Committees
Rules and Functions
Elections and Parties
Making a Law
Grab Bag
100
This type of committee handles how much money will be spent in a given year on particular government activities.
What is Appropriations?
100
How often does the number of representatives have to change based on population?
What is every ten years?
100
This characteristic is the best predictor in who will win in a Congressional election.
What is incumbency?
100
Supporting one another's legislation in Congess is known as this
What is logrolling?
100
An example of this would be Congress conducting an investigation to uncover an executive department's wrongdoing.
What is oversight?
200
This committee reconciles differences between the House and Senate version of a bill.
What is a conference committee?
200
Congressional oversight hearings typically take place through this venue
What is committee and subcommittee meetings?
200
Party unity in Congress is maintained by this system of influence. Each party has one in each house of Congress.
What is the whip system?
200
This type of veto is unconstitutional at the federal level (after Clinton tried it), but is still used by some state governors.
What is a line-item veto?
200
The term used for the relationship between the federal bureaucracy, congressional committees, and lobbyists.
What is an iron triangle?
300
This type of committee is a permanent subject-matter committee.
What is a standing committee?
300
This body of Congress has unlimited debate.
What is the Senate?
300
Name one advantage of incumbency.
What is increased campaign contributions, services for constituents, franking, etc.
300
A type of legislation that provides funding for local projects that are intended to benefit constituents
What is pork barrel legislation?
300
The largest portion of the federal budget is goes to this area of spending.
What is social security?
400
This type of committee may investigate an issue, but cannot forward a bill to either house of Congress
What is a joint committee?
400
This is the purpose of a filibuster
What is to delay or kill a bill.
400
The right of members of Congress to send mail to their constituents at the government's expense
What are franking privileges?
400
When submitting budget requests, executive agencies submit these proposals to this person.
What is the President?
400
Federal benefits that must be funded by Congress and paid to citizens who meet eligibility requirements.
What are entitlements?
500
This committee in the House sets conditions for debate and amendments.
What is Rules Committee?
500
This is used in the Senate to end debate on a bill, but it requires 3/5 of the vote.
What is cloture?
500
This person is the head of the Senate.
What is the Vice President?
500
The president failing to sign a bill after Congress's session has ended.
What is a pocket veto?
500
The amount the government spends in excess of its revenues
What is a budget deficit?
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