US Revision Day

What is the practice of voting for different parties in the same election known as?

According to whom is the vice presidency "not worth a bucket of warm piss"?

Who was the first major presidential candidate to refuse matching funds?

What majority is required to overturn a veto?

According to Opensecrets.org, in 2016 top spending lobbyists Akin, Gump et al spent how much?

Gerrymandering is achieved by what name given to the movement of people?

What did this man tell George Bush?

How many members of Congress are there?

Who famously filed an amicus brief in Fisher v Texas?

?? v Kerry reaffirmed the Executive's control over recognition of states.

Chief Justice Roberts, 2007: "The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to:"

In 2013, Obama asked Congress' approval to launch military operations against:

Between 1960 & 2016 Republicans chose what proportion of invisible primary winners as nominee?

How much can PACs contribute to a candidate in a federal election?

In 2007 Brownstein coined the term "hyperpartisan". But in 1997 Shields said the US has:

Which of these are parts of EXOP?

According to Harry Truman who makes foreign policy?

Creating a fake grassroots movement might be called what?

According to whom are states "laboratories of democracy"?

Districts where a majority of people are from an ethnic minority are called:

Harry Truman kept a famous sign on his desk. What did it say?

What is the current split in the Senate?

Professor William H Riker described the House Rules Committee as:

Obama was the first black president. He was also the ?? black senator.

Constitutionally, of what is the President not Commander-in-Chief?

Which of the Cabinet and EXOP are mentioned in the Constitution?

Which of these is a true veto?

A committee which puts a bill to one side, thus effectively killing it, is said to be:

Thanks to Shelby County v Holder (2013), several Southern states can once again:

Which president appointed Robert C Weaver, the first black Cabinet member?

Which of these are concurrent powers of Congress?

Whose 2002 reforms attempted to clean up election funding?

What does EMILY in EMILY's list stand for?

Who is the only black Republican Senator?

Turnout for the 2014 mid-terms was...

Which of these are functions of the Federal Bureaucracy?

Who is this?

Which is the odd one out?

Around how many bills are introduced each Congress?

Who won the Iowa caucuses in 2016?

In which article of the Constitution is "federalism" used?

What was GWB's flagship education policy called?

Who said, "A constitution is not meant to facilitate change. It is meant to impede change."

"Ambition counter-checking ambition". Thus did James Madison describe:

Whose current campaign is "Protect our planet from Trump?"

What are unpledged delegates often called, which party has them & how many were there in 2016?

Who was the last state governor to face a recall election?

Who was the last Supreme Court nominee to be rejected by the Senate?

"Block grants" were a feature of New Federalism. What were they?

In 2012 supporters of Keystone XL raised $178m. Its opponents raised:

Who screamed in 2004?

"Moms Demand Action" pointed that what are banned, although guns are not?

How is the senior opposition (minority) figure in a Committee usually referred to as?

Which amendment abolished slavery?

How did Bill Clinton's advisor Paul Begala describe Executive Orders?

Who was the first major Republican to announce their candidacy for presidency, in March 2015?

Of the 100 most senior ppl in Clinton's administration, how many went on to work for lobbyists?

What is soft money?

A conference committee is called when:

Which case established judicial review?

Obergefell made gay marriage legal in the US. But in how many states was it already legal?

Complete this Reagan quotation: "Government is not the solution to our problem..."

Who appoints House Select Committe chairs?

What percentage of eligible voters took part in the primaries?

How many times was Obama's veto overriden?

How did Jack Watson describe the role of Chief of Staff?

Non-Hispanic Black American make up approximately what proportion of the US population?

If Schlesinger is "imperial" what is Neustadt?

Who was in the Axis of Evil?

"Nothing is more likely than that the enumeration of powers is defective." So said:

Gratz v Bollinger (2003) struck down Uni of Michigan's AA-based admissions because it was too:

Which of the following have endorsed Black Lives Matter?

Fisher v Texas 2016 upheld what?

"Have you ever met anyone who read the party platform?" said:

Who was the first black Supreme Court justice?

Daniel Moynihan, who served in the White House under Nixon, said "Never underestimate the..."

What is the name for a primary in which any register voter can vote?

Under Nixon, WH staff referred to the Transportation Secretary as:

Upon which amendment does the Supreme Court usually rely when enacting judicial review?

Bill Clinton wanted his Cabinet to look...

The relationship between the DoD, the defense industry and Congressional defense committees is