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Congress - AP GOV CHAPTER 12
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- 1Advertising & VisibilityGetting your name out and known though ads and events
- 2Bicameral legislationA lawmaking body made up of two chambers or parts
- 3BillA proposal for a law
- 4Campaign spendingMoney spent to try to get someone elected
- 5CaseworkSocial work directly concerned with individuals, especially that involving a study of a person's family history and personal circumstances
- 6CaucusA meeting of the members of a legislative body who are members of a particular political party, to select candidates or decide policy
- 7ClotureA procedure for ending a debate and taking a vote
- 8CoattailsA person currently in office
- 9Committee chairsThe heads of the committees
- 10Conference committeeA committee appointed to resolve disagreements on a particular bill
- 11“Credit claiming”Servicing the constituency through casework and pork barrel
- 12Delegate TheoryLegislators should adhere to the will of their constituents
- 13Descriptive Representationthe tendency of elected legislators to advocate on behalf of certain groups
- 14“Earmarked” fundsGovernment funds that are allocated by a legislator for a particular pet project, often without proper review
- 15FilibusterAn action such as a prolonged speech that obstructs progress in a legislative assembly while not technically contravening the required procedures
- 16Closed Rule/Open Rule- A procedural maneuver that prohibits any amendments to bills up for a vote on the House floor
- A set of regulations for debate on the floor of the House of Representatives which permits general debate and allows members to offer amendments. - 17HearingsAn opportunity to state one's case
- 18House Rules CommitteeIn charge of determining under what rule other bills will come to the floor
- 19IncumbentsThe holder of an office or post
- 20Joint CommitteesA committee made up of members of both chambers of a bicameral legislature
- 21Legislative oversightCongress' monitoring of the bureaucracy and its administration of policy, performed mainly though hearings
- 22Majority leaderThe head of the majority party in a legislative body
- 23“Marked-up” billA bill is said to be marked up when a U.S. congressional committee or state legislative session debates, amends, and rewrites it
- 24Minority leaderThe head of the minority party
- 25Political CueA signal, frequently provided by interest groups, that tells a politician what values are at stake in an issue and how that issue fits into his or her own set of political beliefs
- 26Select CommitteesA small legislative committee appointed for a special purpose
- 27Seniority systemThe practice of granting privileges to members of Congress who have served the longest
- 28Speaker of the HouseThe leader of the House of Representatives, 2nd in line behind the VP to become president
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