Exam 11: The Congress

A) Article I, Section 6
B) Article I, Section 2
C) Article I, Section 9
D) Article II, Section 4
E) Article III, Section 6

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A) The House will spend much more time on a bill on the floor than the Senate.
B) The Senate has more rules in order to limit discussion of possible legislation.
C) A greater number of formal rules are needed to govern activity in the House.
D) House members must sit on more committees than senators.
E) A constitutional amendment has been introduced to increase the size of the Senate and reduce the size of the House.

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When a budget is not passed on time, it ...

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A) The allocation of the seats in the House to each state after each census
B) The redrawing of district boundaries within each state to ensure equal district populations
C) A court order to hold new elections because of voting irregularities
D) Altering a legislative formula that apportions spending among the states
E) Normally a bipartisan exercise

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A) Agenda setting
B) Divided government
C) A joint resolution
D) A gerrymander
E) A markup

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A) Media experts
B) Staff who draft legislation
C) Those who do casework for the congressperson
D) Those who work in the congressperson's district offices
E) All of these are correct.

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A) An attempt to persuade others to vote for a bill in return for a favor at a later date
B) A technique used to get blocks of House members to support a bill
C) A practice used in the House to force a standing committee to release a bill
D) An attempt to prevent the passage of a bill through the use of unlimited debate
E) A method used by the Speaker of the House to promote a majority party's legislation

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A) Maximize a political party's chances of winning seats in the state legislatures and Congress
B) Confuse voters about their polling location or the candidates on their ballot
C) Decrease the voting power of undecided voters in national elections
D) Increase voter turnout
E) Eliminate the opportunity for gerrymandering to occur

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A) Hurricane effect
B) Coattail effect
C) Franking effect
D) Trustee effect
E) Logrolling

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A) Gerrymandered
B) Malapportioned
C) Majority-minority
D) Nonpartisan
E) Packed

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A) The president pro tempore
B) The Senate majority leader
C) The vice president
D) The president
E) The Senate minority leader

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A) Considered illegal to alter the makeup of Congress
B) Practiced at both the state and national levels
C) Raised and reviewed in court
D) Practiced multiple times in a single year
E) Rejected by the voters

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A) Members of Congress to inform their constituents of their votes on appropriations measures
B) The president to spend the funds that Congress has appropriated
C) A balanced budget to be created by the 1993 fiscal year
D) The president to present the executive budget
E) Budgets to receive the approval of the American people before they go into effect

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A) Office of Technology Assessment
B) Congressional Research Service
C) General Accountability Office
D) Congressional Bureau of Investigation
E) Congressional Budget Office

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A) 24 months
B) 18 months
C) 15 months
D) 12 months
E) 6 months

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