Gov unit 2 test

Question 1

Powers of Congress

Answer 1

Fall into three broad areas: lawmaking, budgeting, and exercising oversight of the federal bureaucracy and other public officials. The most important power of Congress is its ability to pass laws in areas of national policy.

Question 2

Pork barrel spending:

Answer 2

Legislation that directs specific funds to projects within districts or states.

Question 3

logrolling:

Answer 3

trading of votes on legislation by members of Congress to get their earmarks passed into legislation.

Question 4

Partisan gerrymandering:

Answer 4

drawing of district boundaries into strange shapes to benefit a political party.

Question 5

Speaker of the house

Answer 5

the leader of the house of representatives, chosen by an election of it members

Question 6

Political action committees

Answer 6

organization that raises money for candidates and campaigns

Question 6

House majority leader:

Answer 6

the person who is second in command in the house

Question 7

Whip:

Answer 7

member of congress who is chosen by their party members, whos job is to ensure party unity and discipline

Question 8

Minority leader (seats)

Answer 8

the head of the party with the second highest number of seats in congress, chosen by the party’s members

Question 9

Senate majority leader

Answer 9

the person who had the most power in the senate and is the head of the party with the most seats

Question 10

Committee chairs:

Answer 10

leader of a congressional committee who had authority over the committees agenda

Question 11

Different powers

Answer 11

Ability to pass laws in area of national policy
Authorized to legislate in economic policy, national securtiy, foreign policy, and other policy areas
Sets the federal budget
Substantial power over policymaking in the budgeting process
Power to declare war and set the number of justices on the supreme court

Question 12

Use of filibuster

Answer 12

a tactic through which an individual senator may us the right of unlimited debate to delay a motion or postpone action on a piece of legislation

The placing holds and threats of a filibuster have become more common in a closely split and deeply divided Senate
Senators may not only threaten to filibuster a bill they object to
Individual senators may be reluctant to give up a power that can result in favors for their home States during negotiations to avoid a threatened filibuster
They may also hold up an unrelated vote or confirmation of a Presidential nominee to extract concessions, a process referred to as hostage-taking

Question 13

War Powers Resolution

Answer 13

a law passed over president Nixon’s veto that restricts the power of the president to maintain troops in combat for more than 60 days without congressional authorization

Question 14

Veto

Answer 14

a formal rejection by the president of a bill that has passed both houses of Congress

Question 15

Pocket veto

Answer 15

an informal veto caused when the president chooses not to sign a bill within 10 days, during a time when Congress has adjourned at the end of a session

Question 16

Foreign affairs

Answer 16

The president is responsible for guiding the US foreign policy and interacting with the heads of other nations

Question 17

Influence on policy

Answer 17

The bureaucracy works to carry out the responsibilities of the federal government and influences policy through implementation, the process of applying general policies to specific cases in order to put legislation into effect

Question 18

Iron Triangle

Answer 18

The policymaking relationship between congressional committees, the bureaucracy and interest groups.

Question 19

Supreme court

Answer 19

The highest level of the federal judiciary, which was established in Article III of the constitution and serves as the highest court in the nation.

Question 20

Nomination process

Answer 20

The President nominates someone for a vacancy on the Court and the Senate votes to confirm the nominee, which requires a simple majority. In this way, both the Executive and Legislative Branches of the federal government have a voice in the composition of the Supreme Court

Appointed by the president with advice and consent from the senate

Question 21

Judicial review

Answer 21

The authority of the Supreme Court to strike down a law or executive action if it conflicts with the Constitution

Question 22

Lifetime service

Answer 22

The constitution provides life tenure for judges under article III of the constitution

Question 23

Bureacrat

Answer 23

An official employed within a government bureaucracy.

Question 24

Issue network

Answer 24

webs of influence between interest groups, policymakers, and policy advocates.

Question 25

Gerrymandering

Answer 25

using redistricting to benefit a specific interest or group of voters

Question 26

Redistricting

Answer 26

states’ redrawing of boundaries of electoral districts following each census

Question 27

How does Congress relate to gerrymandering

Answer 27

Congress relates to gerrymandering because when population changes, representatives can change, which changes Congress