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25 Cards in this Set
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Revenue bills must originate here.
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House of Representatives
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Action of charging the president, vice president, and other "civil officers" with high crimes and misdemeanors.
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Impeachment
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Holds the most important leadership position in the House.
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Speaker of the House
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They inform members when important bills will come up for vote, do nosecounts for the leadership, and pressure members to support the leadership.
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Party whips
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Is usually the most senior member in the majority party and his/her job is largely ceremonial.
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president pro tempore
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The most important type of committees which handle bills in different policy areas.
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Standing committees
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Groupings of members of Congress sharing the same interests or points of view.
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Caucuses
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Sets limit on debates and forbids amendments from the floor.
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Closed rule
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Formed for specific purposes and are usually temporary.
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Select committees
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Permits amendments and often has less strict time limits, allowing for input from other members of the committee.
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Open rule
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Court case in which the Court ordered that districts be drawn so that one person's vote would be as equal as another; "one man one vote".
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Wesberry v. Sanders
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Type of resolution that comes from both houses, and often settles housekeeping and procedural matters affecting both houses.
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Concurrent resolution
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Practice of talking a bill to death.
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Filibuster
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Type of resolution that requires approval of both houses and the signature of the president.
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Joint resolution
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With 3/5 vote of the Senate, this can stop a filibuster.
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Cloture
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Type of resolution that is passed by either the House of the Senate, and usually establishes rules, regulations, or practices that do not have the force of a law.
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Simple resolution
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Practice of drawing lines in districts to give one political party an advantage over the other one.
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Gerrymandering
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Typical characteristics of members of Congress.
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Middle-aged, white, Prostestant males
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Action a bill receives when it is changed or rewritten and returned to the full committee.
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Mark up
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In order to promote checks and balances, the Congress was set up to have two houses or be this.
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Bicameral
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Exclusive powers of the House of Representatives.
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Revenue bills and impeachment power
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The president of the Senate.
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The Vice President
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Exclusive powers of the Senate.
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Major presidential appointments and treaties with other nations
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Ability of sending incumbents free mailings.
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Franking privilege
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Action done by the president of not signing a bill when he receives it within ten days of the adjournment of the congressional session.
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Pocket veto
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