Exam #3 Flashcards
The person chosen by each party to help congressional leaders stay informed about what party members are thinking, and organizing voting on legislative matters, is called a ______________.
whip
minority leader
speaker
majority leader
whip
A filibuster can only be staged in which of the two houses of Congress?
the Senate
the House of Representatives
the Senate
Which of the following powers of the President is shared with the Senate?
appointment of ambassadors, judges and high officials
Commander in chief
receive ambassadors from foreign countries
appointment of officials to lesser offices
appointment of ambassadors, judges and high officials
True or False: The Supreme Court can only hear cases on appeal from lower federal courts.
True
False
False
Cases involving different states, which may be heard by federal courts, are called
political question cases
diversity cases
equity cases
federal issue cases
diversity cases
The presiding officer in the House of Representatives is known by the title of
President
Vice-Chair
Speaker
President pro tempore
Speaker
Conference committees, like joint committees, are composed of
members of both houses
only cabinet officials
only senators
only representatives
members of both houses
Concurrent resolutions
are passed by both houses and signed by the President
must be argued before the Supreme Court before passage
are passed by only one house of Congress
are passed by both houses of Congress
are passed by both houses of Congress
When the President of the United States believes a bill is inappropriate, he may refuse to sign it, and instead send it back to Congress with his objections. This is called
a dissent
a veto
none of the above
a pocket veto
a veto
If Congress adjourns before the President has signed a bill (within a 10 day period after he has received it), the bill is considered
to have been pocket vetoed
approved
none of the above
to become law without his signature
to have been pocket vetoed
If Congress votes by a 2/3 majority in each house to approve a bill previously disallowed by the President, it has
“overridden a presidential veto”
“overturned a presidential disapproval”
“remanded a bill for further study”
“reversed an executive order”
“overridden a presidential veto”
If the majority party in the Senate has at least sixty members, it can override filibusters by passing
reversals
overriders
adjournments
cloture motions
cloture motions
The senior member of a congressional committee, on the minority side, is called the
ranking member
junior
vice-chair
chairman
ranking member
Because the Congress is composed of two houses, it is referred to as
tricameral
none of the above
bicameral
unicameral
bicameral
The President and his closest advisors work out of what part of the White House?
the Official Residence
the East Wing
the West Wing
none of the above
the West Wing
What constitutional amendment provides that the President can only be elected twice?
22nd
12th
17th
35th
22nd
The official who is often the “gatekeeper” for the President in the White House Office is the
permanent secretary
deputy assistant
Vice President
chief of staff
chief of staff
Those advisory councils that work out of nearby buildings and provide policy recommendations to the President are part of the
FBI
White House Office
Office of Personnel Management
Executive Office of the President
Executive Office of the President
The “heads of departments” within the federal government are commonly referred to as the President’s
Cabinet
Commissariat
Secretariat
Chiefs
Cabinet
Appointments made to federal jobs based on party loyalty to elected officials are made in accordance with the
merit system
spoils system
neither of the above
spoils system
The Civil Service Reform Act of 1883 is commonly called the
Garfield Act
Riot Act
Pendleton Act
Hayes Act
Pendleton Act
In the House, bills are introduced by
announcing them verbally
sending them to the President
sending them to the Majority Leader
placing them in the hopper
placing them in the hopper
Appointments made on the basis of a personal request for an individual to hold a specialized position within the government are called
Schedule A appointments
patronage jobs
Schedule D appointments
name-request positions
name-request positions
When agencies complete their initial task and then seek to expand their mission, they are engaging in
unsportsmanlike conduct
red tape
duplication
bureaucratic imperialism
bureaucratic imperialism
When two or more agencies are seeking to accomplish the same goal, this is known as the bureaucratic pathology of
red tape
imperialism
working at cross-purposes
bureaucratic duplication
bureaucratic duplication
When bureaucracies create very technical procedures for accomplishing simple tasks it is said that they create…
Goldbergisms
more efficiency
Rubisms
red tape
red tape
When four members of the Supreme Court wish to grant a petition for a case, they will issue what document to the lower court as an order for the record of the case to be sent up?
a writ of corpus delicti
a writ of mandamus
a writ of habeas corpus
a writ of certiorari
a writ of certiorari
A justice who disapproves of the decision in a case and the legal reasoning behind that decision, will normally write a contrary opinion, which is referred to as a
dissent
reversal
veto
concurrence
dissent
Members of the House of Representatives are usually referred to as
Senators
Delegates
Congressmen
Magistrates
Congressmen
A permanent committee in the House or Senate which handles bills proposed in specific areas of legislation is called a
special committee
standing committee
none of the above
conference committee
standing committee
When the full House turns itself into a committee, it is known as
the Standing Committee
the Committee of the Whole
the Select Committee
the Joint Committee
the Committee of the Whole
When a Standing Committee goes through a bill line by line to determine its final language, it is going through a process called
bluepenciling
pigeonholding
filibustering
markup
markup
May amendments be proposed to a bill under an Open Rule?
Yes
No
Yes
Pigeonholing refers to
the practice of creating “pork barrel” projects for constituents
the ability of a powerful leader to attach whatever he or she wants to a bill
none of the above
the ability of a chairman to kill a bill in committee by refusing to discuss it
the ability of a chairman to kill a bill in committee by refusing to discuss it
