Election of the House
State seat share in the House is based on this.
What is population of the state?
The role that presides over the House, sets the agenda, controls the committee assignments and tries to keep the party together.
What is the Speaker of the House?
This step is important to expand support for the legislation.
What is Step 2: co-sponsorship?
What is a primary election?
This is the method proposed at the constitutional convention that would consist of popular vote of the legislative branch and the legislative branch appointing the executive branch. AKA Parliamentary.
What is the method of legislative action?
the allocation of House seats to the states after each census to reflect population shifts
This role serves as principal strategist, spokesperson for the party, and floor monitor.
What is the role of the Majority Leader?
This step is when bills are given to a committee/committees to look over.
What is step 3: bill referral?
Original method of choosing a presidential candidate, meeting rather than election, can take hours.
What is a caucus?
Senators + total congressmen
What is the formula for how many electors a state has in the electoral college?
states draw new boundaries of congressional districts, usually after the census
What is redistricting?
This role encourages party discipline, counts votes, and mobilizes winning coalitions.
What is the role of the Whip?
Members of Congress must do this, but groups agencies and parties can draft it.
What is step 1: Bill introduction?
Parties allocate these to the convention to each state based on a set formula.
What are delegates?
This criticism discusses the unfairness that small states have at least 3 votes regardless of population.
What is the criticism of over representation of Certain States?
drawing district boundaries within a state so that districts are very unequal in population
What is malapportionment?
Deals with committee assignments
What is the role of steering committee?
Hearings and markups happen at this stage.
What is step 4: committee action?
the selection of delegates by the states to the national nominating conventions earlier and earlier in the year
What is frontloading?
The Supreme Court case that declared malapportionment unconstitutional due to the dilution of an individual's vote.
What is Wesberry v. Sanders
Converts party interests into public policy.
What is the role of the Policy Committee?
There are two parts to this step, one in the house and one in the Senate. In the senate, this is the step where filibusters can occur.
What is step 5: Floor Action?
officials in several geographically concentrated states decide on a date when all the states will hold their primary
What are regional primaries?