Unit V Test 1 Set 2

Veto power, command armed forces, pardoning power, appointment powers, make treaties, convene Congress

• Formal Powers of the President
• Informal Powers of the President
• Powers of the Senate
• discharge petition

Bully pulpit, make executive agreements, issue executive orders, issue signing statements, create & use bureaucracy, personality and leadership, and make legislative proposals.

• Informal Powers of the President
• Powers of the Senate
• discharge petition
• standing committee

confirm presidential appointments by a majority vote, ratify (approve) treaties made by the president by a 2/3rds vote (67 senators), hold impeachment trial to remove a president

• Powers of the Senate
• discharge petition
• standing committee
• House Ways and Means Committee

If signed by majority of the House of Representatives' members, will pry a bill from committee and bring it to the floor for consideration.

• discharge petition
• standing committee
• House Ways and Means Committee
• partisan

A permanent committee established in a legislature, usually focusing on a policy area

• standing committee
• House Ways and Means Committee
• joint committee

• conference committee

The House of Representatives committee that, along with the Senate Finance Committee, writes the tax codes, subject to the approval of Congress as a whole.

• House Ways and Means Committee
• House Un-American Activities Committee

• conference committee
• Joint committee

Devoted to or biased in support of a party, group, or cause

• partisan
• conference committee
• Majority Opinion
• dissenting opinion

Committee appointed by the presiding officers of each chamber to adjust differences on a particular bill passed by each in different form.

• conference committee
• select committee

• standing committee

• Judiciary Committee

a statement that presents the views of the majority of supreme court justices regarding a case

• Majority Opinion
• dissenting opinion
• per curiam opinion
• Commerce Clause

A statement written by a justice who disagrees with the majority opinion, presenting his or her opinion

• dissenting opinion
• per curiam opinion
• majority opinion

• concurring opinion