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NAME CLASS DATE Section 2: Guided Reading and Review Committees in Congress CHAPTER 12 A. As You Read Complete the graphic organizer below by answering the questions about congressional committees. Standing Committees 1. What is a standing committee? ________ a permanent group of either the House or Senate to consider bills ____________________________________ in specific subjects 2. What are the committees’ functions? Standing committees investigate, evaluate, and sift ____________________________________ through proposed bills. 3. Give 3 examples of such committees. ____________________________________ Possible answers: House Ways and Means; Senate ____________________________________ Finance; House National Security. See chart on ____________________________________ Student Edition p. 330 for a list of other possible answers. Select Committees 4. What is a select committee?____________ a temporary ____________________________________ panel set up for some specific purpose 5. What does a select committee do? ______ Select committees investigate some current matter for ____________________________________ possible new laws or for special issues. 6. Give 2 examples of a select committee from 1987.__________________________ House Select Committee to ____________________________________ Investigate Covert Arms Transactions with Iran; ____________________________________ Senate Select Committee on Secret Military ____________________________________ Assistance to Iran and the Nicaraguan Opposition Types of Congressional Committees Joint Committees Conference Committees © Pearson Education, Inc. 7. What is a joint committee? ____________ a committee composed ____________________________________ of members from both houses 8. What does a joint committee do? investigates and issues reports; deals with issues common ______ ____________________________________ to both houses; some have routine duties 9. Give 3 examples of a joint committee. ____________________________________ Joint Economic Committee, Joint Committee ____________________________________ on Printing, Joint Committee on the Library ____________________________________ of Congress 10. What is a conference committee? ______ ____________________________________ A conference committee is temporary and composed ____________________________________ of members of both houses. ____________________________________ 11. What does a conference committee do? ____________________________________ irons out differences between similar bills in the ____________________________________ House and Senate and produces compromise bills ____________________________________ B. Reviewing Key Terms Answer the question below on a separate sheet of paper. 12. How does the House Rules Committee act as a “traffic cop” in the lower house? It manages the flow of bills for action by the full House and grants rules, or schedules for consideration, to bills as they emerge from committees. Guided Reading and Review Chapter 12 59
NAME CLASS DATE CHAPTER 12 Section 3: Guided Reading and Review How a Bill Becomes a Law: The House A. As You Read Fill in the information below by writing the answers in the blanks provided. 1. Most bills are introduced in Congress by ______________________________________________ the executive branch, pressure groups, and private citizens. __________________________________________________________________________________ 2. A bill is __________________________________________________________________________ a proposed law. 3. A resolution deals with ____________________________________________________________ a matter that concerns either house alone. 4. A joint resolution is like a bill because ________________________________________________ it has the force of law. __________________________________________________________________________________ 5. A concurrent resolution deals with __________________________________________________ matters in which both houses must act jointly without the force of law. __________________________________________________________________________________ 6. At a first reading of a bill, the clerk __________________________________________________ numbers and names the bill and enters it into the House Journal and __________________________________________________________________________________ the Congressional Record. 7. Five courses of action a committee may take on a bill are:________________________________ report it favorably; refuse to report it; __________________________________________________________________________________ report it in amended form; report it unfavorably; or report a substitute bill written by the committee. __________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________ 8. Four types of votes in the House are: ________________________________________________ voice votes, standing votes, teller votes, and roll-call votes. __________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________ 9. After a bill has been passed and signed by the Speaker, __________________________________ it is placed on the Senate president’s desk. __________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________ B. Reviewing Key Terms Define the following terms. 10. rider __________________________________________________________________________ a provision that is attached to a measure that is likely to pass 11. quorum ________________________________________________________________________ the portion of the full membership that must be present in order to do business 12. concurrent resolution______________________________________________________________ matters in which the Senate and the House must act jointly 13. discharge petition ________________________________________________________________ a move that forces a committee to present a bill for consideration to the House 14. Committee of the Whole __________________________________________________________ all the members of the House sitting as one large committee © Pearson Education, Inc. 60 Chapter 12 Guided Reading and Review
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