Congress
People that congress represent.
What is Constituent?
The powers that are granted to congress by the Constitution.
What are Expressed Powers
When the party in charge of a state draw the lines in favor of there political party.
What is Gerrymandering?
The Vice Presidents position in the Senate.
Who is President of the Senate?
They go thru the same process as a bill but are used for out of the ordinary circumstances.
What is Joint Resolution?
The distribution of seats in the house based on population of the state.
What is Apportionment?
Congress can only do this before the US joins a conflict.
What is a declaration of war?
The most powerful person in the House.
Who is Speaker of the House?
The most powerful person in the Senate.
Who is the Senate Majority Leader?
when a majority of embers in the house sign a petition to force a bill out if committee.
What is Discharge Petition?
The type of congress we have.
What is bicameral?
This is when the seats in the House are redistributed.
What is Reapportionment?
The person from each party who helps manage actions and strategies of there party.
Who is the Floor Leader?
The person who takes place for the President of the Senate if they are unable to attend.
Who is President Pre Tempore?
Where the whole house debates a bill and where each member essentially become a member of a committee.
What is Committee of the Whole?
Congress alone has the power to approve government spending.
What is Appropriation?
Legal document that require a person to testify in a certain matter.
What is Subpoenas?
A meeting of all the House members from a particular party.
what is Party Caucus?
When a topic is debated about for so long of a time to prevent it from coming to a vote.
What is Filibuster?
The minimum number of members to conduct business in the House.
What is Quorum?
Congress has the power to review how the executive branch is operating and to make sure it follows the law.
What is Congressional Oversight?
The US government has the right to regulate interstate commerce.
What is Commerce Clause?
The permanent committees that are in the House.
What is Standing Committees?
When a 2/3rd vote will end a debate.
What is Cloture?
Votes where each member is required to publicly state there vote.
What is roll-call vote?