AP GOV LEGISLATIVE

Unit 2 – Legislative Branch Vocabulary 

(A&W Chapter 4; Princeton Review p. 118-132)

Advice and Consent

Apportionment

Baker v. Carr (1962)

Bicameral legislature

Bipartisanship

Budget deficit

Budget surplus

Caucus (Congressional)

Closed rule

Cloture rule

Committee chair

Committee of the Whole

Concurrent resolution

Conference committee

Congressional Budget Office

Congressional oversight

Congressional Research Service

Constituency

Deficit

Delegate role

Discharge petition

Discretionary spending 

Divided Government

Division vote (standing vote)

Double-tracking

Earmark

Entitlement program

Enumerated powers

Expressed powers

Filibuster

Franking Privilege

Government Accountability Office

Germane

Gerrymandering 

Gridlock

Hold

House Judiciary Committee

Impeach

Implied powers

Incumbency

Incumbency advantage

Joint committee

Lame duck period

Logrolling

Majority Leader

Majority-minority districts

Malapportionment

Mandatory spending

Marginal seat/Marginal district

Mark-Up Session

Minority leader

Multiple referral 

National debt

OMB

Omnibus spending bill 

Open Rule

Oversight

Party Polarization 

Political Action Committee (PAC)

Politico role

Pork-barrel legislation

President of the Senate

President pro tempore

Quorum

Quorum call

Reapportionment

Redistricting 

Restrictive rule

Rider

Roll-call vote

Rules Committee

Safe seat/Safe district

Select committee

Sequential referral

Seventeenth Amendment

Shaw v. Reno (1993)

Simple resolution

Sophomore surge

Speaker of the House

Sponsor

Standing committees

Swing districts

Trustee role

Unanimous consent agreement

Unified Government 

Veto

Voice vote

War Powers Act

Ways and Means Committee

Whip