Wilson Chapter 11 Unit 4a Vocab AP GOV
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government, politics, Congress
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Franking Privilege | benefit allowing members of Congress to mail letters and other materials postage-free |
| Unicameral | one-house legislature |
| Bicameral | consisting of two chambers |
| Descriptive Representation | the idea that an elected body should mirror demographically the population it represents |
| Substantive Representation | the ability of a legislator to represent the agenda or interests of a group to which he or she does not personally belong |
| Sophmore Surge | representatives often win their second term |
| Public Bill | a legislative bill that deals with matters of general concern |
| Private Bill | a bill dealing with individual people or places |
| Simple Resolution | a decision that concerns only the Senate or the House |
| Term Limits | laws that limit the number of terms elected officials can serve |
| Henry Clay | United States politician responsible for the Missouri Compromise between free and slave states |
| Marginal Districts | typically by less than 55 percent of the vote |
| Safe Districts | districts in which incumbents win by margins of 55% or more |
| Party Caucus | a meeting of the members of a party in a legislative chamber to select party leaders and to develop party policy. Called a conference by the republicans |
| Rules Committee | Determines the rules of debate for bills in the House of Representatives |
| Filibuster | a tactic for delaying or obstructing legislation by making long speeches |
| 17th Amendment | Direct election of senators |
| Rule 22 | allows for unlimited debate unless at least sixty senators agree to motion to cut if off |
| Cloture | a rule for limiting or ending debate in a deliberative body |
| Malapportionment | Drawing the boundaries of legislative districts so that they are unequal in population. |
| Gerrymandering | the drawing of electoral district lines to the advantage of a party or group |
| "one man, one vote" | election distircts would have to be redrawn to provide equal representation for all of state's citizens |
| Joint Committee | legislative committee composed of members of both houses |
| Conference Committee | works out a compromise between differing House-Senate versions of a bill |
| Seniority System | Appointing people to jobs based on years of service. |
| CRS | Congressional Research Service-researches |
| GAO | General Accounting Office-Audits Executive money spent |
| CBO | Congressional Budget Office - congress' check on the budget |
| Abscam | FBI sting operation that caught congressmen accepting bribes |
| logrolling | An agreement by two or more lawmakers to support each other's bills |
| pork-barrel | Government projects that primarily benefit the district or state |
| christmas tree bill | a bill with many riders |
| committee of the whole | allows quorum of 100 rather than 218 |
| rider | a clause that is appended to a legislative bill |
| open rule | House Rules Committee procedure that allows amendments to a bill |
| closed rule | rule that forbids members of Congress to offer amendments to a bill from the floor |
| quorum | a gathering of the minimal number of members of an organization to conduct business |
| discharge petition | a motion to force a bill to the House floor that has been bottled up in committee |
| party whip | a legislator appointed by the party to enforce discipline |
| President Pro Tempore | Officer of the Senate selected by the majority party to act as chair in the absence of the vice president |
| caucus | a closed political meeting |
| blue dog democrats | Conservative Democrats in Congress |
| attitudinal theory | Members of Congress vote based on the need to vote based on their own beliefs |
| concurrent resolution | passed by both houses of Congress and is not signed by the president and is not a law |
| edmund burke | A conservative leader who was deeply troubled by the aroused spirit of reform. In 1790, he published Reforms on The Revolution in France |
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