DC Unit 2 Review Quiz

Who is the most powerful person in the House?

Which type of resolution is employed to address incidental or short term matters?

Who is the most powerful person in the Senate?

Publication that lists all the jobs that the President has available to appoint

person whose job it is to keep the press informed of the President's views and actions

Law that prohibits federal employees from participating in partisan politics

How often is the House reapportioned?

Which type of committee is used to make compromises on a bill?

What Resolution was passed to try to ensure that Congress would have control over War Powers?

Divided the Bureacracy into classified and unclassified positions to create jobs based on merit

When the President asks the senators from a state about judicial appointments to that state

What set the current order of presidential succession?

What is the 23rd Amendment about?

The Head of the Justice Department is called

Short period of time after election when President can claim he has the support of the people

Office that plans and writes the budget

The Presidential power to grant reprieves and pardons

What are passed to state an opinion on matters, change procedures, or address issues?

Which type of committee is a permanent feature of the Congress?

What is a ceremonial post usually given to the longest serving member of the majority party?

Voting to end debate is called

Advises the President on economic matters

These act as a business to produce a good or service

What is the 22nd Amendment about?

Which type of bills affect all citizens

Which type of committee is composed of both house and senate members?

Which type of committee is for a special purpose and is temporary?

States that President must get Cong. authorization within 60 days or he must pull troops out

Awarding jobs to supporters

Wasteful spending usually to benefit a congressman's home district or state is called

What is the 25th Amendment about?

Which case said districts couldn't be drawn based on race?

Cloture requires

Leaders of Executive Departments are usually called

Highest ranking member of the white house staff

What bureacratic group carries out vital functions that are not part of the Cabinet?

German sociologist who laid out pronciples of Bureaucracy

Which court case upheld the notion of "one person, one vote"?

A type of agency that watches over a particular sector of the economy or national interest

Which type of bills affect small groups, individuals, or places?

The 15 Executive Departments are part of the

moving on to other bills while one is being filibustered is called

What Resolution was passed authorizing LBJ to escalate the war in Vietnam?

Trying to stall a bill by endless debate in the senate is called

Which type of resolution address situations when the House and Senate must act together?

Interest groups, bureacratic agencies , and congressional committees form