Chapter 5

Question 1

The Constitution grants to congress all _______.

Answer 1

Legislative powers.

Question 2

What is congress composed of?

Answer 2

The Senate and House of Representatives.

Question 3

What is the lower house of Congress?

Answer 3

House of Representatives.

Question 4

What is the upper house of Congress?

Answer 4

The Senate.

Question 5

Drawing district boundaries so it purposely favors the party in power.

Answer 5

Gerrymandering.

Question 6

The counting of the number of people in a specific area.

Answer 6

Apportionment.

Question 7

Amendment that stated that senators are no longer selected by state legislatures.

Answer 7

17th Amendment.

Question 8

The Tuesday after the first Monday in November in even numbered years is what day.

Answer 8

General Election Day.

Question 9

How long is a term in the House?

Answer 9

Two years.

Question 10

How long is a term in the Senate?

Answer 10

Six years.

Question 11

Three qualifications for serving in each house of Congress?

Answer 11

Age, citizenship, and state residency.

Question 12

Three main leaders of congress.

Answer 12

Speaker of the house, president of the Senate, and president pro tempore.

Question 13

Best is the best predictor of how a member of Congress will vote on a particular issue?

Answer 13

Party affiliation.

Question 14

Name some duties of the Speaker of the House.

Answer 14

Announcing the order of business, putting questions to a vote, reporting the vote and deciding points of order.

Question 15

The great circular hall on the Capitols dome.

Answer 15

Rotunda.

Question 16

The majority and minority _______ lead their party in their house.

Answer 16

Floor leaders.

Question 17

What assist the floor leader in his responsibilities

Answer 17

Whip.

Question 18

A private meeting of political party members to decide on policy or to chose their party leaders.

Answer 18

A caucus.

Question 19

System used by the party caucuses in assigning committee or subcommittee chairs.

Answer 19

Seniority system.

Question 20

What is a bill?

Answer 20

A proposed new law.

Question 21

What are public bills applied to?

Answer 21

The nation at large.

Question 22

What are private bills applied to?

Answer 22

Applied only to individual citizens or groups of people.

Question 23

What is the purpose of a congressional committees?

Answer 23

To screen out bills that the committee does not favor.

Question 24

What does it mean to pigeon hole a bill?

Answer 24

A bill is put aside and purposely forgotten.

Question 25

A petition that gets a bill out of the committee before they can vote on it.

Answer 25

Discharge petition.

Question 26

An attempt to kill a bill by stalling the vote on it.

Answer 26

Filibuster.

Question 27

Name 3 ways a congressional vote may be taken.

Answer 27

Voice vote, standing vote, or a roll-call vote.

Question 28

What is a way to prevent filibuster, and what does it do?

Answer 28

Cloture Rule limits each senator a max. of one hour to speak on a bill.

Question 29

What happens if a president doesn’t sign a bill?

Answer 29

it will be passed as law within 10 days if congress is still adjourned. if not, the bill is considered dead.

Question 30

When the entire house temporarily sits as one large committee.

Answer 30

Committee of the Whole.

Question 31

A temporary committee composed of both houses for the purpose of working out a compromise on a bill.

Answer 31

Conference committee.

Question 32

What fraction of the vote must congress have to override a presidential veto?

Answer 32

Two-thirds majority.

Question 33

What is Congress forbidding the implementations of an agency’s policy without the President’s consent.

Answer 33

Legislative veto.

Question 34

Two fold purpose of a representative in the legislative process.

Answer 34

To protect their constituency from harmful legislation, and to promote beneficial legislation.

Question 35

What is the most important quality for a leader to possess?

Answer 35

Character.

Question 36

Contrast the trustee view of representation with the delegate view.

Answer 36

Representative votes according to his personal judgement. Delegates vote according to the desires of his constituency.

Question 37

What form of government does the constitution require every state to possess?

Answer 37

Republican form of government.

Question 38

The congressional monitoring of the bureaucracy to make sure that the laws are being faithfully executed.

Answer 38

Oversight.

Question 39

Powers given explicitly to Congress in Clauses 1-17, Article I, Section 8.

Answer 39

Expressed powers.

Question 40

Powers which are not specifically stated in the constitution.

Answer 40

Implied powers.

Question 41

Granting a wide range of powers to Congress through the constitution.

Answer 41

Delegated powers.

Question 42

Gives Congress the authority to put into operation both expressed and implied powers.

Answer 42

Necessary and proper clause.

Question 43

What are the special powers of the house of representative.?

Answer 43

Originating all revenue bills, selecting a president from top three candidates, and conferring charges of impeachment against a federal official.

Question 44

What are special powers of the senate?

Answer 44

Choosing a vice president from the top two candidates, approving all presidential appointments, and approving all presidential treaties.

Question 45

Describe the impeachment process.

Answer 45

House votes on impeachment > “articles of impeachment” are drafted > house appoints managers who present the case to Senate > Senate votes.

Question 46

Name two presidents who have been impeached.

Answer 46

Andrew Johnson, and Bill Clinton.

Question 47

List some powers denied to Congress.

Answer 47

Passing bills attainder, granting titles of nobility, passing ex post facto laws.

Question 48

Observed whenever a President nominates a federal officer who is to serve in a particular state.

Answer 48

Senatorial courtesy.

Question 49

Formally accusing a federal official of some wrongdoing.

Answer 49

Impeachment.