Government Ch 7
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FlintyDesert01 on January 30, 2012
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17 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Private Bill | a bill dealing with individual people or places |
| Public Bill | a bill dealing with general matters and applying to the entire nation |
| Simple Resolution | a statement adopted to cover matters affecting only one house of Congress |
| Rider | a provision included in a bill on a subject other than the one covered in the bill |
| Hearing | A session at which a committee listens to testimony from people interested in the bill |
| Veto | rejection of a bill |
| Pocket Veto | when a president kills a bill passed during the last 10 days Congress is in session by simply refusing to act on it. |
| Tax | The money that people and businesses pay to support the activities of the government |
| Closed Rule | rule that forbids members of congress to offer amendments to a bill from the floor |
| Appropriation | Approval of government spending |
| Authorization Bill | a bill that sets up a federal program and specifies how much money may be appropriated for the program |
| Entitlement | a required government expenditure that continues from one year to the next |
| Lobbyist | Interest group representative |
| Lobbying | direct contact made by a lobbyist in order to persuade government officials to support the policies their interest group favors |
| Casework | the work that a lawmaker does to help constituents with problems |
| Pork-barrel Legislation | laws passed by Congress that appropriate money for local federal projects |
| Logrolling | An agreement by two or more lawmakers to support each other's bills |
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