Terms From Chapter 5 Gov't

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#1) Has more power than any other branch of government

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#1) Legislative Branch

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#2) First Branch of this Government

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#2) Congress

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#3) Congress plays a central role in formulating ________________

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#3) national policies

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#4) means made up of two house, the senate and House of Representatives

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#4) bicameral legislature

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#5) Each term of Congress starts on ______ number years last for _______ years

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#5) odd, 2

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#6) Congress is divided into __________ or meetings

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#6) sessions

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#7) Congress remains in session until _______________________

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#7) votes to adjourn

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#8) Neither house nor the Senate may adjorn for more than ______ days without the approval of the other house.

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#8) 3

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#9) If Congress is adjourned the _______________ may call it back for a special session

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#9) president

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#10) __________________ is the large body of congress

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#10) House of Representatives

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#11) House seats must be _____________________ among the states

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#11) divided

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#12) Representatives must be at least______________ and be citizens for ______ years and be ______________of the state that elects them

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#12) 25 years old, 7 years, legal resident

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#13) Representatives live in the ________________they represent

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#13) district

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#14) Every __________years all members of the House must run for reelection.

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#14) 2

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#15) If a representative dies or resigns in the 1st session of Congress, the state must hold a _________________ to fill the vacancy

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#15) special election

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#16) _________________is a population count

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#16) census

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#17) A census is taken every _________

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#17) 10 years

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#18) The last census was in ____________

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#18) 2010

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#19) States with slow population growth or a population decrease may lose ______________________

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#19) representatives

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#20) when population of each state determines the new number of representatives it is entitled___________________

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#20) reapportionment

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#21) Limits the House to 435 representatives______________________________________

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#21) Reapportionment Act of 1929

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#22) Process of setting up new district lines after reapportionment has been completed is_______________

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redistricting

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#23) Representatives are elected from ___________
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#23) congressional districts

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#24) 2 ways redistricting was abused

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#24) unequal population and gerrymandering

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#25) Ex. of __________________, some states in which the largest district in he state had twice the population of the smallest district.

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#25) gerrymandering

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#26) # of congressional districts in AL after ther 2000 census

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#26) 7

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#27) court case that said the court held that federal courts could decide conflicts over drawing district boundaries

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#27) Baker v. Carr

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#28) Court case held that the equal protection clause of the 14th amendment required that seats in both houses of the Alabama state legislature be apportioned on a population basis.

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#28) Reynold V. Sims

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#29) Court case, court ruled that the Constitution clearly intended that a vote in one congressional district was to be worth as much as a vote in another district.

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#29) Wesberry V. Sanders

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#30) Term Gerrymandering can be traced to

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#30) Elbridge Gerry

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#31) Means that the political party controlling that state government draws a district's boundaries to gain an advantage in elections.

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#31) Gerrymandering

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#32) _______________ and _______________ are ways to gerrymander

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#32) packing and cracking

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#33) means drawing the lines so they include as many of the opposing party's voters as possible

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#33) Packing a distirct

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#34) dividing an opponent's voters into other districts, to weaken the opponent's voter base.

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#34) Cracking

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#35) The supreme court ruled that congressional districts must be _________________________

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#35) compact and contiguous, or physically adjoining.

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#36) The senate includes _________members, _____ from each state

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#36) 100, 2

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#37) Senators must be at least ________ years old, citizens of the US for at least ____ years and a legal ________of the state they represent.

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#37) 30, 9, resident

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#38) Both Senate and House begin there terms on _________________, after the November election.

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#38) January 3rd

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#39) All voters of each state elect senators ____________

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#39) at-large, or statewide

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#40) If a senator dies or resigns before the end of the term, the ___________can appoint someone or call a special election.

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#40) governor

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#41) The senate and the house sets their own _____________

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#41) salaries

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#42) money paid for speeches________________

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#42) honoraria

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#43) prohibits a sitting Congress from giving itself a pay raise

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#43) 27th Amendment

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#44) postage for official business

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#44) franking privilege

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#45) Senator hold office for a term of _____ years

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#45) 6 years

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#46) ______________ of the senators run for reelection every 2 years

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#46) 1/3

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#47) Members of Congress cannot be __________ for anything they say on the House or Senate floor.

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#47) sued

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#48) Supreme Court ruled that members of Congress may be sued for libel for statements they make in news releases or newsletters.

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#48) Hutchinson V Proxmire

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#49) The power of the house to refuse to seat an elected member by majority vote.

