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25 yrs old
citizen for 7 yrs
living in state where district resides
vacancies filled by special elections |
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30 yrs old
citizen for 9 yrs
vacancies: the state legislatures authorize the governor to appoint a replacement |
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| some districts have more people than other districts but they have the same number of representatives |
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| Political party redraws districts to keep its party in charge. This is politically accepted |
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| the legislature draws districts to dilute voting strength of racial/ ethnic groups: this is illegal. |
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| Majority-Minority districts |
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| these are allowed. This is concentrating racial and ethic groups. Democrats like these because a lot of their voters are minorities, and therefore their representatives tend to be democrats. This can also work in Republicans favor because in the districts with more republicans, there are less minorities to taint the republican vote. |
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| Benefits of the incumbant |
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| there are few competitive races so they hardly have anyone to go against. They have a record to run on. They already have a strong fan base and name recognition. They also already have their own staff and people who can help them with the various things like constituency service and legislation. |
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| send out fliers showing the things that they have already accomplished in office. |
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| the incumbent and staff help their constituents when they are contacts |
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| projects for the state and district. The incumbent puts money into a little project in their district or state that their people will benefit from. "Earmarks." |
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| specialization, deference, courtest, institutional patriotism, legislative work, appreticeship, seniority |
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| # of dems v reps reflect min/maj in congress |
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| the most senior member of the majority party |
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| selected by majority party |
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| selected by the minority party |
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| majority and minority whips |
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they count votes and find out if people are going to support bills and why
they give the info back to the leader |
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| comes from the majority party |
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| these are permanent. they don't change ever time a new congress is elected. |
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| not permanent- deals with a topic that won't be a problem for a long time. decided by the president or speaker |
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| members from the house adn the senate- do not report out bills |
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| things that are passed by congress that deal with rules of operation. they stay within that particular chamber |
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| passed in the house and the senate as house keeping measures |
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| they are like bills; both the house and the senate pass these and the president can veto or sign it. |
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| is essentially a waiting list. Bills need a rule for debate. |
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| no amendments or amendments only from committees that reviewed the bill. |
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| any member can offer amendments. Use this as a good bill to make bad sometimes by using a lot of amendments. |
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| some amendments allowed, not others. |
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| Bypassing a rule committee |
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Motion to suspend the rules – if 2/3 of House vote to suspend the rules, rules are suspended.
Discharge petition – need 218 members to agree
Calendar Wednesday – before a rule has been issued. Bring up bill on Wednesday however all of the work has to be done on Wednesday. Only works for simple bills. |
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| if you don’t have a quorum or you want to slow things down, you do a quorum call. You ask the person who is presiding as a speaker, you ask a quorum call. Basically like a time out. |
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| as long as you are in control of the floor you can say whatever you want to say. You can halt all the work. Today they threaten to filibuster. They agree to put the bill aside. |
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