EXAM 3

Question 1

—- became speaker of the house in 2018

Answer 1

Nancy Pelosi

Question 2

Iron triangle includes

Answer 2

Interest group representatives
legislators
government administrators

Question 3

What is it that makes congress two chambered

Answer 3

It has two houses: senate and house of representative

Question 4

The __________ provides Congress with essential analysis of the economy and the economic impact of legislation.

Answer 4

Congressional budget office

Question 5

Which of the following do representatives who see themselves in a delegate role do?

Answer 5

Vote for their constituents desires

Question 6

Members of both the house and senate form permanent

Answer 6

Joint committees

Question 7

__________ is the idea of separate institutions sharing some powers in the American system of government.

Answer 7

Checks and balances

Question 8

The practice of getting national government spending in a member’s district is known as

Answer 8

Pork barrel politics

Question 9

The single most dominant individual in the Senate is the __________.

Answer 9

Majority leader

Question 10

__________ are most responsible for developing the legislation that comes from committees.

Answer 10

Committee staffers

Question 11

Members of Congress must cultivate the support and trust of __________ in order to get re-elected.

Answer 11

Their constituents

Question 12

The filibuster is a stalling tactic in the Senate.

Answer 12

True

Question 13

What is the purpose of a conference committee?

Answer 13

Reconcile house and senate bills

Question 14

The _____ presides over the Senate.

Answer 14

Vice president

Question 15

What is it called when members of Congress exchange votes to help each other?

Answer 15

Logrolling

Question 16

The __________ must decide the winner of a presidential election if no candidate wins a majority of the electoral votes.

Answer 16

House of representatives

Question 17

A president must meet all EXCEPT which of the following requirements?

Answer 17

Be resident of the district of columbia

Question 18

Which constitutional amendment made it unconstitutional to prevent a person from voting based on race?

Answer 18

Fifteenth

Question 19

Which of the following can be said about the Electoral College?

Answer 19

It includes 538 electors

Question 20

The pool of money collected from a $3 check-off on the federal income tax form for presidential campaign funding is called the __________.

Answer 20

Presidential election campaign fund

Question 21

Which amendment provided women the right to vote?

Answer 21

Nineteenth Amendment

Question 22

When or how is the choice of a running mate usually made?

Answer 22

To balance the ticket geographically or ideologically

Question 23

Jim Crow laws were created to do which of the following?

Answer 23

Limit African American voting

Question 24

The mainspring issue driving most electoral decisions seems to be _________ issues.

Answer 24

economic

Question 25

The voting age was reduced from twenty-one to eighteen by the __________.

Answer 25

Twenty sixth amendment

Question 26

Experts who are hired by political candidates to give advice on the use of mass media are called media __________.

Answer 26

consultants

Question 27

Candidates for president try to get as much _____ as possible during the campaign.

Answer 27

free television time

Question 28

__________ was the first state or territory to grant women the right to vote.

Answer 28

Wyoming

Question 29

The two social characteristics with the strongest relation to voting are __________ and _________.

Answer 29

age; education

Question 30

__________ unprecedented four elections to the presidency prompted the Twenty-second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

Answer 30

Franklin Roosevelt’s

Question 31

__________ is the type of relationship usually engaged in by the president and the media.

Answer 31

love-hate

Question 32

What is the ultimate weapon wielded by Congress in the ongoing struggle with the president?

Answer 32

Presidential impeachment and removal from office

Question 33

Which of the following is TRUE of presidential appointments?

Answer 33

The senate must confirm many of those appointments

Question 34

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.

Answer 34

Stewardship

Question 35

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 __________.

Answer 35

detention camps

Question 36

Executive privilege is which of the following?

Answer 36

It is the right of the president to refuse information requested by congress or the courts

Question 37

The ongoing contest between the president and the media is generally seen as being __________.

Answer 37

At a standoff

Question 38

By what authority does the Speaker follow the vice president in the line of succession for the presidency?

Answer 38

Presidential Succession act of 1947

Question 39

The __________ prevents the president from committing troops to combat for longer than sixty days.

Answer 39

War powers resolution

Question 40

Who or what entity does a person appointed to the White House staff have loyalty to?

Answer 40

The president who appointed them

Question 41

Kamala Harris is our first woman vice president.

Answer 41

True

Question 42

Cabinet secretaries, undersecretaries, administrators and deputies of the various independent agencies make up the __________.

Answer 42

President’s administration

Question 43

How many Supreme Court seats did President Trump fill during his one term in office?

Answer 43

3

Question 44

__________ interpretation of presidential powers is the constitutional theory of the presidency.

Answer 44

A narrow

Question 45

President Nixon attempted to rely on his __________ to prevent members of his administration from testifying during the Watergate investigation.

Answer 45

Power of executive privilege