Setting The Federal Budget - Unit 12

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Multiple Choice

Which of the following BEST describes the primary purpose of the federal budget process?

• To determine individual tax rates

• To create a financial plan for government spending and priorities

• To limit congressional power

• To allocate funds exclusively to military spending

Multiple Select

Which of the following statements are parts of the budget process?

Select all that apply (3 correct answers).

• The president signs or vetoes a budget.

• The judicial branch decides if the budget is constitutional.

• The Senate and House of Representatives approve their own budget bills.

• A committee reconciles the budgets prepared by the Senate and the House of Representatives to create one budget.

Multiple Select

Which of the following options represents mandatory spending? Select all that apply (2 correct answers).

• Department of Defense

• Medicare

• Department of Transportation

• veterans benefits

Match

Match the term with the correct definition.

• spending determined by law, which accounts for about 70 percent of the budget

• spending that accounts for about 30 percent of the budget and is divided by Congress among agencies that have not been determined by law

• money set aside by Congress for specific projects

• spending that is specifically created to help one state or district

mandatory spending

discretionary spending

earmarks

pork barrel

• mandatory spending

• discretionary spending

• earmarks

• pork barrel

Multiple Choice

Which response best explains how the line-item veto would affect the budget?

• give the executive branch more power to further balance the branch's power

• encourage the president not to use the pocket veto

• combat wasteful spending

• allow Congress the power to overturn the president's wishes on the budget