Vocab 1
A member of a lawmaker’s personal staff who handles requests for help from consultants.
Caseworkers
A proposed law
Bill
The House has a total of how many goals?
6
A schedule that lists the order in which bills can be considered in Congress.
Calendar
A group within a standing committee that specializes in a subcategory of its standing committee’s responsibilities.
Subcommittee
The people who work for the House and Senate committees.
Committee Staff
The speaker's top assistant, whose job is to help plan the majority party’s legislative program and to steer important bills through the house.
Majority Leader
Name the 3 branches of government
AND
Name the first Disney movie
Legislative, Judicial, Executive
Snow White and the seven dwarfs
To draw a district's boundaries to gain advantage in elections.
Gerrymander
A permanent committee in Congress that oversees bills that deal with certain types of issues.
Standing committee
The people who work directly for individual senators and representatives.
Personal Staff
A method of defeating a bill in the senate by stalling the legislative process and preventing a vote.
Filibuster
The Constitution requires a supermajority o
2/3
A population count
Census
A temporary joint committee set up when the House and the Senate have passed different versions of a bill.
Conference Committee
A member of a lawmaker’s personal staff who runs the lawmaker’s office, supervises the schedule, and gives advice.
Administrative assistant
A motion placed on a bill in the Senate that alerts party leaders that if unanimous consent were to be sought, they would object.
Hold
Most popular Disney movie?
Frozen (2013)
To set up new district lines after reapportionment is complete.
Redistrict
A temporary committee formed to study one specific issue and report its findings to the House and Senate.
Select Committees
A procedure that allows each senator to speak only one hour on a bill under debate.
Cloture Resolution
The senate member, elected by the Senate, who stands in as the president of the Senate in the absence of the vice president.
President Pro Tempore
Price??
Avengers: Infinity War Avengers: Endgame
1,000
The process of reassigning representation based on population, after every census.
Reapportionment
A committee that consists of members from both the House and Senate, formed to act as a study group that reports back to the House and Senate on a topic or bill.
Joint Committee