govt. unit 5 vocab review

makes sure that laws passed are in the party’s best interest and schedules bills

• bill

• cloture

• majority leader

• speaker of the house

the process for drawing new boundaries for legislative districts

• redistricting

• reappointment

• cloture

• engrossed

the redistribution of seats in the House of Representatives based on the census

• joint committee

• cloture

• engrossed

• reappointment

the minimum number of members legally needed to conduct business

• five

• filibuster

• quorum

• constituents

the day-to-day leader of the Senate when the Vice President is not there

• president pro tempore

• majoirty leader

• speaker of the house

• president

the president can reject a bill by not signing it when Congress is not in session

• engrossed

• pocket veto

• petition

• gerrymandering

special committees formed from members of both chambers to address broad issues that affect both chambers

• conference committee

• joint committee

• reappointment

• cloture

formally charging someone of the executive and judicial branches with wrongdoing and bringing them to trial

• impeachment

• constituents

• arresting

• quorum

the drawing of district boundaries for political advantage

• bill

• cloture

• gerrymandering

• reappointment

a tactic used in the Senate to prolong and stall a bill from coming to a vote; can only be broken with a cloture

• cloture

• filibuster

• quorum

• redistricting