Last Test Review

Question 0

Examples of independent executive agencies

Answer 0

NASA, The federal reserve, NSF, etc

Question 1

Examples of govt corporations

Answer 1

AmTrak, united states postal service

Question 2

Regulation

Answer 2

Govt changes private sector practices

Question 3

Pendleton Service Act

Answer 3

Civil service exams

Question 4

Department of the interior

Answer 4

Controls natural resources and national parks

Question 5

Plum book

Answer 5

Book of the top bureaucratic organizations

Question 6

Oversees stock market

Answer 6

Securities and exchanges commissiob

Question 7

Oversees biggest administration in the USA

Answer 7

Social securities adminstration

Question 8

Hatch act

Answer 8

Bureaucracy employees can’t work in govt

Question 9

President who didn’t get voted in as president or vice president

Answer 9

Gerald Ford

Question 10

House whips

Answer 10

Hoyer and McCarthy

Question 11

Clinton v New York

Answer 11

No line item veto for president

Question 12

1 term presidents

Answer 12

Quincy Adams, JFK

Question 13

Conference committee

Answer 13

For when house and senate have different versions of a bill

Question 14

Amount needed in either chamber to operate

Answer 14

Quorum - 1/2 of total

Question 15

Select committee

Answer 15

Investigates

Question 16

Majority leader

Answer 16

Harry Reid

Question 17

Minority leader

Answer 17

Mitch McConnell

Question 18

Why is it harder to run for senate than house?

Answer 18

• Visible challengers
• must appeal to whole state
• less personal contact
• costs more
• challengers have more money

Question 19

16th amendment

Answer 19

Graduated income tax

Question 20

Writ of cert

Answer 20

To go to higher court