D’s
In the Texas senate, it takes a vote of _______ of the total senate in order to suspend the rules and take a bill out of order for consideration
Two-thirds
A piece of legislation is known as a _____ bill when it combines a number of small pieces of legislation with one larger bill
Omnibus
Any piece of proposed legislation which probably would not pass so it is added to a piece of legislation which probably will be adopted is called a _____
Rider
Anytime that a legislature follows a customary practice of assigning committee chairmanship’s to members who serve on committees previously is known as the _____ rule
Seniority
The most important type of committee and either the US Congress or state legislature is the ______ committee, a committee which is established to deal with designated areas of public policy
Standing
A ______ committee is a temporary joint committee composed of select the numbers of members from each chamber of a bicameral legislature with the assignment of working out differences I legislation considered in both houses
Conference
In Texas, a conference committee is composed of a total of ______members, with the same number of members coming from each legislative chamber
Ten
in the Texas Legislature, members of legislative committees in both chambers gain their positions through a process of ______
Presiding officer appointment
