PSCI 2
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- The House of Representatives tends to be
- more policy specialized and reactionary
- The Senate tends to be
- more policy generalized and deliberative
- representatives in the House
- 435
- type of legislation that specifies a project to be funded within a particular district.
- “pork barrelâ€
- use a hometown orientation in hopes of presenting themselves in a positive manner to their constituency
- Representatives
- us a hometown orientation in hopes of presenting themselves in a positive manner to their constituency
- epresentatives
- the process where congressional seats are “passed outâ€
- Apportionment
- (freshmen-1st time elected)
- apprentices
- (veterans)
- incumbent
- vote of threefifths of the _____ is required to end a filibuster
- senate
- two presidents have been impeached...
- Clinton and Johnson none REMOVED
- the residents in the area from which an official is elected
- Constituency
- the apportionment of citizens into districts
- Redistricting
- Reapportionment (attempts to change the way voting districts are delineated) issues present justiciable questions, thus enabling federal courts to intervene in and to decide reapportionment cases. The defendants unsuccessfully argued that reapportionme
- Baker v. Carr (1962)
- ordered the states to clean up their acts & stop discriminating against minorities prior to these cases the state legislation did not apportion equally among districts
- Wesberry v. Sanders (1964)
- (trips which members take which are free or low cost)
- Junkets
- Senate Minority Leader=
- Mitch McConnell
- require 2/3 vote, more severe- happens less frequently, takes away someone’s job
- Expulsion