Vocabulary
The money that people and business pay to support the activities of the govt.
What are Taxes?
This is a bill that deals with individual people or groups.
What is a private bill?
This is part of a funding bill that will go toward a certain purpose.
What is an earmark?
This person is a paid representative of an interest group who contacts government officials on behalf of these interest groups.
What is a lobbyist?
Congress appropriates billions of dollars for this type of project such as post offices, dams, military bases, river improvements, federally funded highways, veterans’ hospitals, pollution-treatment centers, and mass-transit system projects.
What are Public Works projects?
These are important sources of money and jobs to a state’s economy.
What are federal grants and contracts?
A provision included in a bill on a subject other than the one covered in the bill.
What is a rider?
This is a resolution passed in the same form by both houses.
What is a joint resolution?
This allows debate on the floor and adding amendments to a bill.
What is an open rule?
Constituents can influence their lawmaker’s view by one of the following methods.
What are town hall meetings, email or letters, surveys and polls?
Helping a soldier be stationed closer to home to be near his elderly parents is a form of this congressional support.
What is casework?
This committee must work out the difference between a bill passed by both houses.
What is a conference committee?
A resolution that keeps the government open and operating when Congress cannot agree on a new appropriation.
What is a continuing resolution?
The President kills a bill passed during the last 10 days Congress is in session by simply refusing to act on it.
What is a pocket veto?
This Senate committee has primary responsibility for tax matters.
What is Senate Finance Committee?
This is one of the most important influences on how a lawmaker votes.
What is Party Membership?
These are three things that a representative in Congress must do.
What is pass or oppose legislation, educate the public about issues and advocacy for their constituent’s interests?
A bill most likely to pass without interference or opposition would be considered under this type of debate.
What is a closed rule?
An agreement btw 2 or more lawmakers to support each others’ bills.
What is logrolling
Citizens can use this website published by Congress to search bill numbers or subjects.
What is congress.gov?
This type of bill establishes a federal program and says how much money can be used for it.
What is an authorization bill?
This person has great influence on getting bills passed into law.
Who is the President?
Casework is one way Congress learns how this branch of government is working.
What is the Executive Branch?
Congress can work to protect the rights of individual citizens by doing this.
What is writing and passing legislation?
A group of people with common goals who organize to influence government.
What are interest groups?
After hearings are over a committee meets in this type of session to decide what changes, if any, are needed on a bill.
What is a Markup Session?
This is the definition for a type of expenditure for a government entitlement program like Medicare or interest on the Federal Debt.
What is an uncontrollable expenditure?
Former Senate members are banned from lobbying for this length of time after they leave office.
What is two years?
The Appalachian Regional Commission project of Senator Byrd was considered this type of legislation.
What is pork-barrel legislation.
This representative body can cast a simple majority ruling with 218 votes.
What is the House of Representatives?
Former ND Senator Milton Young attached an earmark to a budget bill which would have funded a museum for this famous TV musical conductor in Strasburg, ND.
Who was Lawrence Welk?