Ch 7 Vocab review

A lawmaking body of two houses.

• President pro tempore

• Bicameral legislature

• Filibuster

• Appropriation bill

Distributed

• Apportioned

• Gerrymandering

• Act

• Filibuster

The practice drawing district lines.

• Gerrymandering

• Treason

• Cloture

• Bill

Legal protection

• Immunity

• Expulsion

• Censure

• Filibuster

A person must give up his or her seat in Congress.

• Expulsion

• Censure

• Sessions

• Caucuses

A formal disapproval of a member’s action.

• Censure

• Caucuses

• Treason

• Cloture

One for each year of the term.

• Sessions

• Filibuster

• Immunity

• Treason

Private meeting.

• Speaker of the House

• Whip

• Filibuster

• Caucuses

A Latin term meaning for the time being.

• Expulsion

• President pro tempore

• Implied powers

• Apportioned

The person who presides over the House when it is in session. 

• Elastic clause

• Speaker of the House

• Bicameral legislature

• President pro tempore