WorksheetsAP Government: Congress, President, Budget, and Bureaucracy
Total questions: 87
Worksheet time: 44mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
Party leaders who work with the majority leader or minority leader to count votes beforehand and lean on waverers whose votes are crucial to a bill favored by the party.
a)
Whip
b)
Majority Leader
c)
Speaker of the House
d)
President Pro Tempore
2.
The events and scandal surrounding a break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters in 1972 and the subsequent cover-up of White House involvement, leading to the eventual resignation of President Nixon under the threat of impeachment.
a)
Watergate
b)
Detente
c)
Cold War
d)
Global Warming
3.
A law passed in 1973 that requires the presidents to consult with Congress whenever possible prior to using military force and to withdraw forces after 60 days unless Congress declares war or grants an extension.
a)
War Powers Resolution
b)
United Nations
c)
Hatch Act
d)
Pendleton Civil Service Act
4.
The constitutional power of the president to send a bill back to Congress with reasons for rejecting it.
a)
Veto
b)
Legislative Veto
c)
Presidential Coattails
d)
Pocket Veto
5.
Created in 1945 and currently including 193 member nations, with a central peacekeeping mission and programs in areas including economic development and health, education, and welfare.
a)
United Nations
b)
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
c)
European Union
d)
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
6.
1951, limits presidents to two terms of office.
a)
22nd Amendment
b)
25th Amendment
c)
16th Amendment
d)
War Powers Resolution
7.
1967, permits the VP to become acting president if the VP and the president’s cabinet determine that the president is disabled, and it outlines how a recuperated president can reclaim the job.
a)
25th Amendment
b)
22nd Amendment
c)
16th Amendment
d)
War Powers Resolution
8.
A special tax added to imported goods to raise their price, thereby protecting businesses and workers from foreign competition.
a)
Tariff
b)
Superfund
c)
Tax Expenditure
d)
Entitlement
9.
A fund created by Congress in 1980 to clean up hazardous waste sites.
a)
Superfund
b)
Tax Expenditures
c)
Income Tax
d)
Revenue
10.
Separate subject-matter committees in each house of Congress that handle bills in different policy areas.
a)
Standing Committee
b)
Select Committe
c)
Joint Committee
d)
House Rules Committee
11.
An office mandated by the Constitution. Chosen in practice by the majority party, has both formal and informal powers, and is second in line to succeed to the presidency should that office become vacant.
a)
Speaker of the House
b)
Majority Leader
c)
Whip
d)
President Pro Tempore
12.
A simple rule for picking committee chairs. The member who had served on the committee the longest and whose party controlled the chamber became chair, regardless of party loyalty, mental state, or competence.
a)
Seniority System
b)
Senatorial Courtesy
c)
Filibuster
d)
Merit Principle
13.
Congressional committees appointed for a specific purpose, such as the Watergate investigation.
a)
Select Commitee
b)
House Ways and Means Committee
c)
Conference Committee
d)
House Rules Committee
14.
These occur when voters cast their ballots for congressional candidates of the president’s party because they support the president.
a)
Presidential Coattails
b)
Whips
c)
Command-and-Control Policy
d)
Executive Order
15.
Federal projects, grants, and contracts available to state and local governments, businesses, colleges, and other institutions in a congressional district.
a)
Pork Barrel
b)
Casework
c)
Revenue
d)
Regulation
16.
A type of veto occurring when Congress adjourns within 10 days of submitting a bill to the president and the president simply lets the bill die by neither signing nor vetoing it.
a)
Pocket Veto
b)
Veto
c)
Legislative Veto
d)
Executive Orders
17.
An economic organization consisting primarily of Middle Eastern nations that seeks to control the amount of oil its members produce and sell to other nations and hence the price of oil.
a)
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
b)
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
c)
European Union
d)
United Nations
18.
An office that prepares the president’s budget and also advises presidents on proposals from departments and agencies and helps review their proposed regulations.
a)
Office of Management and Budget
b)
Congressional Budget Office
c)
Council of Economic Advisors
d)
Senate Finance Committee
19.
A compulsory insurance program for all Americans that would have the government finance citizen medical care.
a)
National Health Insurance
b)
Medicaid
c)
Medicare
d)
Health Maintenance Organization
20.
