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: Gov. Ch. 12
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What are select committees?
What is a bill?
How do consitutional and party officers keep Congress organized?
Compare and contrast a simple resolution, a joint resolution, and a concurrent resolution.
What are the four options a President has when a bill reaches his desk?
What is a pocket veto?
What happens to most bills?
They are set up for some specific purpose for a limited amount of time.
Simple deal with just one house alone, while joint are temporary, and concurrent deal with both houses.
That's when a president doesn't approve or reject a bill, but Congress adjourns before 10 days are reached, so it doesn't become law.
With committees in charge of specific fields.
Approve, veto, allow the bill to become law without signing it w/in 10 days, or a pocket veto.
a proposed law
They're either forgotten about altogether or pigeon-holed.
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What does it mean to veto?
What does a parliamentarian do?
What does a sergeant at arms do?
What is more important Speaker of the House or President of the Senate?
What is a rider?
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What is a whip?
to reject a bill
That's when a president doesn't approve or reject a bill, but Congress adjourns before 10 days are reached, so it doesn't become law.
An assistant to a floor leader.
When the two houses pass differing versions of a bill and the first house will not agree to the changes the other has made, they step in to create a compromise bill that both houses will accept.
keeps order
What is a quorum?
keeps order
They are set up for some specific purpose for a limited amount of time.
A majority.
With committees in charge of specific fields.
to reject a bill
What are joint committees?
They are composed of members of both houses.
An assistant to a floor leader.
An effort to keep talking long enough to prevent a vote on a bill.
They make sure the rules of operation are followed.
What is a conference committee?
Approve, veto, allow the bill to become law without signing it w/in 10 days, or a pocket veto.
They are set up for some specific purpose for a limited amount of time.
When the two houses pass differing versions of a bill and the first house will not agree to the changes the other has made, they step in to create a compromise bill that both houses will accept.
A division of a standing committee which does most of the committees' work.
An effort to keep talking long enough to prevent a vote on a bill.
What is a filibuster?
When the two houses pass differing versions of a bill and the first house will not agree to the changes the other has made, they step in to create a compromise bill that both houses will accept.
keeps order
An effort to keep talking long enough to prevent a vote on a bill.
a proposed law
Approve, veto, allow the bill to become law without signing it w/in 10 days, or a pocket veto.
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Practice Test: Gov. Ch. 12