Congress (Section 4.1 - 4.6) GW Paper Part I

Spending which is intended to benefit constituents of a politician in return for their political support, either in the form of campaign contributions or votes.

• Logrolling

• Pork Barrel Spending

• Filibuster

• Malapportionment

Logrolling is the process by which politicians trade support for one issue or piece of legislation in exchange for another politician's support, especially by means of legislative votes

• Logrolling

• Pork Barrel Spending

• Hold

• Whip

Bodies of voters in an area who elect a representative or senator

• Constituency

• Incumbency

• Speakers

• Whip

The process of determing the number of representatives for each state using census data, with one seat in the House no matter how small its population.

• Logrolling

• Pork Barrel Spending

• Apportionment

• Trustee Role

Following each census, states redraw the boundaries of the electoral districts.

• Redistricting

• Partisan Gerrmandering

• Cloture

• Committee Chair

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

• Hold

• Minority leader

• Redistricting

• Gerrymandering

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

• Partisan Gerrymandering

• Gerrymandering

• Redistricting

• Hold

The population is distributed in uneven numbers between legislative district - is unconstitutional because it violates the Fourteenth Amendment

• Malapportionment

• Apportionment

• redistricting

• gerrymandering

Running for reelection as opposed to running for the first time.

• Incumbency

• Constituency

• whip

• hold

The leader of the House of Representative, chosen by an election of the majority party.

• Speaker of the House

• Speaker of the Senate

• Whip

• House majority leader