Congress+and+Lawmaking

Congress and Lawmaking __Index __  -Magruder's Book: Chapters 9-12  -5 Steps to a 5: Chapter 12 (pg. 139)  __Congress and Law making: KEY WORDS __ 1) Gerrymandered -districts that have been drawn to the advantage of the political party that controls the state’s legislative

2) Expressed Powers -Powers the Constitution specifically grants to one of the branches of the national government

3) Implied Powers -powers that congress has that are not stated openly in the constitution

4) Inherent Powers -The powers of the national government in foreign affairs that the Supreme Court has declared do not depend on constitutional grants but rather grow out of the very existence of the national government

5) Commerce Powers -The Commerce Clause, Article I Section 8 Clause 3 of the Constitution of the United States, grants Congress the power “To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes”. The commerce power is an enumerated power of Congress and it as an express grant of authority to Congress and an affirmative limitation on the rights of the states to regulate commerce within their own borders.

6) Necessary and Proper Clause (elastic clause)-the part of the Constitution that permits Congress to make any laws "necessary and proper" to carrying out its powers

7) Speaker of the House - the leader of the majority party who serves as the presiding officer of the House of Representatives

8) President of the Senate -presiding officer of a senate, and is the speaker of other assemblies.

9) Party Caucus - a formal gathering of all party members

10) Majority/minority leader - s erve as the chief Senate spokespeople for their parties and manage and schedule the legislative and executive business of the Senate.

<span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 14pt;">11) Whip -a legislator appointed by the party to enforce discipline

<span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 14pt;">12) Committee Chairman -Those members who head the standing committees in each chamber and also hold strategic posts

<span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 14pt;">13) Standing Committee -a permanent committee in Congress that oversees bills that deal with certain kinds of issues

<span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 14pt;">14) Subcommittee - A subordinate committee composed of members appointed from a main committee

<span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 14pt;">15) Joint Committee -A committee of the House and the Senate that usually acts as a study group and reports its findings back to the <span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 14pt;">House and the Senate

<span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 14pt;">16) Pocket Veto -when a president kills a bill passed during the last 10 days Congress is in session by simply refusing to act on it

<span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 14pt;">17) Veto -the power or right to prohibit or reject a proposed or intended act (especially the power of a chief executive to reject a bill passed by the legislature)

<span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 14pt;">18) Filibuster -a legislator who gives long speeches in an effort to delay or obstruct legislation that he (or she) opposes

<span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 14pt;">19) Cloture -a rule for limiting or ending debate in a deliberative body

<span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 14pt;">20) Engrossed -printed in its final form

<span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 14pt;">21) Discharged Petition - enables members to force a bill that has remained in the committee for 30 days onto the floor for consideration

<span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 14pt;">22) Rider - an additional provision added to a bill or other measure under the consideration by a legislature, having little connection with the subject matter of the bill. Riders are usually created as a tactic to pass a controversial provision that would not pass as its own bill.

<span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 14pt;">23) Pigeonhole -bills that are buried die in the committee

<span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 14pt;">24) Select Committee -a parliamentary committee appointed for some special purpose

<span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 14pt;">25) Conference Committee -committee appointed by the presiding officers of each chamber to adjust differences on a particular bill passed by each in different form.

__<span style="color: #52a540; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 17pt;">KEY QUESTIONS __

=<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">2) What are the differences between inherent, implied and express powers? = =<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">3) What responsibilities does the political party whip hold? = =<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">4) What are the differences between select, standing, and joint committees in the U.S. government? =
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">1) ** **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">How are the roles in President of the Senate, President Pro Tempore and Speaker of the House different? **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">5) ** **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">What is the difference between gerrymandering and redistricting? **

= __<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Links __ =

<span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0.917969); color: #222222; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> @http://www.congresslink.org/print_index6res.htm

<span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0.917969); color: #222222; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">- scroll..gives all resources

<span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0.917969); color: #222222; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> @http://www.polisci.ccsu.edu/trieb/Cong-2.html

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<span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0.917969); color: #222222; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> @http://www.senate.leg.state.mn.us/publications/billlaw.pdf <span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0.917969); color: #222222; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0.917969); color: #222222; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Political Cartoons

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<span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0.917969); color: #222222; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">- how laws are made <span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0.917969); color: #222222; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0.917969); color: #222222; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0.917969); color: #222222; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">POWERPOINT WITH SAMPLE MULTIPLE CHOICE ANSWERS AND EXPLANATIONS: <span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0.917969); color: #222222; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">[|https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1tWMA5jLpvoyeIiH8QBhNSdTIa01GJyTe6XmR-kakihA/edit?pli=1#slide=id.g246af9f0_0_89] <span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0.917969); color: #222222; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0.917969); color: #222222; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">POWERPOINT WITH FRQ AND ANSWERS: <span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0.917969); color: #222222; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> [|https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/10ogjOcDxffVkOUBIpSLD2OBLbRbruS3-c8iMeU9YBmw/edit#slide=id.g10f4c405_0_45]

POWERPOINT PRESENTED IN CLASS: [|https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1bJi-I6O8Gky3AH-cDx93EAwGRCmSnOgFrV6VROk3-iA/edit#slide=id.p]