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Budget
Grab Bag
Congress
Who's Who
Odds and Ends
100
Executive branch agency charged with making the yearly federal budget.
What is the Office of Management and Budget?
100
Categorical grants awarded on the basis of competitive applications.
What are project grants?
100
A proposed law.
What is a bill?
100
Speaker of the House
Who is John Boehner?
100
Money received by the government in any given year.
What are revenues?
200
Committee charged with originating all revenue bills.
What is the House Ways and Means Committee?
200
Money that was raised by political parties for voter registration and other efforts at the grass-roots level.
What is soft money?
200
!DAILY DOUBLE! Committee with members from both houses that irons out differences between House and Senate versions of the same bill.
What is a conference committee?
200
Senate Majority Leader.
Who is Harry Reid?
200
They argued for the ratification of the Constitution.
Who were the Federalists?
300
!DAILY DOUBLE! Step in the budget process through which program authorizations are revised to achieve required savings.
What is reconciliation?
300
Process whereby parties form new support coalitions that endure for a long time.
What is party realignment?
300
The title given to the day to day leader in the Senate.
What is Senate Majority Leader?
300
House Majority Whip.
Who is Kevin McCarthy?
300
The legal threshold for a search conducted by a school administrator on school grounds.
What is reasonable suspicion?
400
Spending for these programs is mandatory since appropriations are established by congressional rules and legislation.
What are entitlement programs?
400
In 1824 it defined the power of the commerce clause.
What is Gibbons v. Ogden?
400
They win about 90% of all congressional elections.
Who are incumbents?
400
Secretary of State.
Who is John Kerry?
400
!DAILY DOUBLE! Theory that judges should make bolder policy decisons to alleviate pressing needs or injustices in a society.
What is judicial activism?
500
Act passed in 1974 designed to reform the budget process by creating a fixed budget calendar and a budget committee in each house of Congress.
What is Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974?
500
!DAILY DOUBLE! A party's statement of its goals and policies for the next four years.
What is a party platform?
500
A committee appointed for a specific purpose.
What is a select committee?
500
!DAILY DOUBLE! Secretary of Homeland Security.
Who is Janet Napolitano?
500
A means of selecting policymakers and of organizing government so that policy represents and responds to the public's preferences.
What is democracy?