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19 Cards in this Set
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Incumbents |
Those individuals who already hold office |
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Casework |
Activities of members of Congress to give people what they think they have a right to get. |
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Pork barrel |
Federal projects, grants, and contracts available to State and local governments, busineess, colleges, and other institutions in a congressional district |
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Bicameral legislature |
A legislature divides into two houses |
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House rules committee |
Reviews most bills coming from a house committee before they go full house |
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Filibuster |
This strategy unique to the Senate whereby opponents of a piece of legislation use their right to unlimited debate to prevent the Senate from vetoing a bill |
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Speaker of the House |
An office mandated by the Constitution |
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Majority leader |
The principal partisan Ally of the speaker of the house or the majority's partys manager in the senate |
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Whips |
Party leaders who work with the majority leader or minority leaders to count votes beforehand and lean on waverers whose votes are crucial to the passage of a bill favored by the party |
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Minority leader |
Principled leader of minority party of the House of Representatives or in the senate |
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Standing committees |
Committees in each house of Congress that handle bills in different policy areas |
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Joint Committee |
Congressional committees on a few subject-matter areas with membership drawn from both houses |
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Conference committees |
Congressional committees formed when the Senate and the House pass a particular bill in different forms |
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Select committees |
Congressional committees for need for a specific purpose such as the Watergate investigation |
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Legislation oversight |
Congress's monitoring of the executive branch bureaucracy and its administration of policy, performed mainly through Committee hearings |
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Committee chairs |
They play the dominant role in scheduling hearings, hiring staff, appointing subcommittees, and managing committee bills when they are brought for the flats |
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Seniority system |
Simple rule for picking committee chairs, in effect until the 1970s |
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Caucus (Congressional) |
A group of members of Congress sharing some interest or characteristics |
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Bill |
A proposed law, drafted in legal language |
