The person who runs the House of Representatives and becomes president after the vice president.
What is the Speaker of the House?
The #1 way for a member to get reelected
What is to be incumbent?
This where all revenue bills start
Where is the House of Representatives?
True/False: Every member must be on a standing committee
True
Two house congress (House of Representatives/Senate)
What is a Bicameral Legislature?
The person who runs the Senate (most of the time).
What is the majority leader?
Representatives act on the expressed wishes of their constituents
What is the Delegate Model?
What is a law?
What is the Joint Committee?
2
When this happens, the Vice President votes in the Senate.
What is a tie?
Representatives use their own judgement
What is the Trustee Model?
LONG speeches or debates made to halt action on a bill
What are filibusters?
Committee where a bill is ironed out
What is a Conference Committee?
Process of redrawing congressional lines for politics
What is gerrymandering?
This is the person who is under the majority/minority leaders.
Who is the whip?
Members switch between the other two models
What is the Politico Model?
Put these in 5 order of where a bill goes:
Full House/Senate
Subcommittee
Full Committee
House/Senate Committee
Conference Committee
House/Senate Committee
Subcommittee
Full Committee
Full House/Senate (for debate)
Conference Committee
What are committee chairs?
Number of voting members in HoR
435
The presiding officer of Senate
Who is the vice president?
What are name recognition, credit claiming, casework, franking privilege, access to media, ease in fundraising, experience running a campaign, and redistricting?
The four things a president can do to a bill
What is sign (make it a law), veteo, wait 10 days (and it becomes law), wait 10 days (Congress adjourns-no law)?
Committee established for a limited amount of time for a certain issue
What is a select/special committee?
1. Define Pork Requests
2. Define Oversight Function
3. Define Divided Government
1. Power to review, monitor, and supervise the executive branch, federal agencies, and policy implementation
2. Legislation that allows representatives to bring money and jobs to their districts
3. Legislation that allows representatives to bring money and jobs to their districts