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which is an important factor in organizing the work of congress

• apportionment

• Gerrymandering

• pork

• parties

in the senate, the most sanior leadership role is ____. In the house, the most senior leadership role is ____

• speaker, majority leader

• minority leader, majority leader

• majority leader, minority leader

• majority leader, speaker

how is the speaker of the house determined

• the vice president of the US is also the speaker of the house

• the representative with the longest tenture in the house is the speaker of the house

• the elected leader of the majority party in the house is the speaker

• the president selects the speaker of the house from the makority party in the house

who decides which committee assignments members of the house of rep. recieves

• the speaker of the house

• each partys own steering and policy committee

• the president for members of his or her own party and either the house majority or minority leader for opposition members

• each partys whip

the president pro tempore of the senate is usually

• the minority party leader with the greatest seniority

• the minority party leader with the least seniority

• selected directly by the president

• the majority party member with the greatest seniority

a _____ committee remains in existence from one session of Congress to the next, and has the power to write legislation that covers a

particular subject, in most cases paralleling a major department or agency of the executive branch.

• conference

• joint

• standing

• select

the house rules committee is important because it

• is placed in charge of selecting the speaker of the house

• decides the order in which bills come up for a vote on the house floor and determines the specific rules that govern the length of debate and opportunity for amendments

• reviews all applications regarding the formation of select committees

• determines the jurisdiction of every congressional standing committee

conference committees are

• permanent and involve members from both the house and the senate

• temporary and are created to take up an issue that fails between the jurisdiction of existing committees to highlight issue or to investigate a particular problem

• permanent and have the power to write and propose legislation

• temporary involve members from both houses of congress, and are charged with reaching a compromise on legislation once it has been passed by both the house and the senate

oversight can best be described as the

• efforts of congress to supervise the manner in which its laws are implemented by the executive branch

• Organizational control exercised by party whips over members of Congress.

• authority of committee chairs over the hearings and investigations conducted by the subcommittees.

• approval that the Senate must give to all presidential appointments to the federal judiciary

the amount of money approved by congress in bills that each agency of government can spend is called

• redIstricung

• appropriations

• pork barreling

• oversight