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#49) Exclusion

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#50) Grounds for expulsion for members of Congress

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#50) treason, accepting bribes

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#51) Members of Congress guilty of lesser crimes may be _________________

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censured, (formal disapproval)

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#52) Congress includes a total of _________ members, ______senators and _______representatives

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#52) 535, 100, 435

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#53) Nearly ________ the members of Congress are lawyers.

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#53) half

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#54) The average age of members of Congress is usually over __________

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#54) 50

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#55) members already in office

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#55) incumbents

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#56) A modern method of campaigning

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#56) Internet

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#57) Main task of each house of Congress

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#57) to make laws

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#58) Legislators must have _____________to express their sometimes ninflammatory opinions

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#58) freedom

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#59) The House and Senate each print their own rules every _____

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#59) 2 years

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#60) House debates rarely last more than ___________

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#60) one day

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#61) Who has more power according to their rules? the House of the Senate

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#61) The House

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#62) _______________ do most of the work in Congress

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#62) committees

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#63) people in the districts they house members represent

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#63) constituents

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#64) only trained librarian in Congress who promotes literacy

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#64) Major R. Owens from NY

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#65) House members are elected from_______________

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#65) districts

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#66) 50 years after his bravery in WWII this african american received the medal of honor

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#66) Vernon Baker

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#67) Republicans sit on the ________side and Democrats on the ___________

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#67) right, left

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#68) In each house the ________________ selects the leaders of that body, controls the flow of legislative work, and appoints committee chairs.

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#68) the Majority party

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#69) _____________ is the presiding officer of the House and its most powerful leader

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#69) Speaker of the House

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#70) another name for closed meeting

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#70) caucus

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#71) ______________ of the majority party chooses the House Speaker

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#71) caucus or closed meeting

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#72) The ________________-follows the vice-president in the line of succession to the presidency

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#72) The Speaker of the House

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#73) Speaker's top assistant is the __________________

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#73) majority leader

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#74) _______________ job is to plan the party's legislative program, steer important bill's, etc.

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#74) majority leader

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#75) serve as assistant floor leaders

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#75) whips

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#76) ___________job is to persuade votes, & see that party members are present to vote

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#76) majority whip

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#77) The House of Representatives seems _____________

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#77) disorganized

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#78) ______________ is normally in session Mon-Fri

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#78) the house

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#79) All laws start as__________

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#79 bills

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#80) before a bill becomes a law it has to be ______________________________________

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#80) passed by both houses of Congress and signed by the president

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#81) mahogany box that bills are introduced in ________

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#81 hopper

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#82) list bills up for consideration

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#82) calendars

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#83) _______________ list bills dealing with money issues

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#83) Union Calendar

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#84) Public bills go on the ___________ calendar

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#84) House Calendar

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#85) ________calendar lists bills that deal with individual people or places

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#85) Private Calendar

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#86) Any bill the House gives unanimous consent to debate out of regular oder is listed on the ______________Calendar

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#86) Consent Calendar

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#87) ____________________used for petitions to discharge a bill from committee

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#87) Discharge Calendar

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#88) ________________- serves as the traffic officer

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#88) Rules Committee

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#89) ______________ can move bills quickly, hold them back, or stop them completely

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#89) Rules Committee

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#90) Once speaker of the House

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#90) Newt Gingrich

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#91) Major bills that reach the floor of the House for debate and vote do so by a _________ or special order

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#91) "rule"

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#92) The __________________ also settles disputes among House committees

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#92) Rules Committee

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#93) the _________________can not pass a bill

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#93) Committee of the Whole

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#94) The ________ is a deliberative body who represent entire states

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#94) Senate

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#95) The senate allows unlimited debate allowing for a more _____________________

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#95) informal atmosphere

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#96) Does the Senate have a speaker???

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#96) No

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#97) The ________________presides in the Senate but may not vote except to break a tie

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#97) Vice-President

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#98) The ________________
cannot take part in Senate debates because he is not an elected member

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#98) Vice-President

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#99) When can the Vice-President cast a vote in the Senate?

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#99) Only to break a tie

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#100) Who presides over the Senate in the Vice-President's absence?

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#100) President pro tem

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#101) means for the time being

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#101) president pro tem

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#102) The ____________main job is to steer the party's bills through the Senate.

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#102) majority leader

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#103) The _____________________ develops criticisms of the majority party's bills and tries to keep senators in the minority party working together.

