FREE HISTORY AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT AP GOV

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FREE HISTORY AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT AP GOV

VOCAB 12 EXAM QUESTIONS

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Question 1: select committees

Answer:

congressional committees appointed for a specific purpose, such as the watergate investigation

Question 2: whips

Answer:

party leaders who work with the majority leader or minority leader to count votes beforehand and lean on waverers whose votes are crucial to a bill favored by the party

Question 3: joint committees

Answer:

congressional committees on a few subject-matter areas with membership drawn from both houses

Question 4: bill

Answer:

a proposed law, drafted in precise, legal language.

Question 5: caucus

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a group of members of congress sharing some interest or characteristic

Question 6: standing committees

Answer:

separate subject-matter committees in each house of congress that handle bills in different policy areas

Question 7: pork barrel

Answer:

the mighty list of federal projects, grants, and contracts available to cities, businesses, colleges, and institutions in the district of a member of congress

Question 8: house rules committee

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an institution unique to the house of representatives that reviews all bills coming from a house committee before they go to the full house

Question 9: committee chairs

Answer:

the most important influencers of the congressional agenda

Question 10: minority leader

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the principal leader of the minority party in the house of representatives or in the senate

Question 11: incumbents

Answer:

those already holding office

Question 12: majority leader

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the principal partisan ally of the speaker of the house or the party's wheel horse in the senate

Question 13: casework

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activities of members of congress that help constituents as individuals; cutting through bureaucratic red tape to get people what they think they have a right to get

Question 14: conference committees

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congressional committees formed when the senate and the house pass a particular bill in different forms

Question 15: filibuster

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a strategy unique to the senate whereby opponents of a piece of legislation try to talk it to death, based on the tradition of unlimited debate

Question 16: legislative oversight

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congress's monitoring of the bureaucracy and its administration of policy, performed mainly through hearings

Question 17: bicameral legislature

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a legilature divided into two houses

Question 18: seniority system

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a simple rule for picking committee chairs, in effect until the 1970s

Question 19: speaker of the house

Answer:

an office mandated by the constitution and is chosen in practice by the majority party, has both formal and informal powers, and is second in line to succeed to the presidency should that office become vacant