Chapter 14 Vocabulary Quiz 2

Question 1

Uncontrollable Expenditures

Answer 1

Expenditures that are determined by how many eligible beneficiaries there are for a program or by previous obligations of the government

Question 2

Entitlements

Answer 2

Policies to which congress has obligated itself to pay x level of benefits to y number of recipients.

Question 3

House Ways and Means Committee

Answer 3

The House of Representatives that writes tax codes subject to Congress as a whole along with the Senate Finance Committee.

Question 4

State Finance Committee

Answer 4

The Senate committee that writes tax codes subject to Congress as a whole along with the House Ways and Means Committee.

Question 5

Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974

Answer 5

An Act formed to improve the budgetary process.

Question 6

Congressional Budget Office

Answer 6

Advises Congress on the probably consequences on their decisions forecast revenues and counter weight to the president’s office of Management and Budget

Question 7

Budget Resolution

Answer 7

A resolution binding congress to a total expenditures level supposedly the bottom line of all federal spending of all programs

Question 8

Reconciliation

Answer 8

A congressional process through which program authorizations are revised to achieve required savings.

Question 9

Appropriations Bill

Answer 9

An Act of Congress that funds programs within limits established by authorized bills.

Question 10

Continuing Relations

Answer 10

Congress cannot reach agreement and pass appropriation bills, which allows agencies to spend at the level as previous years

Question 11

Authorizations Bill

Answer 11

An act of congress that established, continues or changes a discretionary government program or entitlement. It specifies program goals and maximum expenditures.