AP Congress Review

Senate bills are subject to unlimited debate unless 3/5 of the Senate (60 Senators) votes for _________ to stop it

• Filibuster

• Ridership

• Veto

• Cloture

When a version of a bill is passed in the House and different version is passed in the Senate, it goes to...

• The Majority Leader
• Servicing
• The President
• Conference Committee

When a member of Congress gets a project passed that will bring jobs or other benefits to her district/state, it's called...

• Riding
• Pork-Barrel Spending
• Servicing
• Gerrymandering

A tactic to block legislation that involves one or more Senators holding the floor indefinitely is called...

• Filibustering
• Riding
• Logrolling
• Hot-Airing

The reallocation of seats in the House of Representatives (completed after each census).

• Reunited

• Gerrymandering

• None of these

• Reapportionment

Gerrymandering is

• legislation passed in southern states to limit African American participation in elections.
• the drawing of legislative district boundary lines to give the dominant party an advantage.
• known to give the minority party an electoral advantage at the expense of the dominant party.
• a process that attempts to limit debate on a bill in the Senate.

Members of Congress are granted generous franking privileges that

• permit them to mail letters to their constituents for free.
• allow them to charge items to a special expense account.
• allow members unlimited phone calls to their district without charge.
• permit them to receive four, round-trip airfares to their district.

The president of the Senate is

• the leader of the majority party in the Senate.
• the senator with the most seniority, regardless of party.
• the fourth person in line to succeed the president.
• the vice president of the United States.

In order for a treaty to go into effect, it must be

• signed by the members of the UN Security Council.
• approved by 3/4 of the state legislatures.
• passed by a Supreme Court majority.
• approved by a 2/3 vote in the Senate.

_{The trading of votes between legislators so that each legislator gets what s/he wants.}

• Logrolling
• Pork-barrelling
• Cloture
• Filibustering