Chapter 11:Congress
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- 3. pro tempore the senator who acts in the absence of the actual president of the senate, who is also the vice president of the United States.
- 5. a parliamentary maneuver used in the Senate to extend debate on a piece of legislation as long as possible.
- 6. the body of voters, or constituents, represented by a partner politician.
- 7. proposed legislation under consideration by a legislature.
- 8. the right to review and monitor other bodies such as the executive branch.
- 10. powers the power not neither enumerated nor implied but assumed to exist as a direct result of the country's existence.
- 13. a parliamentary process to end a debate in the Senate, as a measure against the filibuster.
- 14. is the political process that results from dividing a legislature into a separate assemblies.
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- 1. the process by which seat in the house of representative are distributed among the fifty states.
- 2. powers the power given explicitly to the federal government by the constitution to regulate interstate and foreign commerce, raise and support armies, declare war, coin money, and conduct foreign affairs.
- 4. committee a permanent legislative committee that meets regularly.
- 6. representation of the relationship between congress and the United States as a whole, and whether the institution itself represents the American people.
- 9. process the powers not specifically detailed in the U.S. Constitution but inferred as necessary to achieve the objectives of the national government.
- 11. of the house the presiding officer of the House of Representatives and the leader of the majority party.
- 12. in the House and the Senate a high leadership position whose primary duty is to enforce voting discipline in the chambers and conferences.