REPRESENTATION
Packing and Cracking are two examples of this redistricting strategy.
What is gerrymandering?
In 2011, Nancy Pelosi became the first woman to assume this position of leadership.
What is the Speaker of the House?
In the most recent midterm election, Republicans maintained their position as this type of party in the Senate.
What is the majority party?
When a bill is passed in both the House and Senate for differing reasons, it is sent to this type of joint committee to resolve the differences.
What is a conference committee?
With each census every ten years, the 435 seats of the House are rearranged by state (via population) by means of this process.
What is apportionment?
Senator Orrin Hatch will soon retire from this honorary position of leadership.
What is the President Pro Tempore of the Senate?
The House Ways and Means committee (on taxes) is an example of this type of permanent congressional commission.
What is a standing committee?
The House votes to initiate this check on the executive branch, while the Senate votes to confirm it.
What is impeachment?
In Reynolds v. Sims, the Supreme Court ruled this imbalance in representation illegal.
What is malapportionment?
If Rep. Barbara Lee (D) voted for Rep. Paul Ryan's (R) bill in exchange for his support for hers, the two Congresspeople would be partaking in this legislative strategy.
What is logrolling?
The Blue Dog Coalition and Tuesday Group are two examples of this type of Congressional gathering.
What is a congressional caucus?
Also describing the cream that tops a banana split, this bicameral position refers to the individual in each party responsible for gathering support for a particular bill.
What is a whip?
If Rep. Maxine Waters were to make congressional decisions solely based on the desires of those in her Los Angeles district, she would be taking on this representational role.
What is a delegate?
Due to her party's standing in 2018, Sen. Dianne Feinstein led her fellow Democrats in the Senate Judiciary Committe in the Kavanaugh hearing under this title.
What is the ranking member?
The numerical value in The Three-Fifths Compromise is proportional to the number of Senators required to cut off debate via this mechanism.
What is a cloture?
If Rep. Danny Davis (D, Chicago) attached a provision to provide government funding for a water slide in Milleniuim Park on a bill regarding national healthcare, he would be instituting this type of legislation that also defines the main ingredient in Carnitas.
What is pork?
If Rep. Steve Scalise favored a bill, but could not gain the support of his committee to pass it, he could use this rare vote of the quorum to advance it to the House floor.
What is a discharge petition?