Legally Influencing Congress
Refers to a group of individuals who have the ability not only to influence members of Congress but also to inform the public
Organized Interest
There has been a recent trend in Congress where congressional members do NOT have a lot of time or resources to attempt to pass individual bills or amendments but, instead, attempt to put them all together to make sure package them together which makes the bill address many disparate topics. What do we call this type of bill
This type of committee accommodates the specific concerns of individual members.
Select Committee!
Created in 1890 and ending in 1900, this famous proposal and rule stated: “The Speaker shall entertain no dilatory motion.”
Reed Rules
This benefit refers to goods such as information publications, travel discounts, and group insurance rates that a group can restrict to those who pay their yearly dues.
Selective Benefit
This refers to an individual, either a former congressional member turned lobbyist or an experienced lobbyist who manages fundraising events.
Experienced Fundraiser
Refers to rules or regulations issued by an executive official to an administrative agency or executive department
Executive Orders
Refers to an informal group of lawmakers that come together to advance major issues that the committees or the leadership could not resolve
Political Gang
means that any lawmaker may propose germane (meaning relevant) amendments that comply with the House Rules and the 1974
Open Rule
These three aspects compose the idea of allocation of effort, and they are time, resources, and _________.
Energy!
The Honest Leadership and Government Act of 2007 led to the creation of this Congressional Office
Congressional Ethics Committee
These are rules or regulations issued by an executive official to an administrative agency or executive department.
Executive Order
According to this theory, committees highlight individualistic goal,s and committees are organized to give lawmakers policy influence in areas critical to their re-electio.n
Distributive Theory
There are some strategies to get a bill out of committee, one is a discharge petition, one is through the consensus calendar, and then the Calendar Wednesday rule, but there is one more which is through the _________.
Rules Committee
Refers to the situation and or environment that a person’s vote is affected by on an individual basis.
Vote Context
This type of bargaining occurs when members exchange support so that all parties to the deal attain their individual goals.
Log-Rolling
Convey tangible benefits – subsidies, tax breaks, or advantageous regulatory provisions to individuals, groups, or firms
Distributive Policies
According to this theory, committees are tools of the parties rather than serving the individualistic or institutional goals of the membership.
Partisan Theory
This calendar contains immigration requests or claims against the government.
Private Calendar
This refers to the ways and strategies that congressmen use to be rewarded by businesses without being punished by their constituents in the next election.
Tactical Rationality
Refers to a group of individuals that have a common interest and organize together to adequately address a specific issue and are created for the specific role of influencing politics
Interest Group
Refers to policies that are designed to protect the public from the harm or abuse that might result from unbridled private activity
Regulatory policies
This type of committee resolves any inconsistencies when the House and Senate have voted on distinctly different bills
Conference
Refers to the rule that says that legislative proposals cannot be included in the Senate reconciliation package if they are judged as “extraneous,” (not relevant) to budgetary spending or revenue
Byrd Rule
entails keeping a proposal alive while it picks up support, or waits for a better climate, or while a consensus begins to form
Policy Incubation