Exam 11: The Congress

Which of the following is an example of an entitlement program?

Which of the following statements is true of the advice and consent powers of the Senate?

Which of the following is an oversight body for the U.S. Congress?

Which of the following is a requirement that must be met by a person in order to be elected to the Senate?

A _____ refers to a Congress consisting of two chambers.

The District of Columbia, American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, and the U.S. Virgin Islands all send _____ to the House of Representatives.

Appropriations must never exceed the authorized amounts, but they can be less.

Where a party's voters are scarce, the boundaries of a district can be drawn to include as many of the party's voters as possible. This is a characteristic of _____.

The _____ of the House of Representatives is elected by the majority-party caucus to act as spokesperson for the party and to keep the party together.

If, by choosing to vote, the Speaker of the House creates a tie, _____.

Under the__________view, a legislator should act according to her or his conscience and perception of national needs.

The Constitution provides for the__________of House seats among the states on the basis of their respective populations.

Which of the following is true of the senatorial holds?

If the president decides to veto a bill, Congress cannot get the bill enacted into law.

When Congress is unable to pass a complete budget by the beginning of the fiscal year, it usually passes _____, which enable the executive agencies to keep on doing whatever they were doing the previous year with the same amount of funding.

The Homeland Security Committee is an example of a _____ in Congress.

Discuss the tasks undertaken by the majority leader and the minority leader of the House of Representatives.

Which of the following statements is true of a congressional committee?

Under Article I, Section 4, of the Constitution,__________control the "Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives."

Congress exercises jurisdiction over the impeachment of _____.