Congress
The Presidency
Congressional Committees
Bureaucracy
The Presidency Cont.
100
This chamber of Congress is designed to represent all states equally.
What is the Senate?
100
This term refers to politicians who are completing their tenure in office after being voted out.
What is a lame duck?
100
A permanent committee established in a legislature, usually focusing on a policy area.
What is a standing committee?
100
The Cuyahoga River caught fire dozens of times before the federal government stepped in. Discretionary and rule-making authority to implement policy are given to bureaucratic agencies, including this agency most responsible for stopping the pollution in that river./https://public-media.si-cdn.com/filer/e4/13/e4136a97-b510-432c-8089-15a4d7ba50f7/gettyimages-515303088.jpg)
What is the Environmental Protection Agency?
100
The advisory council for the president, consisting of the heads of the executive departments, the vice president, and a few other officials selected by the president.
What is the cabinet?
200
The constitutional reason Franklin Roosevelt reported to Congress on December 8, 1941, that Japan had attacked America.
What is Congress' power to declare war?
200
In addition to signing and vetoing, this is the third option afforded to presidents upon the presentment of bills from Congress.
What is the pocket veto?
200
A congressional committee created for a specific purpose.
What is a special/select committee?
200
Civil Service reform replaced the patronage system with this alternative way to staff government.
What is the merit system?
200
The right to keep communications confidential, especially if they relate to National Security.
What is executive privilege?
300
In 1919 America did not ratify the Treaty of Versailles because of a vote in this chamber of Congress.
What is the Senate?
300
In 1942, Franklin Roosevelt used this implied power to establish relocation centers and detail American citizens.
What is an executive order?
300
A committee comprised of members of both the House of Representatives and the Senate that is able to do things like conduct investigations and oversee the Library of Congress.
What is a joint committee?
300
This image reflects this relationship between regulators, legislators, and lobbyists.
What is an iron triangle?
300
The power to strike, or remove, specific items from a spending bill without vetoing the entire package that was declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court.
What is a line item veto?
400
In 2013, Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) spoke for 21 hours and 19 minutes in opposition to the Affordable Care Act per this loophole in Senate rules.
What is the filibuster?
400
In 1913, Woodrow Wilson began the modern tradition by which presidents use this annual message as a tool for agenda-setting.
What is the State of the Union address?
400
A committee appointed by the presiding officers of each chamber in order to adjust differences on a particular bill that has been passed by each, but in a different form.
What is a conference committee?
400
Jimmy Carter tried to cancel superfluous water projects early in his term as president, decrying them as this type of legislation.
What is pork barrell legislation?
400
The agency that serves as a clearinghouse for budgetary requests and management improvements for government agencies.
What is the Office of Management and Budget (OMB)?
500
The formal motion used to end or limit debate in the Senate.
What is cloture?
500
The justification for a single executive was outlined in this Federalist Paper.
What is Federalist #70?
500
This document, if signed by a majority of the House of Representatives' members, will pry a bill from committee and bring it to the floor for consideration.
What is a discharge petition?
500
Since Jimmy Carter has only served one term in office, this constitutional amendment guarantees he is eligible to run for one more term.
What is the 22nd Amendment?
500
A formal agreement between the U.S. president and the leaders of other nations that does not require senate approval.
What is an executive agreement?