Government unit 2 test review Questions and Answers Graded A+
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Government unit 2 test review Questions and Answers Graded A+
What is most likely to happen to a senate bill that is opposed by the leadership of the minority party?
It is likely to have holds placed on it before it reaches the Senate floor.
Which two individuals share the duty of presidin...
Government unit 2 test review Questions
and Answers Graded A+
What is most likely to happen to a senate bill that is opposed by the leadership of the
minority party? - answer It is likely to have holds placed on it before it reaches the
Senate floor.
Which two individuals share the duty of presiding over the Senate? - answer Vice
President and President Pro Tempore
Assists the Speaker in planning the legislative program of the party - answer majority
leader
Closed meeting used by members of a party to make decisions - answer caucus
Can effect a member's choice on which committees to serve - answer constituent
Number of members needed to take an official legislative action - answer quorum
persuades members of their party to vote a certain way on bills - answer whip
What would most likely be a result of increasing the concentration of power within the
office of the speaker of the house? - answer increase in unity within a party
Congress checks the power of the executive branch by its power to... - answer
Oversee executive agencies
According to the Supreme Court, what made the 2010 Affordable Care Act
constitutional? - answer under congresses taxing power
An election results in a Senate with 55 Democrats and 45 Republicans. On a committee
of 24 senators, how many would be Republicans? - answer 11
If a legislative assistant needed to obtain information about sugar cane production in
Brazil for an agricultural bill, which agency would she contact? - answer
Congressional Research Service (CRS)
What's the difference between the roles of personal and subcommittee staff? - answer
Personal staff supports 1 member, subcommittee staff supports all members from all
parties
, The difference between an appropriations bill and an authoritarian bill is that the first.... -
answer Proposes to authorize money and the second actually allocates the money
A way congress can encourage spending and business expansion is by... - answer
Reducing taxation and regulation
personal staffer who provides information to lawmaker about legislative issues - answer
Legislative Director
Provides information to lawmakers and staff from any published source - answer
Congressional Research Service
Administrative assistant who supervises staff and runs a lawmakers office - answer
chief of staff
studies, issues, and writes memos related to bills for a variety of members - answer
Subcommittee staff
One reason for increasing staff for the last 30 years - answer advanced technology
A candidate who runs for the U.S. House of Representatives must meet which of the
following qualifications? - answer Age 25, have to be U.S. citizen for 7 years, legal
resident of the state
What was the 1st interstate compact called - answer Port of New York authority
Political parties are most powerful in checking the power of different branches of the
government when - answer the government is divided
What are the reasons that the number of personal staff members has become five times
larger in the past 70 years? - answer Individual now ask for more help with
government matters
After a 2 year investigation into investment banks role in the economic meltdown of
2008, what did congress do? - answer Passed a major banking reform bill
To virtually eliminate the threat of a filibuster, the Senate would have to have a
minimum of how many members from one party? - answer 60
If no candidate in a presidential election gets a majority of the votes in the Electoral
College, what happens? - answer The house voted from the 3 candidates with the
most electoral votes
In what basic way can all people influence public policy? - answer Voting on a
regular basis
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