The principal leader of the minority party in the House of Representatives or in the Senate.
a)
Minority Leader
b)
Majority Leader
c)
Speaker of the House
d)
President Pro Tempore
21.
A public assistance program designed to provide health care for poor Americans and funded by both the states and the national government.
a)
Medicare
b)
Medicaid
c)
Health Maintenance Organization
d)
Iron Triangle
22.
The principal partisan ally of the Speaker of the House, or the party’s manager in the Senate.
a)
Majority Leader
b)
Speaker of the Minority Leader
c)
President Pro Tempore
d)
Whip
23.
A vote in Congress to override a presidential decision.
a)
Legislative Veto
b)
Pocket Veto
c)
Veto
d)
Tariff
24.
The review, monitoring, and supervision of federal agencies, programs, activities, and policy implementation.
a)
Legislative Oversight
b)
Iron Triangle
c)
Policy Implementation
d)
Congressional Budget Office
25.
Congressional committees on a few subject-matter areas with membership drawn from both houses
a)
Joint Committee
b)
Standing Committee
c)
Conference Committee
d)
Senate Finance Committee
26.
A group that consists of the commanding officers of each of the armed services, a chairperson, and a vice chairperson, and advises the president on military policy.
a)
Joint Chiefs of Staff
b)
Cabinet
c)
Iron Triangle
d)
Bureaucracy
27.
The foreign policy course the U.S. followed throughout most of its history whereby it tried to stay out of other nations’ conflicts.
a)
Isolationism
b)
Arms Race
c)
Detente
d)
Containment Doctrine
28.
Mutual reliance, in which actions in nations reverberate and affect the economic well-being of people in other nations.
a)
Interdependency
b)
Tariff
c)
War Powers Resolution
d)
Reconciliation
29.
Those already holding office.
a)
Incumbents
b)
Presidential Coattails
c)
Whips
d)
Seniority System
30.
The political equivalent of an indictment in criminal law, prescribed by the Constitution.
a)
Impeachment
b)
Presidential Coattails
c)
Merit Principle
d)
Arms Race
31.
The committee in the House of Representatives that reviews most bills coming from a House committee before they go to the full House.
a)
House Rules Committee
b)
Senate Finance Committee
c)
House Ways and Means Committee
d)
Joint Committee
32.
Organization contracted by individuals or insurance companies to provide health care for a yearly fee.
a)
Health Maintenance Organization
b)
Medicaid
c)
Medicare
d)
National Health Insurance
33.
The increase in the earth’s temperatures that, according to most scientists, is occurring as a result of the carbon dioxide that is produced when fossil fuels are burned collecting in the atmosphere and trapping energy from the sun.
a)
Global Warming
b)
Superfund
c)
Deregulation
d)
Cold War
34.
Policy that involves choice taking about relations with the rest of the world.
a)
Foreign Policy
b)
Command-and-Control Policy
c)
Social Security Act of 1935
d)
Hatch Act
35.
A strategy unique to the Senate whereby opponents of a piece of legislation use their right to unlimited debate to prevent the Senate from ever voting on a bill.
a)
Filibuster
b)
Crisis
c)
Incumbent
d)
Incrementalism
36.
Regulations originating with the executive branch. One method presidents can use to control the bureaucracy.
a)
Executive Orders
b)
Deregulation
c)
Veto
d)
Legislative Oversight
37.
A transnational government composed of most European nations that coordinates monetary, trade, immigration, and labor policies, making its members one economic unit.
a)
European Union
b)
United Nations
c)
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
d)
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
38.
A policy that sought a relaxation of tensions between the U.S. and the Soviet Union, coupled with firm guarantees of mutual security.
a)
Detente
b)
Isolationism
c)
Arms Race
d)
Containment Doctrine
39.
A sudden, unpredictable, and potentially dangerous event requiring the president to play the role of crisis manager.
a)
Crisis
b)
Foreign Policy
c)
Global Warming
d)
Impeachment
40.
A 3-member body appointed by the president to advise the president on economic policy.
a)
Council of Economic Advisors
b)
Senate Finance Committee
c)
Congressional Budget Office
d)
Office of Management and Budget
41.
A foreign policy strategy that called for the U.S. to isolate the Soviet Union, “contain” its advances, and resist its encroachments by peaceful means if possible but by force if necessary.
a)
Containment Doctrine
b)
Isolationism
c)
Detente
d)
Arms Race
42.
