Vocabulary
A charge levied by government on persons or property to raise money to meet public needs
What is a tax
A proposed law presented to the House or the Senate for consideration
What is a bill
Who is recognized as the father of the present-day postal system?
Who is Ben Franklin
Congress’s only powers are granted by what document?
What is the Constitution
What is a pocket veto?
What is if Congress adjourns its session within 10 days of submitting a bill to the President, and the President does not act, the measure dies
All of the money borrowed by the Federal Government over the years and not yet repaid
What is the public debt
Refuse to sign a bill
What is a veto
A replacement, someone to fill the vacancy
What is a successor
What is the commerce power?
What is the power of Congress to regulate interstate and foreign trade
What is a filibuster?
What is an attempt to “talk a bill to death.” It is a stalling tactic by which a minority of senators seeks to delay or prevent Senate action on a measure
The Constitutional basis for the existence of the implied powers
What is the Necessary and Proper Clause
What does pigeon-holed mean?
What is when bills die or are buried in committee
Who are the president officers for each house of Congress?
Who are the The Speaker of the House and The President of the Senate.
What did the strict constructionists argue?
What is the Anti-Federalist position from the ratification period. They insisted that Congress should be able to exercise its expressed powers and only those implied powers absolutely necessary to carry out those expressed powers.
Who are the floor leaders?
What is next to the speaker, the floor leaders in the House and the Senate are the most important officers in Congress. They are legislative strategists. They try to steer floor action to their parties’ benefit.
A general agreement
What is a consensus
What is a discharge petition?
What is a document that enables members to force a bill that has remained in committee for 30 days
Assistant floor leaders are also known as what?
What are whips
What did the liberal constructionists want?
What is they favored a liberal interpretation of the Constitution with a broad construction of the powers it gives to Congress.
A legal order directing one to appear before a legal body and/or produce certain evidence
What is a subpoena
The closed meeting of the members of each party in each house.
What is the party caucus
Provides that the most important posts in Congress, in both the formal and the party organizations, will be held by those party members with the longest records of service
What is seniority rule
What is the job of the President pro tempore?
What is they serve the senate in The Vice President’s absence
What does Congress have the power to investigate, to inquire into, or inform itself on?
What is any matter that falls with the scope of its lawmaking authority.
What is perjury?
What is lying under oath