FRQs
Budget
Senate and House
Vocabulary 1
Vocabulary 2
200
The best sample topic for any FRQ practice
200
Accounts for about half of the federal budget for the United States
What is mandatory spending?
200
This House of Congress has 435 members
What is the House of Representatives?
200
A tactic used by senators to block a bill by continuing to hold the floor and speak until the bill is dead.
What is a filibuster?
200
An alliance of political groups pursuing a common goal.
What is a coalition?
400
Type of FRQ where you examine a chart or graph and respond to prompts
What is a quantitative analysis FRQ?
400
A portion of the federal budget subject to annual changes dependent on the President and Congress
What is discretionary spending?
400
This house of Congress ratifies treaties
What is the Senate?
400
The allocation of the number of representatives each state has in the House of Representatives.
What is apportionment?
400
A district in which a racial minority group or groups comprise a majority of the district's total population
What is a majority-minority district?
600
Type of FRQ where you take a position and provide evidence from a required document (or two) for support
What is an argumentative FRQ?
600
The main source of government revenue
What are income taxes?
600
This House of Congress is where revenue bills must originate
What is the House of Representatives?
600
A committee of the House on which all representatives serve in order to consider the details of a proposal.
What is a committee of the whole?
600
A member of Congress who takes into account the views of their constituents and use their own judgment to decide how to vote.
What is a trustee voting model?
800
Type of FRQ where you apply what you learned in class to a scenario you are not expected to know
What is a concept application FRQ?
800
If a budget is not agreed on, this can be used to prevent a government shutdown
What is a continuing resolution (CR)?
800
What is trial in the Senate?
800
A procedural rule that permits floor amendments within the overall time allocated to the bill.
What is an open rule?
800
A member of Congress who always follows their constituents’ voting preferences.
What is a delegate voting model?
1000
Best way to make a 3 a 4 on a SCOTUS comparison FRQ
Discuss the background of the required case!
1000
Provides Congress with budget-related information, reports on fiscal, budgetary, and programmatic issues, and analyses of budget policy options, costs, and effects.
What is the Congressional Budget Office (CBO)?
1000
This House of Congress is less formal with no time limit on debate - can delay votes on a bill through various procedures like holds
What is the Senate?
1000
The process of amending and changing a bill
What is a mark-up?
1000
A member of Congress who acts as a representative on issues that their constituents care about, and as a trustee on issues that their constituents don’t care about.
What is a politico voting model?