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| The Committee on Rules or Rules Committee, is a committee of the United States House of Representatives. Rather than being responsible for a specific area of policy, as most other committees are, it is in charge of determining under what rule other bills will come to the floor. |
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| Differences between house and senate |
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- Initiates all revenue bills
- Two-year terms
- Comprises 435 members (apportioned by population)
- Initiates impeachment procedures and passes articles of impeachment.
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- Offers "advice and consent" on many major presidential appointments
- Tries impeached officials
- Approves treaties
- Six-year terms (1/3 up for reelection every two years)
- Comprises 100 members (2 from each state) |
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| A whip is a role in party politics whose primary purpose is to ensure control of the formal decision-making process in a parliamentary legislature. Whips are party 'enforcers', who typically offer both inducements and punishments to party members. |
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| The official chair of the senate although it has no real powers, and is mostly ceremonial. |
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| Vice President, only votes in case of tie and rarely attends senate sessions. |
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| Backgrounds of congress people |
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| 90% male, most are well educated, Most are from upper-middle class or upper income, most are protestants, although in recent years, a more proportional number have been rRoman Catholic and Jewish. Most are white with a few African american, asians, hispanics, native Average senator age is 60 and represenatative age is 55. 40% are lawyers, others are business owners or officers, professors and teachers,clergy, and farmers. |
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| a formal document charging a public official with misconduct in office |
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| The Senate Majority and Minority Leaders are two United States Senators who are elected by the party conferences that hold the majority and the minority respectively. |
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| consist of members from both house and senate and are formed exclusively to compromise the differences between the senate and the house versions of similar bills. |
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| The current salary (2010) for rank-and-file members of the House and Senate is $174,000 per year., Majority Party Leader - $193,400, Minority Party Leader - $193,400, Speaker of the house- 223, 500, Majority and Minority leader- 193,400. Recieve health and retirement benfits that federal employees have. |
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| oversight that congress has over the executive branch. |
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| congressional term limits |
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| 2 years per term, unlimited terms- house, 6 years a term and unlimited terms- senate. |
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| A candidates citizens that voted for him in previous years. |
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House: 25 years of age, 7 years a citizen.
Senate- 30 years of age and 9 years a citizen. |
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| A constitutionally mandated redrawing of local, state, and federal political boundaries every ten years following the US census. The lines of Assembly, Senate, and Congressional Districts are redrawn to reflect changing demographics and population shifts. |
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| 3/5 of the entire senate membership must vote to stop a debate. |
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| talking a bill to death through never ending debate. |
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| The biased redistricting by state legislatures of a state to aid a certain party. |
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| They cannot be arrested for petty crime because they could frame them if they didn't like that person. |
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| Free mailing for incumbents |
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| census is the procedure of systematically acquiring and recording information about the members of a given population. It is a regularly occurring and official count of a particular population. |
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| distribution or alottment in equal shares. |
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| Gives congress the power to look over the presidents actions concerneing foreign treaties. |
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| two house system of legislature. |
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| Direct election of united states senators by popular vote. |
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| Free Mailing, more money, name recognition, more experienced with campaigning. |
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| benefits for a candidates district and bills that give those benefits to their constituents in hope of gaining their votes. |
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| The review and possible revision of a piece of legislation by committee members. |
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| Regular committees of the House and Senate established by the rules of each house to consider legislation and perform certain legislative actions. |
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| a subset of committee members organized for a specific purpose. |
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