Unit Four Lesson Eleven Government

Funds allocated by a legislature for a stated purpose as part of a budget or spending bill

• Joint resolution

• Casework

• Appropriations

• Joint committee

Personal services provided by members of Congress to their constituents

• Appropriations

• Casework

• Constituents

• Standing committee

A temporary committee of legislators from both the House and Senate created to work out differences in bills

• Constituent

• Joint resolution

• Appropriations

• Conference committee

A person who lives in an electoral district and is represented by an elected official

• Constituent

• Joint resolution

• Appropriations

• Conference committee

A permanent committee of legislators from both the House and Senate that deals with matters of common interest

• Standing committee

• Pork

• conference committee

• Joint committee

Official statement issued by both houses of Congress; once signed by the president a joint resolution has force of a law

• Joint committee

• Casework

• Joint resolution

• Standing committee

Publicly funded projects secured by legislators to benefit their home districts or states

• Casework

• Pork

• Constituent

• Appropriations

A permanent committee of legislators from either the House or Senate responsible for specific policy areas

• Joint committee

• Casework

• Standing committee

• Judicial committee

Which lawmakers must be at least 30 years old and U.S. citizens for at least nine years?

• State Legislators

• U.S House members

• School board members

• U.S Senators

Dividing the House seats among the states according to each state's population.

• Casework

• Apportionment

• Pork

• Legislating