APGoPo Unit 2: Week 1-2 Key Terms

1. Talking a bill to death by not allowing debate to end and a vote to occur

• Filibuster

• Cloture

• 1. Logrolling

• Lame duck

1. A House committee that includes all the members of the House, but is governed by different rules of procedure than the meeting of the House itself

• 1. Rules Committee

• 1. Committee of the Whole

• 1. Standing Committee

• 1. Ways and Means Committee

  
  

1. Funding that congressional committees debate and decide how to divide up

• 1. Mandatory spending

• 1. Pork barrel spending

• 1. Entitlements

• 1. Discretionary spending

1. Illogical electoral district lines that are drawn to give the advantage to one political party

• 1. Reapportionment

• 1. Redistricting

• 1. Logrolling

• Gerrymandering

1. A representative who sees themselves as an agent of those who elected them and will vote on issues based on the interests of their constituents

• 1. Trustee Model

• 1. Politico Model

• 1. Delegate Model

• 1. Partisanship Model

  
  

1. A House committee responsible for the rules under which bills will be presented to the House of Representatives.

• 1. Rules Committee

• 1. Committee of the Whole

• 1. Standing Committee

• 1. Ways and Means Committee

1. Strong allegiance to one's own political party, often leading to unwillingness to compromise with members of the opposing party.

• 1. Bipartisanship

• 2.  Lame duck

• Partisanship

• Filibuster

1. The reallocation of the number of representatives each state has in the House of Representatives to accommodate population shifts

• 1. Reapportionment

• Redistricting

• 1. Logrolling

• Gerrymandering

1. If enough signatures are obtained, this brings a bill out of committee and onto the House floor

• Logrolling

• Cloture

• 1. Discharge petitions

• Entitlements

1. Funding required by law for certain programs

• 1. Mandatory spending

• 1. Pork barrel spending

• Entitlements

• 1. Discretionary spending