Legislative Branch Unit 3 Vocab

States with slow growth or a population decrease can lose representatives, while states with strong population growth can gain seats.

States drawing district boundaries to give one political party an electoral advantage

As a whole or statewide.

A vote of formal disapproval of a members actions.

The people politicians have been elected to represent.

an event held before an election at which members of a political party convention, at which they’ll also vote to nominate a candidate.

When sections of a bill will be sent to two or more committees.

The minumum number of members needed for official legislative action.

To preside over the senate in the absence of the vice president

Talking continuously, not allowing other senators to take action or pass a certain bill.

Any major bill can pass the senate only if it can get the 60 votes needed to end a filibuster

Permanent groups to oversee bills that deal with certain kinds of issues

Each subcommittee specializes in a subcategory of its standing committee's responsibility.

a temporary committee formed to study one specific issue and to report its findings to the House or Senate

a committee that consists of members from both the House and Senate, formed to act as a study group that reports back to the House and Senate on a topic or bill

A temporary committee that is set up when the house and senate have passed different versions of a bill

A system that gives the member of the majority party with the longest uninterupted service on a particular committee the leadership of that committee

A proposed law for raising money

The power to review exectutive branch activities on an ongoing basis.

When one party controls the white house and the other controls the house and senate.

The presidents refusal to spend money congress has voted to fund a program

Power of an exectutive to reject one or more items in a bill without vetoing the enitre bill

When the president refuses to act on a bill passed during the last 10 days

Keeps the gov open and operating under previous levels of appropriations

Part of funding a bill that will go toward a certain purpose

Social programs that entitle individuals to a certain program or monetary benefits

People who share common goals and organize to influence gov and policy

A paid representative of an interest group who contacts gov officials on behalf of these interests groups.

Laws passed by congress to appropriate money for local fed projects.

When two or more lawmakers agree to support each other's bills.