AP Gov Unit 2 - Congress

This term is sometimes used to describe the Article I powers provided to Congress relating to financing and budgeting the government.

• Committee of the Whole

• Advice and Consent

• Oversight

• Power of the purse

Congressional leadership: _______________ is largely an honorary position and is usually given to the most senior member of the majority party

• President of the Senate

• Speaker of the House

• President Pro Tempore

• Senate Majority leader

• House Majority Whip

Spending on appropriated bills in which the levels of funding can change every fiscal year

• Conference Committee

• Gridlock

• Filibuster

• Discretionary Spending

When does apportionment happen?

• every 5 years based on the census

• every year based on the census

• every 2 years based on the census

• every 10 years based on state size

• every 10 years based on the decennial census

Expenditures by the legislature (funding) that are required by law

• Government spending

• discretionary spending

• mandatory spending

• deficit spending

Representatives and senators are the most political in this model, utilizing both the trustee and delegate models to make decisions

• Representative

• Politico

• Trustee

• Delegate

Appropriations, Judiciary, and Armed Services are all examples of _____ committees. 

• standing 
• select 
• conference
• joint 

Bills concerning taxation, spending, borrowing and gov't counterfeiting (quantitative easing) must begin in the --- 

• House of Representative
• Supreme Court
• Senate
• White House

Members of Congress are generally more... _______ than the general population

• less partisan

• more educated

• wealthy

• more partisan

Holding this position is the only constitutionally delegated responsibility of the Vice President

• President of the Senate

• President Pro Tempore of the Senate

• Break ties in the House of Representatives

• Speaker of the House