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Structure & Organization
Legislative Process
Committees
Powers of Congress
Vocabulary
100
This is a leader of the House.
Who is the Speaker/majority leader/minority leader/whip?
100
All bills start out as this.
What is an idea?
100
This committee is the "traffic officer" of the House of Representatives.
What is the House Rules Committee?
100
This is also known as the "necessary and proper" clause.
What is the elastic clause?
100
This type of bill authorizes spending money.
What is an appropriation bill?
200
This leader decides which House members speak first.
Who is the Speaker of the House?
200
This is a session during which committee members go through the bill section by section, making any changes they think the bill needs.
What is a markup session?
200
These committees are permanent groups that oversee bills that deal with certain kinds of issues.
What are standing committees?
200
These are powers specifically granted to Congress by the Constitution.
What are expressed powers?
200
These people are assistant floor leaders in the House of Representatives.
Who are whips?
300
This leader helps plan the legislative program.
Who is the majority/minority leader?
300
This is a provision on a subject other than the one covered in the bill.
What is a rider?
300
Temporary committees that study one specific issue and report their findings to the Senate of House are called this.
What are select committees?
300
These powers include borrowing money, prohibiting discrimination, and creating a draft.
What are implied powers?
300
This is the term describing when a divided government refuses to cooperate, resulting in legislation not getting passed.
What is a gridlock?
400
This chooses the House Speaker at the start of each session in Congress.
What is a caucus?
400
This process rejects a bill by ignoring it and simply letting it die.
What is pigeonholing?
400
The reason why committees are more important in the House than they are in the Senate is because the House has this.
What is a larger membership?
400
This clause has given Congress many implied powers because of its loose interpretation. (not the elastic clause)
What is the commerce clause?
400
This is the killing of a bill by ignoring it/ not letting it be voted on the floor.
What is pigeonholing?
500
This leader makes sure members are present to vote.
Who is a whip?
500
This forbids house members from offering any amendments to a bill from the floor.
What is closed rule?
500
This gives the member of the majority party with the longest uninterrupted service on a particular committee the leadership of that committee.
What is the seniority system?
500
This is a synonym for expressed power.
What is an enumerated power?
500
This rule forbids members to offer amendments to a bill on the floor.
What is the closed rule?