CLEP American Government
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When the minority party becomes stronger than the majority party, usually the result of winning a critical election.
Federal funding for projects that serve the interests of the constituents of certain members of Congress and that circumvent a direct allocation process by being attached to billsand often buried in the language of billsthat frequently have nothing whatsoever to do with those projects.
Went into effect 2004; put limits on gifts to political action committees. Now candidates have increasingly appealed to voters for small donations.
A splinter party formed by former Republican President Theodore Roosevelt and his followers after the Republican's party's leaders refused to grant the presidential nomination to Roosevelt in 1912 splitting the Republican vote and allowing Democrat Woodrow Wilson to win.