EXAM 3 Flashcards
—- became speaker of the house in 2018
Nancy Pelosi
Iron triangle includes
Interest group representatives
legislators
government administrators
What is it that makes congress two chambered
It has two houses: senate and house of representative
The __________ provides Congress with essential analysis of the economy and the economic impact of legislation.
Congressional budget office
Which of the following do representatives who see themselves in a delegate role do?
Vote for their constituents desires
Members of both the house and senate form permanent
Joint committees
__________ is the idea of separate institutions sharing some powers in the American system of government.
Checks and balances
The practice of getting national government spending in a member’s district is known as
Pork barrel politics
The single most dominant individual in the Senate is the __________.
Majority leader
__________ are most responsible for developing the legislation that comes from committees.
Committee staffers
Members of Congress must cultivate the support and trust of __________ in order to get re-elected.
Their constituents
The filibuster is a stalling tactic in the Senate.
True
What is the purpose of a conference committee?
Reconcile house and senate bills
The _____ presides over the Senate.
Vice president
What is it called when members of Congress exchange votes to help each other?
Logrolling
The __________ must decide the winner of a presidential election if no candidate wins a majority of the electoral votes.
House of representatives
A president must meet all EXCEPT which of the following requirements?
Be resident of the district of columbia
Which constitutional amendment made it unconstitutional to prevent a person from voting based on race?
Fifteenth
Which of the following can be said about the Electoral College?
It includes 538 electors
The pool of money collected from a $3 check-off on the federal income tax form for presidential campaign funding is called the __________.
Presidential election campaign fund
Which amendment provided women the right to vote?
Nineteenth Amendment
When or how is the choice of a running mate usually made?
To balance the ticket geographically or ideologically
Jim Crow laws were created to do which of the following?
Limit African American voting
The mainspring issue driving most electoral decisions seems to be _________ issues.
economic
The voting age was reduced from twenty-one to eighteen by the __________.
Twenty sixth amendment
Experts who are hired by political candidates to give advice on the use of mass media are called media __________.
consultants
Candidates for president try to get as much _____ as possible during the campaign.
free television time
__________ was the first state or territory to grant women the right to vote.
Wyoming
The two social characteristics with the strongest relation to voting are __________ and _________.
age; education
__________ unprecedented four elections to the presidency prompted the Twenty-second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
Franklin Roosevelt’s
__________ is the type of relationship usually engaged in by the president and the media.
love-hate
What is the ultimate weapon wielded by Congress in the ongoing struggle with the president?
Presidential impeachment and removal from office
Which of the following is TRUE of presidential appointments?
The senate must confirm many of those appointments
The idea that presidents may undertake any act as long as it is NOT prohibited by a specific provision of the Constitution or statutory law is known as the __________ theory.
Stewardship
Early in 1942, many persons of Japanese descent living on the Pacific Coast of the United States were ordered by President Franklin Roosevelt to be removed to __________.
detention camps
Executive privilege is which of the following?
It is the right of the president to refuse information requested by congress or the courts
The ongoing contest between the president and the media is generally seen as being __________.
At a standoff
By what authority does the Speaker follow the vice president in the line of succession for the presidency?
Presidential Succession act of 1947
The __________ prevents the president from committing troops to combat for longer than sixty days.
War powers resolution
Who or what entity does a person appointed to the White House staff have loyalty to?
The president who appointed them
Kamala Harris is our first woman vice president.
True
Cabinet secretaries, undersecretaries, administrators and deputies of the various independent agencies make up the __________.
President’s administration
How many Supreme Court seats did President Trump fill during his one term in office?
3
__________ interpretation of presidential powers is the constitutional theory of the presidency.
A narrow
President Nixon attempted to rely on his __________ to prevent members of his administration from testifying during the Watergate investigation.
Power of executive privilege
