A bill that is placed before other more important bills to delay discussion.
What is a blocking bill?
100
The names of the presiding officers of the Senate and House and the names of their offices.
What is David Dewhurst (president of the Senate), Joe Strauss (speaker of the House)?
100
Strongest power the governor has.
What is the power of persuasion?
100
Formal powers.
What are those clearly defined in the Texas constitution? (examples: appointment power, removal powers, budget powers, etc.)
100
According to Dr. Huerta, the healthcare bill may be considered constitutional due to this power written into the constitution.
What is the necessary and proper clause & the interstate commerce clause?
200
Talking a bill to death.
What is a filibuster?
200
Procedural tools of the presiding officer.
What are powers to appoint chairs & members to committees, appoint members to conference committees, schedule legislation for floor action, and assign bills to committees?
200
The governor's power to item veto gives him the power to do this.
What is change appropriations of a bill (the money)?
200
The governor's role in the Texas budget.
What is the governor has little power; only the power to speak publicly about the priorities of the state?
200
Message Power.
What is the governor's power to appeal to the public through the media?
300
The legislator who writes a bill is know as this to the bill.
What is the sponsor?
300
Things that can happen in committee.
What is bill can die, be buried, discharge petition, and be changed, be sent to the calendar?
300
The threat of the veto is this type of power.
What is an informal power?
300
The reason bargaining is such an important tool of the governor.
What is to figure out what legislation is likely to pass during the SHORT legislative session?
300
When a filibuster is likely to take place.
What is at the end of the legislative session?
400
The way a conference committee is created and why.
What is the presiding officers choose five people each from the House and the Senate when a different version of a bill is passed in one of the chambers?
400
The Senate calendar works this way.
What is based on the chronological order of when a bill leaves committee?
400
The power to call the legislature to convene at any time.
What is the power the call special sessions?
400
Governor Perry vetoed a bunch of legislation without warning.
What is Father's Day Massacre?
400
A veto override is possible if ______.
What is 2/3 vote by the House, but it rarely happens?
500
The most powerful committee in the House.
What is the House Rules Committee?
500
Institutional power of the presiding officers.
What is the power to affect administrative processes?
500
This happens if the governor doesn't sign or veto a bill.
What is the bill becomes law after 10 days if the legislature is in session and it becomes law after 20 days fi the legislature is not in session?
500
The plural executive does this to the governor's power.
What is limits it by distributing it among a group of other elected and appointed officials?
500
The reason the concealed handguns on college campuses didn't make it to the floor.
What is the Senate couldn't get a two-thirds vote to bring it to the floor to suspend the rule of the Senate calendar?