Congress Test

Question 0

Members agree in advance to support each other’s bills

Answer 0

Logrolling

Question 1

The division of legislature into 2 separate assemblies

Answer 1

Bicameral ism

Question 2

Making additions to bills in exchange for votes

Answer 2

Earmarks

Question 3

How does the trustee view representation?

Answer 3

What’s best for the country

Question 4

How does the instructed delegate view representation?

Answer 4

What the constituents want

Question 5

The role of constituents is

Answer 5

To elect congress; inform them of what they want done

Question 6

Congress can go back and make sure their legislation is being enforced as they intended

Answer 6

Oversight

Question 7

Powers of the house

Answer 7

Revenue bills, impeachment powers

Question 8

Powers of senate

Answer 8

Major presidential appointments, treaties with other nations

Question 9

Differences between house and senate?

Answer 9

House: members based on population, 2 yr terms
Senate: 2 members per state, 6 yr terms

Question 10

Refusing to give up the floor so a bill is killed

Answer 10

Filibuster

Question 11

Parliamentary procedure that allows senate to override a rule by majority rule

Answer 11

Nuclear option

Question 12

What is the general makeup of congress?

Answer 12

White males with high education. And we’re once lawyers

Question 13

How do confidantes get on the ballot?

Answer 13

Party identifiers

Question 14

Between major elections how is voter turn out?

Answer 14

Voter turn out is very low

Question 15

Allocation of seats in the house to each state after each census

Answer 15

Reapportionment

Question 16

Rigging the districts so your party had majority

Answer 16

Gerrymandering

Question 17

Drawing the boundaries of each district

Answer 17

Redistricting

Question 18

The Supreme Court has ruled that re districting must be based on…

Answer 18

Population and race can take into account but can’t be the main factor

Question 19

What are the expressed powers of congress?

Answer 19

Impose taxes, make laws, establish post offices, declare war

Question 20

Allowing congress members to send mail to their constituents for free

Answer 20

Franking privileges

Question 21

Dye average senate office on Capital Hill employs how many people?

Answer 21

30

Question 22

Are congress members usually immune from libel or slander during official duties?

Answer 22

Yes

Question 23

Handles bills in different policy areas

Answer 23

Standing committee

Question 24

Formed for specific purposes and are usually temporary

Answer 24

Select committee

Question 25

Consist of members from the House and the Senate

Answer 25

Joint committee

Question 26

Members from both House and Senate exclusively hammer out differences between House and Senate versions of similar bills

Answer 26

Conference committee

Question 27

Which committee is most important?

Answer 27

Conference committee

Question 28

A discharge petition is what?

Answer 28

It comes from the house and the house can force a committee to give up a bill

Question 29

The seniority system in Congress establishes what?

Answer 29

Who's on what committee

Question 30

Who is most powerful in the House?

Answer 30

Speaker of the House

Question 31

What is the role of the majority leader?

Answer 31

Schedules what bills are heard

Question 32

What do whips do?

Answer 32

Figure out how each person is planning to vote

Question 33

Which branch has more control over the agenda?

Answer 33

House

Question 34

Who is the most powerful member of the Senate?

Answer 34

The Majority Leader

Question 35

What is pork?

Answer 35

Passing bills to benefit your district

Question 36

All money bills must come from where?

Answer 36

The House

Question 37

The biggest predictor of how people will vote is

Answer 37

Their party affiliation

Question 38

When a bill is referred to a committee what will the committee do?

Answer 38

Fix it and work out its issues

Question 39

What does the rules committee do?

Answer 39

Set time limits and regulations on debate

Question 40

What is appropriation? What is an appropriation bill?

Answer 40

Giving money; a bill delegating money for something specific

Question 41

Ecknowledging that something needs to be done on a particular issue but not doing anything

Answer 41

Continuing resolution

Question 42

The Speaker of the House has grown since the House has become

Answer 42

More partisan

Question 43

Congress' public approval rating rarely goes above

Answer 43

40%