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| Question | Answer |
| bicameral | (of a legislative body) having two branches or chambers. |
| House of Representatives | The House of Representatives is one of the two houses of the United States Congress (a bicameral legislature). It is frequently referred to as The House. The other house is the Senate. |
| constituents | a member of a constituency. |
| gerrymander | manipulate the boundaries of (an electoral constituency) so as to favor one party or class. |
| Senate | The United States Senate is a legislative chamber in the bicameral legislature of the United States, and together with the U.S. House of Representatives makes up the U.S. Congress. |
| Speaker of the House | The Speaker of the House is the presiding officer of the United States House of Representatives. |
| President pro tempore | A president pro tempore is a constitutionally recognized officer of a legislative body who presides over the chamber in the absence of the normal presiding officer. |
| Party whips | Whips are a party's "enforcers", who typically offer inducements and threats party members to ensure that they vote according to the official party policy. |
| standing committee | In the United States Congress, standing committees are permanent legislative panels established by the United States House of Representatives and United States Senate rules. (House Rule X, Senate Rule XXV.) |
| select committee | a small legislative committee appointed for a special purpose. |
| Joint Committee | A Joint Committee is a term that is used to refer to a committee made up of members of both chambers of a bicameral legislature |
| seniority system | seniority rule. noun, U.S. Politics. 1. the custom in Congress providing for the assignment of a committee chairpersonship to that member of the majority party who has served on the committee the longest. |
| expressed powers | There are 27 total, but here is a slightly summarized version of the Congress' expressed powers: The Power to tax and spend for the defense and general welfare of the U.S. Borrow money. |
| implied powers | This "Necessary and Proper Clause" (sometimes also called the "Elastic Clause") grants Congress a set of so-called implied powers—that is, powers not explicitly named in the Constitution but assumed to exist due to their being necessary to implement the expressed powers that are named in Article I. |
| elastic clause | elastic clause. noun. 1. a statement in the U.S. Constitution (Article I, Section 8) granting Congress the power to pass all laws necessary and proper for carrying out the enumerated list of powers. |
| impeach | call into question the integrity or validity of (a practice). |
| bills of attainder | A bill of attainder (also known as an act of attainder or writ of attainder or bill of pains and penalties) is an act of a legislature declaring a person or group of persons guilty of some crime and punishing them without a trial. |
| ex post facto laws | An ex post facto law (Latin for "from after the action" or "after the facts") is a law that retroactively changes the legal consequences (or status) of actions that were committed, or relationships that existed, before the enactment of the law. |
| US Representative Qualifications | Article I, Section 2 of the Constitution sets three qualifications for representatives. Each representative must: (1) be at least twenty-five years old; (2) have been a citizen of the United States for the past seven years; and (3) be (at the time of the election) an inhabitant of the state they represent. |
| franking privilege | The congressional franking privilege, which dates from 1775, allows Members of Congress to transmit mail matter under their signature without postage. Congress, through legislative branch appropriations, reimburses the U.S. Postal Service for the franked mail it handles. |
| pork barrel projects | Pork barrel is a metaphor for the appropriation of government spending for localized projects secured solely or primarily to bring money to a representative's district. The usage originated in American English. |
| US Senator Qualifications | The Constitution sets three qualifications for service in the U.S. Senate: age (at least thirty years of age); U.S. citizenship (at least nine years); and residency in the state a senator represents at time of election. |
| filibuster | an action such as a prolonged speech that obstructs progress in a legislative assembly while not technically contravening the required procedures. |
| cloture | is a motion or process in parliamentary procedure aimed at bringing debate to a quick end. It is also called closure or, informally, a guillotine. The cloture procedure originated in the French National Assembly, from which the name is taken. |
| veto | a constitutional right to reject a decision or proposal made by a law-making body. |
| pocket veto | A pocket veto is a legislative maneuver that allows a president or other official with veto power to exercise that power over a bill by taking no action (instead of affirmatively vetoing it). |
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