Civics Unit 2A Vocab

-1 of 14 NC Representatives

-elected in 2014

-on House Agriculture Committee

-NC senator

-elected in 2014

-senate Judiciary Committee

-NC Junior Senator

-Elected in 2022

-On senate Armed Forces Committee

-Speaker of the House

-2nd in line for Presidency

-President Pro Tempore

-3rd in line for presidency

-temporary vice president in their absence

Group of legislators debating, altering, and approving bills

Permanent committees in the HoR/Senate

• HoR: 20 Committees

• Senate: 16 Committees

Temporary committees in the HoR/Senate

• HoR: 5 committees

• Senate: 4 Committees

Temporary committees made of the HoR and senate to discuss bills

In the House, determines tax policies

Obstructive tactic used in Senate to block/delay a vote on a bill

Called when minority party is filibustering, forces floor to vote on a bill

Approve presidential appointments

Voted in by party caucus

• HoR: organizes agenda

• Senate: lead speaker of majority party

Negotiate with majority party/its leaders, highest ranking members of their party

Legislators with beliefs that form a group surrounding that topic

Acting in ways that benefit your political party only

Working in a way that benefits both parties (compromise)

Provision tacked onto a bill that would likely not pass as its own law

Large bills with multiple riders and hidden appropriations

Legislators working to send national funding to their district by adding earmarks to bills

House and Senate meet to form the final version of a bill

Quid-pro quo trading of votes by legislators

Congress overrides the president’s veto on a bill

Equal balance of population among each congressional district

Illogical district lines down with the intention of keeping one party in power

Competitive districts that change between democratic and republican

The reallocation of the 435 seats in the HoR after the Census

Drawing lines to divide each state into districts , redrawn every 10 years

Person currently in office

Amount of times someone can run for office

Lawsuit challenging the apportionment of population in Tennessee districts

Racial Gerrymandering in NC, attempted to include more diversity