Chapter 2: Congress Flashcards

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Congressional oversight

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  • 2019- Congress declined funding of the Trump wall
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Democratic Party Caucus (3)

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  • Congressional Progressive Caucus (most left-leaning faction of the Democratic party)
  • New Democrat Coalition (pro-business and moderate approach to fiscal matters but socially liberal)
  • Blue Dog Coalition (fiscally and socially conservative, representing the centre-right in the Democratic Party)
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Republican Party Caucus

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Republican Freedom Caucus (fiscal conservatism)

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example of an emergency act passed by Congress

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CARES Act 2020

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Impeachment (2)

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  • Donald Trump (2019) charges of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress
  • Trump (2021) impeachment on a charge of incitement of insurrection
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Congress representation (3)

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  • 23% of 117th Congress are POC
  • 27% of 117th Congress are women
  • 94% of 117th Congress are college educated
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Approval rating

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2023- Congress approval rating= 23%

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Congress gov. shut down

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2018-2019, longest government shutdown (35 days). Occurred as Trump and Congress could not agree on an appropriations bills- cost US economy $11 billion

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Lack of bipartisanship

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After Orlando 2016, failure to legislate gun control due to a lack of bipartisan support

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Example of Bipartisanship legislation

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Biden 2022 gun safety “Bipartisan Safer Communities Act 2022”

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Congressional divisions in the House: (policy)

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  • Pro-Palestinian Democrats- Ilhan Omar, Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez
  • Pro-Israeli Democrats- Brad Sherman
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Democrat with highest disapproval ratings

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Democrat Senator with highest DISAPPROVAL rate- Joe Manchin (53%)

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Senator with highest disapproval ratings

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Mitch McConnel (64%)

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2018 midterms key statistics

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  • AOC- only $300,000 received in funding, won 78% of NYC 14th districts vote
  • Joseph Crowley received over $3 million in funding and lost
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Black Caucus

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Congressional Black Caucus- 56 members, representing 82 million Americans

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bipartisan legislation 2023

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Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023

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Attempts to remove the Filibuster

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2022- The Democratic controlled Senate voted to change the filibuster. The vote, however, failed with democrats such as Joe Manchin dissenting from democrats

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Filibuster example:

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2013- Ted Cruz, 21 hour filibuster, trying to block extensions to Obamacare

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Power of the purse EPA

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2018 -Trump requested that the budget for the EPA be cut by ⅓ but the republican house voted to cut it by only 6% instead