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PSCI 2306 Chapter 4-7 Test Questions with Correct Answers According to the text, why was Congress slow to act on President Obama's health care reform proposal? - Answer-Members faced conflicting pressures when evaluating the proposed reforms. Which of the following would be considered an instit...

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According to the text, why was Congress slow to act on President Obama's health care
reform proposal? - Answer-Members faced conflicting pressures when evaluating the
proposed reforms.

Which of the following would be considered an institutional norm developed in
Congress? - Answer-reciprocity

Which of the following would generally be considered the PRIMARY personal goal of
most members of Congress? - Answer-winning reelection

Which of the following statements regarding interest groups and lobbyists is MOST
accurate? - Answer-Interest groups supply legislators with position papers and memos.

The anti-Federalists worried about which of the following? - Answer-the size of
Congress

Approximately what percentage of Congress is female? - Answer-24 percent

Which of the following is an accurate statement regarding women in Congress? -
Answer-Membership in the U.S. Congress reflects the average membership of women
in parliaments around the world.

Which group had the largest percent change from the 115th Congress to the 116th
Congress? - Answer-LGBT

In which of the following categories is Congress MOST representative of the U.S.
population at large? - Answer-religious affiliation

Membership in Congress can be generally described as which of the following? -
Answer-mostly "old white guys"

If we consider a member of Congress to be acting as a delegate, what is that person
doing? - Answer-following the will of his or her constituency

, If a member of Congress voted for the president's federal budget against the will of his
constituents, we would say that the congressman was doing what? - Answer-acting as a
trustee

What is the term for the representational dynamic that each member of Congress
develops to meet the specific expectations of his or her constituents? - Answer-home
style

What competing values must Representative Gaetz weigh when making legislative
decisions? - Answer-ideological opposition to government spending, but support for
spending in day-to-day governing

Which British political theorist is most associated with the notion of the trustee style of
representation? (You will need to do a search online to find the answer to this question.)
- Answer-Edmund Burke

Which form of representation is closest to direct democracy? - Answer-the delegate
model

Which form of representation would probably be most effective at ensuring that the
long-term best interests of the whole country are reflected in government policy? -
Answer-trustee representation

In a fast-moving international crisis where there is little time to act, which of these would
probably be the best model of representation? - Answer-the trustee model

When does the Texas Legislature meet? - Answer-every other year for 140 days

Who is arguably the most powerful official in the Texas Legislature? - Answer-the
lieutenant governor

Because the Texas legislature has an unusual meeting schedule, what must happen for
bills to have any chance of passage? - Answer-They must be introduced early in the
legislative session.

What type of committee is charged with reconciling the differences between two
versions of the same bill? - Answer-conference committees

Who is elected by all the voters of Texas? - Answer-the lieutenant governor

Which of the following is an accurate description of descriptive representation? -
Answer-It measures how closely members of the Texas Legislature resemble the state's
social or demographic identities.

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