Unit 4 AP Government (1-10)

2. Who presides over the House, Appoints and selects conference committees, assigns bills to committees and appoints the Rules Committee members?
5. Nonstop debate to kill a bill.
7. Redistricting in favor of one party.
9. Where real work of Congress is done and where a bill must pass through before it reaches the House floor.
11. Committee that screens judicial nominees.
14. Who presides over the senate in the absence of the vice president?
15. Person in a committee who sets the committee agenda, hires staff, and has jurisdiction of subcommittees.
19. Passage of a bill requires this majority in the House.
20. Committee that allows for creation of federal programs.
21. Temporary committees created when House and Senate versions of a bill differ. They create a new version, and no amendments are allowed.
23. President places most of his trust with this staff.

1. Committee in the House that deals with tax bills.
3. Type of petition that can send a bill directly from the committee to the House floor.
4. If the president is disabled, under the 25th amendment, the vice president becomes this.
6. powers Powers that relate to the system of Checks and Balances.
8. Committee that provides funding
10. What committee sets the legislative calendar and issues rules for debate and amendments?
12. President can do this after a bill is passed in both houses, it can be overridden with a 2/3 vote in both houses of Congress.
13. who presides over the Senate and votes in case of a tie?
16. The longer a person has been in a committee, the higher chance they have of being elected as chairperson for that committee.
17. To postpone a bill indefinitely.
18. Founders believed that Congress, not the President, was to be the dominant power (true or false)?
22. Committee in the Senate that deals with tax bills.
24. The permanent committees of Congress.