POLS 2
Terms
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- elastic clause
- necessary and proper
- follow-up on a proposals fate once it has been approved by the full chamber
- after the fact authority
- joint committee created to work out a compromise for house and senate versions of a bill
- conference committee
- surveillance of activities of exec agencies
- oversight
- status ranking by length of continuous service on a congressional commmittee
- seniority
- committee's power to decide if a change in policy will be considered for a
- gatekeeping authority
- power to bring a proposal to the full legislature
- proposal power
- committee that considers legislation within its subject area
- Standing com
- basic unit of deliberation in the House and Senate
- Standing com
- closed meeting of political or legislative group to select candidates, plan strategy, or make decisions regarding legis. matters
- Party caucus
- Speaker is elected in congress by what kind of vote?
- straight party vote?
- subordinate in heirarchy to the speaker
- Majority leader
- elected leader of party holding less than a majority of the seats in the house or senate.
- Minority leader
- how many senators do we have?
- 100
- how many reps do we have in USA?
- 235
- The Apportionment of voters in districts in such a way as to give unfair advantage to a party
- Gerrymandering
- Congressmens' efforts to gain trust and support of constituents by providing them with personal service
- Casework
- Form of patrogage where representatives seek to capture federal projects for their own districts.
- pork barrel legislation
- direct services and benefits that members provide for their districs
- patrogage
- appropriations made by legislative bodies for local projects that are often notneeded but are created so that local reps can carry their home district in the next election
- pork barrel legislation
- holding office for which one is running
- incumbency
- legislature with members that serve full time for multiple terms
- professional legislature
- reps are accountable to their constituents if they fail to represent them properly.
- agency representation
- rep who votes based on what he thinks is best for his constituency
- trustee
- rep who votes based on preferences of his constituency
- delegate
- district comprising the area from which an official is elected
- constituency
- ________ is necessary for effective congressional representation
- power
- 2 most important power in any gov't are the powers of _____ and _____, and ______ has these 2 powers
- force and money, congress
- what accounts for the toleration of agency loss?
- transaction costs
- the diff. bt/w what a principal wants an agent to do and the agent's actual performance
- agency loss
- How many terms can committee and subcommittee heads serve for?
- 3
- Minimum age of member for a US House rep
- 25
- Minimum age of member for a US senate rep
- 30
- US House rep's required length of US citizenship:
- 7
- US Senate member's required length of US citizenship:
- 9
- # of House reps per state:
- 1 per 630,000
- # of Senate members per state:
- 2
- US Senate term length:
- 6
- US House term length:
- 2
- What allows Congress members to claim credit for fed'lly granted resources
- pork barrel legislation
- Agencies that enhance Congress's capacity to oersee administrative agencies and to evaluate presid'l programs and proposals
- staff agencies
- There are how many staff agencis?
- 3
- the follwoing are types of what? Congressional Budget Office, General Accounting Office, and Congressional Research Service
- staff agencies
- Legislative Service Organizations (LSO)is the formal name of what?
- caucuses
- groups of senators or reps who share certain interests, opinions, or social characteristics
- caucuses
- An association of members of congress based on party interest, or social group such as gender or race is a ________.
- caucus
- House Rules Com. provision prohibiting the introduction of amedments during debate.
- closed rule
- Rules com provision permitting floor debate and addition of new amendments to a bill:
- Open rule
- Rules com provision where there is a listening of specific amendments that can be voted upon.
- Modified rule
- Senator's can use this right to precent axn of a piece of legislation they oppose. A senator takes the floor for an unlimited time to speak
- filibuster
- how does a filibuster end/ be overridden
- 3/5 cloture vote of Senate
- Rule allowing a mojority of 2/3 or 3/5 of the members in a legislative body to set a time limit on a debate over a given bill.
- Cloture
- how is a veto overridden
- 2/3 vote in each house of congress
- veto by president by taking no action on it when congress has adjourned
- pocket veto
- tendency of congress to spread the benefits of a policy oover a wide range of member's districts
- distributive tendency
- a vote in which each legislator's yes or no is recorded
- roll-call vote
- vote where at least half of one party takes a particular posish, and at least half of the other party takes an opposing position.
- party vote
- communication network in each house of Congress
- whip system
- these guys take polls of the membership to learn their intentions on specific bills
- whips
- agreements made bt/w legislatures with nothing in common, but they desire to exchange support
- logrolling
- agreement bt/w president and another country that has the force ofa treaty but doesn't requre the Senates "advice and consent"
- exec agreement