Govt Unit 4
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- How many serve in the House of Reps?
- 150
- How many serve in the Senate
- 31
- Length of term for House of Reps
- 2 years
- Length of term for Senate
- 4 years
- Length of a regular session
- 40 days
- Only the ____ can call a special session
- governor
- The Governor is able to dictate the ____ of a special session
- agenda
- Tx House Insights Vid - what is the concern voiced by Lee at the beginning of ch1 (who introduces legislation)
- The executive branch does alot that the legislative branch is supposed to - this means that the rule enforcers are also making the rules
- How does Rep Eissler describe voting patterns
- Inversely proportional to the vote's amount of influence on the voter's daily life
- How many bills are filed in each full session of the Tx legislature?
- 6,000
- How many bills become law?
- 1/5 (1200 of 6000)
- How many laws passed are trying to correct laws passed previously?
- 1/3
- What are the 2 sources of power that the Speaker of the House and Lt. Gov have?
- Assigning bills to committees, and appointing chairpersons and committee members
- If a governor ignores a bill what happens to it?
- It becomes a law anyways
- What people influence the decisions of legislators? (7 of them)
- Lobbyists, Staff Members, Fellow Legislators, Constituents, Speaker, Lt. Gov, Governor
- What does partisan refer to?
- People associated with a political party
- What trumps partisan influencers in the Tx Legislature?
- Representing your district
- What monthly allowance is given to state representatives for staff support and technical resources?
- 10k/mo.
- What is Jacksonian democratic theory?
- elect as many government officials to the shortest terms possible
- Texas Plural executive
- Means getting an executive without all his "baggage"/relatives
- Constitutional requirements of a governor?
- 30 yrs old, 5 yr resident, US citizen
- Why is the Tx Governor weaker than most governors?
- Tenure (no term limit), Appointments (only 6 major apptmts), Budget (very little LBB), Veto (line-item veto)
- Who is thought to hold the most influential office in Tx?
- Lt. Gov
- Oversees the regulation of state lands
- Land Commissioner
- Chief legal council for state
- Attorney General
- Has regulatory oversight for oil and gas production
- Railroad Commission
- An executive agent, plays an important legislative role as pres of the Senate, Replaces Gov when out of state
- Lieutenant Governor
- promotes agriculture and related products produced in Texas and protects texas citizens as consumers of Tx Agricultural procuds
- Agriculture Commissioner
- Chief Fiscal and revenue forecaster
- Comptroller of Public Accounts
- What are problems in the Texas Executive?
- Executive agencies, interest groups, legislative committees
- T/F THe power of the US pres over the fed executive is more than the power of the Tx gov
- TRUE
- Appellate Jurisdiction
- The power of a court to review decisions and change outcomes of decisions of lower courts
- Original jurisdiction
- The right to hear a case for the first time
- Supreme Court
- Final Appellate civil & juvenile
- Court of Criminal Appeals
- Final Appellate criminal
- Court of Appeals
- Intermediate appellate
- District Courts
- Original
- County Level Courts
- Original and Appellate
- Municipal Court/Justice of the Peace Courts
- Original?