Congress
Define Filibuster
A tactic used in the U.S. Senate to block a bill.
Leaders of a congressional committee who have authority over the committee's agenda
What are the committee chairs?
___ is an act of Congress that created the first US Civil Service Commission to draw up and enforce rules on hiring, promoting, and tenure of office within the civil service.
What is the Pendleton Act?
Questions asked to gauge a nominee's beliefs on an important topic
What is the Litmus Test?
Which amendment deals with Presidential removal?
Coordinated and mutually beneficial activities of the bureaucracy, Congress, and interest groups to achieve shared policy goals.
What is the Iron Triangle?
PAC is an organization that raises money for candidates and campaigns. What is PAC
An official employed within a government bureaucracy
What is a bureaucrat?
Stand by Decision is also known as this
What is Stare Decisis?
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is an example of this
What is an independent agency?
Free postage on all mail to constituents.
What is the Franking Privilege?
The idea that the main duty of a member of congress is to carry out constituent wishes.
What is the delegate role?
Define Federal Bureaucracy
Power to rule as a law of government regulation as unconstitutional
What is Judicial Review?
Define a Direct Popular Election
The winner is chosen of the citizens popular vote
The intentional use of redistricting to benefit a specific interest or group of voters.
What is Gerrymandering?
The idea that members of Congress should act as trustees, making decisions based on their knowledge and judgments
What is a trustee role?
The merit-based bureaucracy, excluding the armed forces and political appointments.
What is the Federal Civil Service?
Send the case back for a lower court to decide if it ends in a tie is known as
What is remanding a case?
Define an Executive Order
A directive from the President that has nearly the same power as federal law.
If Congress declares war, this is an example of what
What are the expressed powers?
When is the Lame Duck Period?
The period at the end of a presidential term when Congress may block presidential initiatives and nominees
This is known as the power to decide how a law is implemented and what the law actually meant
What is Bureaucratic Discretion?
True or False: There are NO constitutional qualifications for judges
What is true?
Define a swing state
What is a state that could reasonably be won by either the Democratic or Republican presidential candidate?