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The Legislative Branch
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- 1Allocative RepresentationRepresentatives trying to gain benefits for their district rather than the whole country
- 2ApportionmentAllocating congressional seats to districts
- 3Article 1, Section 7Established the legilative process for a bill to become law
- 4Article 1, Section 8Established Enumerated Powers
- 5Article 1, Section 9Established Emoluments Clause
- 6Attitudinal ViewRepresentatives voting according to their own beliefs
- 7Bicameral (Legislature)Lawmaking body composed of two houses.
- 8BillA proposed law
- 9CaseworkWhen a member of congress uses their power to help their constituents
- 10CensusProcess of counting the people residing in the country every ten years; used to allocated house seats
- 11Closed RuleHouse debate rule decided by the House Committee on Rules, which states that no additional amendments can be voted on.
- 12ClotureFormal vote to end a filibuster and advance to a vote.
- 13Coattail LossTendency for a party to lose members when their president is active during mid-terms
- 14Committee of the WholeHouse procedure to reduce quorum to 100 members and expedite a bill
- 15Compensation and Fringe BenefitsBenefits received by a congress person
- 16Concurrent ResolutionResolution used to settle procedural matters on both houses.
- 17Conference CommitteesCommittees formed to iron out differences between different versions of the same bill passed by both houses.
- 18CongressFederal Lawmaking body
- 19Congressional Budget Act of 1974Moved the fiscal year, created budget committees and established several agencies to aid the budget making process
- 20Congressional Budget OfficeEstablished by the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to advise congress on the budget
- 21Congressional OversightCongress assuring that agencies are acting in ways they are intended to.
- 22Congressional ReviewAbility for congress to nullify actions or regulations made by agencies by a joint resolution.
- 23ConstituentsThose that are represented
- 24DelegateTheory of representation where a representative is bound to represent the views of their constituents
- 25Ex post factoAfter the fact laws, where someone might be punished for doing something before it was unlawful; unconstitutional
- 26Enumerated PowersPowers assigned to congress by Article 1, section 8
- 27Elastic ClauseClause that allows congress to make laws to help them accomplish their enumerated powers, as long as they are necessary and proper
- 28Qualifications and TermsThe necessary characteristics needed to occupy an elected office and the amount of time one can occupy in that office
- 29FilibusterSenatorial informal procedure to block the voting on a bill via nonstop speech
- 30FramersThose that designed the constitution
- 31Franking PrivilegeCongressional Representatives ability to send mail for free by using their signature
- 32GerrymanderingWhen a congressional district is arranged in a bias way to favor a party, or the incumbents
- 33Hebeas CorpusRule of Law; can be suspended in times of extreme national crisis
- 34HoldWhen a senator is asked to be informed about a certain bill before introduced to the floor
- 35House Rule CommitteeCommittee establishes the rule of the bills that enter the floot
- 36IdeologyThe political set of beliefs that guide a person through the political climate
- 37ImpeachmentAbility for the house to impeach a president and set a trial in congress
- 38Implied PowersPowers not specified in the constitution but implied in the elastic clause
- 39Incumbency AdvantageThe statistical low turnover of those already occupying a political office
- 40Joint CommitteesCommittees with members of both houses created to sway public attention towards an issue
- 41Joint ResolutionA resolution passed by both Houses
- 42Legislative AgendaThe schedule by which bills are introduced into the floor
- 43LogrollingPoliticians trading votes and support for a bill.
- 44Majority LeaderLeader of the party with the most members in a given house
- 45Majority-minority districtDistrict where the majority has more representation than the majority
- 46Marginal DistrictsThose districts within a 5% margin of flipping
- 47Mark UpWhen a congressional committee or congress person amends a piece of legislation
- 48Midterm LossTrend for the presidential party to lose seats in congress during midterms
- 49Minority LeaderThe leader of the second largest party in a given chamber of congress
- 50National LawmakingWhen policy is created to solve national issues
- 51NormsThe rules and behavior in congress, it informally sets the extents of congress
- 52Open RuleWhen a bill goes through the House floor and adding amendments is allowed.
- 53Organizational ViewRepresentatives voting along party lines; almost always true
- 54OverrideWhen congress overturns an executive veto with 2/3rds in both houses
- 55Partisan GerrymanderingRearranging congressional districts to favor a particular party
- 56Party PolarizationThe trend for people to align along party lines, and increasingly dislike the other parties more
- 57PigeonholeWhen a bill dies in committee; most bills die in committee
- 58Pocket VetoThe president doesn't sign the bill and congress adjourns; This is since congress can't override the veto if they are not in session
- 59Policy EntrepreneurshipPoliticians trading political capital for votes
- 60Pork Barrel SpendingCongressional representatives trying to fund government programs in their states rather than solving nationwide problems
- 61President of the SenateVice president; presides over senate sessions and is able to break ties
- 62President Pro TemporeSenator who presides over the senate when the Vice president is absent; Usually given to the oldest member of the Senate
- 63Pro-Incumbent GerrymanderingWhen districts are arranged so that the incumbents engage into non-competitive races; this is partly why the turnover rate is so low
- 64Programmatic RequestsFederal funding given to competing states to build specific programs
- 65QuorumMinimum number of members to officiate a session of congress; during filibusters all members are to be present
- 66Racial Gerrymanderingrearranging districts using race as a significant factor to disenfranchise a racial group; unconstitutional
- 67ReappointmentUsing census data to assign congressional seats to state which have experience population changes
- 68ReconciliationUsing 51% votes to pass a funding related bill
- 69rRedrawing congressional districts to adjust for more or less seats awarded to the state
- 70Representational ViewRepresentation theory that states that representatives are to vote along the popular demands of their constituents; A problem with this theory is that many people don't have opinions on every issue
- 71RepresentativesThose that are voted into office to represent the interest of the people in a republic
- 72ResolutionsLegislation passed to establish new congressional norms
- 73Restrictive RuleHouse restrictions of the kind of amendments that can be made when debating a bill
- 74RidersAmendments added to a bill; usually unrelated to the original bill
- 75Roll-call VoteAttendance for members of Congress
- 76Rules CommitteesCommittee enforcing and establishing rules regarding voting on a bill and when they come to a vote
- 77Safe DistrictsDistricts where the winner got 55% of the vote; most districts are safe
- 78Select CommitteesCommittees chosen to research a specific topic i.e. Benghazi
- 79SenatorsElected members that represent the states in the senate (2 per state); They are needed for laws to pass
- 80Seniority RuleA member of congress is given a position given their seniority; older people get the important positions
- 81Sequential ReferralWhen the speaker sends a bill to a second committee after the first one is done acting; It delays the path the bill takes
- 8217th amendmentAllowed for senators to be chosen via popular vote rather than state house ruling
- 83Simple ResolutionOpinion without the force of a law; Used to solve procedural matters
- 84Speaker of the HouseMost powerful member of congress; He overlooks house proceeding, assigns committee chairs, set voting agenda, chooses which committee a bill should go through
- 85Standing CommitteePermanent congressional committees on issues of importance; Are well established and its members have interests on the area
- 86Strategic PoliticiansCandidates who heavily analyze their decision such as the district they should run in
- 87Symbolic RepresentationWhen members of congress try to stand for American ideals and constituents beliefs
- 8827th AmendmentNo law varying the compensation for the services of the Senators and Representatives shall take effect, until an election of Representatives shall have intervened.
- 89UnicameralLegislative body with only one house
- 90VetoPresidential power to block legislation
- 91Voice VoteWhen members of congress vote by shouting Yea or Nay
- 92WhipPolitical role in charge with pulling members to vote along party lines
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