PLS 101 EXAM 3 PATRICK SCOTT, PLS
101 MSU Exam (Dr. Patrick Scott)
Trustee - correct answer ✔✔are reps who listen to the opinions of the people they represent and then
uses their best judgment to make the final vote. ( of what they think is best)
Delegates - correct answer ✔✔are reps who vote the way their constituents would want them to,
regardless of their own opinions.
Standing Committee - correct answer ✔✔is a permanent committee that specializes in a particular
legislative area
Joint Committee - correct answer ✔✔a committee made up of members of both the House and the
Senate
Select Committee - correct answer ✔✔(TEMPORARY) a small legislative committee appointed for a
special purpose.
Conference Committee - correct answer ✔✔(TEMPORARY) Both houses serve/resolve differences in bills
made by each other. (key actors from both parties attend,)
Filibuster - correct answer ✔✔A delaying tactic, used in the senate, that often involves continuously
holding the floor to prevent action a piece of legislation. (to end a filibuster requires a cloture vote of
three 3/5ths of the senate)
Majority Leader - correct answer ✔✔the head of the majority party in the senate or house; the second-
highest ranking member of the majority party.
In the house, the majority party leader is the speaker of the house.
Minority leader - correct answer ✔✔the head of the majority party in a legislative body, especially the
US Senate or House of Representatives.
, President pro temp - correct answer ✔✔is elected by the majority party and is supposed to direct the
senate in the vice president's absence
Majority whip - correct answer ✔✔assist the majority leader
Minority whip: - correct answer ✔✔assist the minority leader
Inherent powers - correct answer ✔✔powers claimed by a president that are not expressed in the
Constitution but are inferred from it
Delegated powers - correct answer ✔✔congress gives the executive branch the additional authority
needed to address new problems Ex. Great depression -->Roosevelt is granted additional powers to do
what is best to solve the problem
duties of vice president: - correct answer ✔✔1.) ( the vice president's most important job is to take over
the presidency in the event of presidential death, resignation, impeachment, disability)
2.) preside over the senate
3.) help decide the question of presidents disability political chores: campaigning,
4.) fundraising etc.. president in waiting
Power to persuade - correct answer ✔✔President has no power without Congress's backing must
persuade them to help him
Presidential mandates - correct answer ✔✔Obligations of the president to pursue/fulfill the promises he
made in the campaign/platform/agenda that resulted in their victory.
Cabinet - correct answer ✔✔a group of presidential advisers; the heads of the executive department and
other key officials.
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