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1
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Which of the following is the biggest predictor of congressional oversight of the bureaucracy?

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Divided Government

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True or False: limitation riders put conditions on how a bureaucracy can spend money.

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False

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What is OIRA?

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Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs

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This law restricts federal employees’ partisan activities:

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Hatch Act

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What is the most common form of oversight?

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Nonstatutory controls

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Which area of policy affords more presidential power?

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Foreign policy

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True or False: Presidents can issue a line-item veto.

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False

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If a President does not sign a bill after 10 days and Congress is in session, what happens?

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The bill becomes law

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True or False: Executive Orders have the force of law.

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True

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True or False: A President’s decision to “go public” is risky.

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True

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Members of which chamber tend to be “generalists”?

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Senate

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Which of the following groups is a “typical” base of support for the Democratic Party?

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Younger voters

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This “type” of Member of Congress has a known reputation of supporting a piece of legislation.

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Early decider

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True or False: the two political parties have not become more ideologically sorted over time.

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False

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True or False: committee chairs play a larger organizing role than parties

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False

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16
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This type of committee meets to adjudicate differences between House- and Senate-passed versions of a bill.

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Conference committees

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17
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Which of the following describes the structure of committees in Congress’s earliest days?

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Standing committees did not exist

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18
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Which is the most powerful tool given to Congressional leaders?

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The power to schedule legislation

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19
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This term refers to the entirety of a party’s members in either the House or the Senate.

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Caucus

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Which of the following is not true about more senior Members of Congress?

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They travel home more than junior colleagues

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True or False: The Speaker of the House of Representatives must be a member of the House

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False

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22
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Which of the following is true?

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Party discipline is stronger in the House than the Senate

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True or False: Conditional party government spells out when rank-and-file Members of Congress delegate authority to their leaders.

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True

24
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This congressional position is in charge of enforcing party discipline:

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Whips

25
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True or False: one must live in the district that they represent.

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False

26
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True or False: Non-citizens do not count for purposes of seat allocation in Congress.

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False

27
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Why are there fewer women than men in elected office?

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They are less likely to be asked to run

28
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This type of representation is concerned with representation on issues.

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Substantive representation

29
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Compared to the general public, which of the following is not true of Congress?

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It is less religious

30
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True or False: PAC donations make up the majority of a campaign’s funding.

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True

31
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Match the region of the country to the party that traditionally performs best in that area:

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Coasts –> Democrats
South —> Republicans
Plains—-> Republicans
Midwest —-> Toss-up

32
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True or False: door-to-door, face-to-face campaigning is more effective than TV or radio ads.

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True

33
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True or False: corporations can spend an unlimited amount of money on campaigns.

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True

34
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True or False: most Members of Congress are primarily concerned with securing their own re-election.

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True

35
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Trustee

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members of congress are expected to use their own judgement

36
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Delegate

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Members should do exactly what their constituents want them to do on each issue

37
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Textbook Congress

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performing legislative and constitutional duties

38
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Representative assembly Congress

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The individual members of congress focused on building and maintaining political support

39
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True or False: Geographic space aided the development of representative democracy in the New World.

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True

40
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Homestyle

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The actions and behaviors of a member of Congress aimed at the constituents and intended to win the support and trust of the voters at home

41
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Multiple Referrals

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The act of sending a proposed piece of legislation to more than one committee in the same chamber.

42
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Omnibus Bill

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One very large bill that encompasses many separate bills.

43
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Committee Leader

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The leaders of different committees that set timelines for and head the various committees in the Senate and House. Sets agenda for individual committees; can bury policy - Chairpersons are always the majority party.

44
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majority-minority districts

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Drawing district boundaries to give a minority group a majority

45
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incumbency advantage

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advantage
institutional advantages held by those already in office who are trying to fend off challengers in an election

46
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Congressional Rules

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Procedures that are NOT spelled out in the Constitution, but are adopted by the House and Senate that govern operations during the lawmaking process

47
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Campaign Finance Regulations

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laws that govern political fundraising and/or spending

  • Buckley v. Valeo (1976): Campaign expenditures are free speech protected by 1st amendments
  • Citizens United V. FEC (2010) Corporations can donate unlimited amounts to campaigns
48
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Party Leadership

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members of the house and senate who are chosen by the democratic or republican caucus in each chamber to represent the partys interest in that chamber and who give some central direction to the chambers work

49
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conditional party government

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The theory that lawmakers from the same party will cooperate to develop policy proposals.

50
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Statuatory interpretation

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Judges construe meaning of the vague language embedded in laws

‘When the court misinterprets a statute, congress can amend or clarify the law

51
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Constitutiona interpretation

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Occurs when federal or state laws are challenged as violating the us constitution

Congress can more easily reassert itself vis-a-vis the court when dealing with statutory, rather than constitutional, interpretation

52
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Federalism

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When arguments between states and the federal gov, the SC ultimately determines power possessed by each

53
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There are 3 main components to the federal court system

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District courts

Courts of appeals

Supreme courts

(lowest power to highest)

54
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Disctrict courts

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Federal trial courts

Lowest level

Handle civil matters, bankruptcy hearings, and federal criminal cases

Do most work of federal courts

Goal is norm enforcement- applying relatively settled law to disputes

Structure

Each state has ar least one district court , bigger states have more

Lifetime appointments and magistrate judges , which serve for a fixed term and assist lifetime judges with caseload

55
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Court appeals

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Smaller in number than district courts

Organized in eleven regional circuits

Plus a circuit for dc and an overall federal circuit that has nationwide, specialized juridiction

Latter ddeals w administrative agency ruligns and patent cadses

Staffed by circuit judges

Next up after district courts

13 districts

Hear oral arguments that appeal a district courts ruling

Cases are decided by three-judge panels

Occasionally will be reviewed by a larger number of circuit judges sititng – en banc

En banc = is not the norm

	main job is error correction , reviewing lower courtscases and checking them
56
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Supreme courts

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If parties are unhappy with an outcome at the appelate level, they can seek a supreme court review of their cases

  • important – sc review is almost NEVERz automatic

Sc has discretion over the cases it hears

Sc hears and decides approximately 1% of cases in which a review is requested

Supreme court hears cases that focus on important questions of constitutional and statutory interpretation

Sc rarely hears a case just to overturn a lower courts ruling

Sc cares abt its policy making role I

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