Help constituents solve problems, casework, do things for voters, help w/ policy.
  • Franking privilege
  • What is a major job of congressional staff?
  • What is a particularly powerful committee?
  • About what number of aids does a House member have? A senator?
Speaker sends bill to standing committee where most bills die.
  • Poison Pill Amendment
  • Order of bill
  • Introduction of bill
  • Christmas tree bill
A house member has 17 assistants and a senator has over 40 on average.
  • Pork barrel legislation/earmarks
  • About what number of aids does a House member have? A senator?
  • Sources of Bills
  • Why are standing committee's the "important ones"?
Rules committee: sets procedures.Close: no amendsOpen: amendsRestricted: specific amendsAll limit debate- 5 minutes total. (House)Senate has no debate limit.
  • Political polarization
  • Sources of Bills
  • Rules for bills onto floor
  • Franking privilege
Bills that give tangible benefits (highways, dams) to constituents in hopes of winning their vote in return.
  • Political polarization
  • Rules for bills onto floor
  • What is a major job of congressional staff?
  • Pork barrel legislation/earmarks
Ways and Means Committee.
  • Division (standing) vote
  • What is a particularly powerful committee?
  • Where do tax bills originate?
  • Why are standing committee's the "important ones"?
Settles housekeeping and procederal matters that affect both houses.
  • Concurrent resolution
  • Poison Pill Amendment
  • If a bill is accepted then:
  • Introduction of bill
In either House.
  • Pork barrel legislation/earmarks
  • Voice vote
  • Where do tax bills originate?
  • Rules for bills onto floor
B/c House's special position in relation to revenue legislation, handles those bills and particularly powerful.
  • Ways and Means Committee
  • Blue Dogs
  • Standing Committee
  • Conference Committee
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  • Standing Committee
  • Conference Committee
  • Congressional Research Service
  • If a bill is accepted then:
Joint committee to resolve difference in the SEnate and House version of the same bill.
  • Conference Committee
  • Select Committee
  • Ways and Means Committee
  • Join Committee
Speaker and majority leader.
  • Framers wanted legislation to be:
  • Cloture rule
  • Who schedules bills for floor debate in the House? SEnate?
  • What's the final action the president can take on a bill? What can Congress to do "override" a presidential action?
(Passed by House/Senate) is used for matters such as establishing the rules under which each body will operate.
  • If a bill is accepted then:
  • Simple resolution
  • Order of bill
  • What happens when a bill is sent to a standing committee?
Groups appointed for a specific purpose usually only lasting a few Congresses.
  • Select Committee
  • Join Committee
  • Standing Committee
  • Conference Committee
Answering "yea" or "nay" to their names.
  • Log rolling
  • Division (standing) vote
  • What is a particularly powerful committee?
  • Voice vote
Order from House Rules committee that permits a bill to be amended on the floor.
  • Closed rule
  • Generally speaking, what determines who became the chair of a standing committee?
  • Quorum
  • Open rule
Standing committees are the important ones because they're the only ones that can propose legislation by reporting a bill out to the House or Senate.
  • What is a major job of congressional staff?
  • Why are standing committee's the "important ones"?
  • Rules for bills onto floor
  • What is a particularly powerful committee?
-Congress people-Interest groups-Executive branch/agencies-Constituents
  • Sources of Bills
  • Voice vote
  • Political polarization
  • Franking privilege
Speaker-sends to standing committee- most bills die. Only ones who can propose legislation by proposing a bill out to the Full house or Senate.
  • If a bill is accepted then:
  • Concurrent resolution
  • Simple resolution
  • What happens when a bill is sent to a standing committee?
More or less permanent bodies w/ specified legislative responsibilities.
  • Standing Committee
  • Ways and Means Committee
  • Conference Committee
  • Select Committee
Those on which representatives and Senate both serve.
  • Ways and Means Committee
  • Blue Dogs
  • Join Committee
  • Conference Committee
Seniority on the committee governs the determination of the chair of a standing committee.
  • Framers wanted legislation to be:
  • Closed rule
  • What's the final action the president can take on a bill? What can Congress to do "override" a presidential action?
  • Generally speaking, what determines who became the chair of a standing committee?
Members shouting "yea" or "nay".
  • Division (standing) vote
  • Where do tax bills originate?
  • Voice vote
  • Log rolling
The president pro tempore presides over its sessions or appoints another senator to do so. The president pro tempore is elected by the Senate and is customarily the longest serving senator in the majority party.
  • Quorum
  • What's the final action the president can take on a bill? What can Congress to do "override" a presidential action?
  • Cloture rule
  • ...
Makes amendment to purposely kill another amendment.
  • If a bill is accepted then:
  • Order of bill
  • Concurrent resolution
  • Poison Pill Amendment
A provision added to a piece of legislation that's not germane to the bill's purpose.
  • Rider
  • Sources of Bills
  • Franking privilege
  • What is a major job of congressional staff?
Order from House Rules committee that sets strict time limit on debate and forbids a bill from being amended.
  • Framers wanted legislation to be:
  • Cloture rule
  • Closed rule
  • Quorum
Bribing and reassuring vote.
  • Partisanship
  • Log rolling
  • What is a particularly powerful committee?
  • Pork barrel legislation/earmarks
1) Referred to subcommittee2) Goes back to standing committee and is approved or rejected then sent to the floor.
  • If a bill is accepted then:
  • Simple resolution
  • Poison Pill Amendment
  • Introduction of bill
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