How a Bill Becomes Law
Changes to a bill.
What are amendments?
# of representatives in the House.
435.
# of representatives in the Senate.
100.
Define bureaucracy.
What is a complex division of power in the government which is set up in the form of a hierarchy?
What role does the Speaker of the House have in the presidential succession?
What is 3rd in line?
A smaller group of representatives who meet to look at and make recommendations on proposed bills
What is a committee?
The leader of the House.
An example of a power that only the Senate has.
Trial for impeachment
Approve presidential nominations
Name for the people in a representative's district.
What are constituents?
Where all of the work in Congress gets done.
What are poison pills and riders?
The role of whips (both in the House and Senate)
What is help their leaders control the party, discipline members, and count votes?
The leader of the Senate (officially)?
President of the Senate (the Vice-President).
Describe gerrymandering.
What is redrawing district lines in an abusive way which benefits a political party?
What is discretionary spending?
Committee where members of both houses work out differences between their versions of a bill.
What is a conference committee?
A type of bill that must be initiated in the House
What are revenue bills?
A tactic to delay a vote on a bill that can only be used in the Senate
Filibuster.
Government spending on local projects that benefit a representative's home district.
What is pork?
Why is apportionment important?
It changes the makeup of congress and increases states powers in presidential elections and influence in congress.
The two ways a President can reject a bill.
What is a Regular Veto and a Pocket Veto?
How many representatives does each state have?
It depends on the population.
The current Senate Majority Leader.
Who is Mitch McConnell?
Advocating in Congress on behalf of a special interest group.
What is lobbying?
Why is the majority leader the real power of the Senate
What is he/she:
1) decides what bills will be discussed
2) assigns people to committees
3) therefore has more control over the legislative process