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#103) minority leader

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#104) The Senate only as ____ Calendars

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#104) 2

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#105) ________________list all the bills the Senate will consider

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#105) Calendar of General Orders

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#106) _______________ schedules treaties and nominations in the Senate

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#106) Executive Calendar

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#107) Stall tactics that include continual talking, etc in order to prevent a vote

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#107) Filibuster

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#108) set a record for a filibuster

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#108) Senator Strom Thurmond A filibuster can go on for weeks or months

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#109) A filibuster can be stopped by _________ of the Senate votes for Cloture

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#109) 3/5

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#110) allows each senator only 1 hour on a bill under debate

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#110) cloture

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#111) a ____________ of a filibuster is often enough to delay or defeat of a bill

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#111) threat

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#112) ______________ controls the flow of legislative work

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#112) majority party

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#113) ________________ help ease the work load and are the key power centers in Congress

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#113) Committees

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#114) _________________ allows members of Congress to divide their owrk among many smaller groups

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#114) committee system

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#115) _______________ are the places in which lawmakers listen to supporters and opponenets of a bill

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#115) Committees

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#116) ___________________ help the public learn about key problems

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#116) public hearings and investigations

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#117) permanent groups set up to oversee bills that dealt with certain types of issues___________________

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#117) standing committee

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#118) _______________ has power to write the rules in Congress

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#118) majority party

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#119) specializes in a subcategory

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#119) subcommittee

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#120) ______________ committees can be reclassified as a permanent committee

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#120) select committee

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#121) This committee studies one specific issue and reports their findings

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#121) select committee

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#122) have members from both the house and senate

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#122) Joint committee

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#123) _____________ coordinate the work of two houses of Congress

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#123) joint committee

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#124) set up when both houses have passed different versions of the same bill

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#124) conference committee

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#125) members of the conference committee are called_________________

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#125) conferees

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#126) _____________ of standing committees are the most powerful members of Congress

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#126) chairpersons

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#127) ________________ decide when their committees will meet, which bills they will consider, and for how long

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#127) chairpersons

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#128) In the __________ the key committees are Rules, Ways and Means, anjd Appropriations.

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#128) House

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#129) In the ______ the most prestigious committees are Foreign Realtions, Finance, and Appropriations.

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#129) Senate

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#130) _________________ gave the member of the majority party with the longest uninterrupted service on a particular committee the leadership of that committee

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#130) seniority system

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#131) The unwriiten rule of _______________ traditionally has guided the selection of chairpersons

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#131) seniority

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#132) _______________ help Congress members with their work, communicate with voters, draft bills, write speeches, etc.

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#132) Staffers

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#133) ______________________ grew as lawmaking became more complex after the early 1900's.

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#133) Congressional staff

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#134) 2 types of congressional staff

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#134) personal and committee

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#135) ______________ members work directly for indivudual senators and representatives.

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#135) Personal Staff

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#136) ----------------------members work for the many House and Senate committees

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#136) Committee Staff

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#137) Called AA, and is a very important legislative aide.

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#137) Administrative Assistant

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#138) ______________ run's the lawmakers office, supervises the lawmaker';s schedule, and gives advice.

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#138) Administrative Assistant

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#139) ________________attends committee meeting when the lawmaker can not be present

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#139) LA, Legislative Assistant

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#140) _____________ makes sure the lawmaker is well informed about the many bills in which he or she must deal with

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#140) Legislative Assistant

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#141) ________________ handle many request in a lawmaker's state or congressioanl district

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#141) caseworkers

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#142) ______________- are largely responsible for the work involved in making laws

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#142) Committee staffers

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#143) He was_largely responsible for changes in tax laws__________________

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#143) Laurence Woodworth

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#144) one of the biggest libraries inthe world__________________

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#144) library of Congress

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#145) answers thousands of request for information. they will check out anything

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#145) CRS, Congressional Research Service

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#146) put together to study the budget proposals put forward by the president each year

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#146) CBO, Congressional Budget Office

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#147) Nations watchdog over the spending of funds Congress Appropriates

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#147) General Accounting Office, GAO

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#148) _____________review the financail management of government programs the Congress creates, collect government debts, settle claims, and provide legal service

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#148) General Accounting Office, GAO

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#149) _________________largest mutli purpose printing plant in the world

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#149) Governement Printing Office, GPO

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#150) ________________ daily record of all the bills introduced in both houses and speeches

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#150) Congressional Record