Unit 2: CONGRESS APGOV HMSA

Efforts by Congress to ensure that the executive branch

are acting in accordance with Congressional Goals.

• Politico Role

• Incumbency

• Lame Duck Period

• Oversight

Legislation that directs specific funds to projects within districts or states.

• Oversight

• Pork barrel spending

• Logrolling

• Apportionment

Trading of votes on legislation by members of Congress to get their earmarks passed into legislation.

• Logrolling

• Constituency

• Oversight

• Redistricting

A body of voters in a given area who elect a representative or senator.

• Incumbency

• Whip

• Constituency

• Committee chair

The process of determining the number of representatives for each state using census data.

• Apportionment

• Whip

• Hold

• Cloture

States' redrawing of boundaries of electoral districts following each census.

• Delegate role

• Trustee role

• Redistricting

• Gridlock

The intentional use of redistricting to benefit a specific interest or group of voters.

• Gerrymandering

• Lame duck period

• Hold

• Veto

Drawing of district boundaries into strange shapes to benefit a political party.

• Trustee role

• Gridlock

• Partisan gerrymandering

• Senate majority leader

A district in which voters of a minority ethnicity constitute an electoral majority within that electoral district.

• Speaker of the House

• Majority- minority district

• Malapportionment

• Incumbency

The uneven distribution of the population among legislative districts.

• Discharge petition

• Delegate role

• Gridlock

• Malapportionment