Congressional committees formed when the Senate and the House pass a particular bill in different forms.
a)
Conference Committee
b)
Senate Finance Committee
c)
House Ways and Means Committee
d)
Joint Committee
43.
The most important influencers of the congressional agenda. Play dominant roles in scheduling hearings, hiring staff, appointing subcommittees, and managing committee bills when they are brought before the full house.
a)
Committee Chairs
b)
Cabinet
c)
Whips
d)
Speaker of the House
44.
The hostility between the U.S. and the Soviet Union, which spanned the period from the end of WWII until the collapse of the Soviet Union and Eastern European communist regimes in 1989 and the years following.
a)
Cold War
b)
Arms Race
c)
Crisis
d)
Containment Doctrine
45.
Activities of members of Congress that help constituents as individuals, particularly by cutting through bureaucratic red tape to get people what they think they have a right to get
a)
Casework
b)
Pork Barrel
c)
Revenue
d)
Tax Expenditures
46.
A group of presidential advisers not mentioned in the Constitution. Composed of 14 secretaries, the attorney general, and others.
a)
Cabinet
b)
Office of Management and Budget
c)
Senior Executive Service
d)
Street-Level Bureaucrats
47.
A proposed law, drafted in legal language.
a)
Bill
b)
Pork Barrel
c)
Entitlements
d)
Standard Operating Procedures
48.
A legislature divided into two houses.
a)
Bicameral Legislature
b)
Balance of Trade
c)
Joint Committee
d)
Legislative Oversight
49.
A tense relationship beginning in the 1950s between the Soviet Union and the U.S. whereby one side’s weaponry became the other side’s goad to procure more weaponry.
a)
Arms Race
b)
Cold War
c)
Containment Doctrine
d)
Foregin Policy
50.
Expenditures that are determined by how many eligible beneficiaries there are for a program or by previous obligations of the government and that Congress therefore cannot easily control.
a)
Uncontrollable Expenditures
b)
Tax Expenditures
c)
Income Tax
d)
Revenues
51.
Revenue losses that result from special exemptions, exclusions, or deductions allowed by federal tax law.
a)
Tax Expenditures
b)
Uncontrollable Expenditures
c)
Income Tax
d)
Entitlements
52.
The constitutional amendment adopted in 1913 that explicitly permitted Congress to levy an income tax.
a)
22nd Amendment
b)
25th Amendment
c)
16th Amendment
d)
War Powers Resolution
53.
The Senate committee that, along with the House Ways and Means Committee, writes the tax codes, subject to the approval of Congress as a whole.
a)
Senate Finance Committee
b)
House Ways and Means Committee
c)
Congressional Budget Office
d)
Council of Economic Advisers
54.
The financial resources of the government. The individual income tax and social Security tax are two major sources.
a)
Revenue
b)
Tax Expenditures
c)
Tariff
d)
Balance of Trade
55.
A congressional process through which program authorizations are revised to achieve required savings.
a)
Reconciliation
b)
Budget Resolution
c)
Appropriations Bill
d)
Authorization Bill
56.
All the money borrowed by the federal government over the years and still outstanding.
a)
National Debt
b)
Deficit
c)
Regulation
d)
Revenues
57.
A program added to the Social Security system in 1965 that provides hospitalization insurance for the elderly and permits older Americans to purchase inexpensive coverage for doctor fees and other medical expenses.
a)
Medicare
b)
Medicaid
c)
Health Maintenance Organization
d)
National Health Insurance
58.
A description of the budget process in which the best predictor of this year’s budget is last year’s budget, plus a little bit more.
a)
Incrementalism
b)
Continuing Resolution
c)
Budget Resolution
d)
Reconciliation
59.
Shares of individual wages and corporate revenues collected by the government
a)
Income Tax
b)
Tax Expenditures
c)
Deficit
d)
Expenditures
60.
The House of Representatives committee that, along with the Senate Finance Committee, writes the tax codes, subject to the approval of Congress as a whole.
a)
House Ways and Means Committee
b)
House Rules Committee
c)
Senate Finance Committee
d)
Select Committee
61.
Government spending.
a)
Expenditures
b)
Revenues
c)
Reconciliation
d)
Income Tax
62.
Government programs providing benefits to qualified individuals regardless of need.
a)
Entitlements
b)
Tax Expenditures
c)
Tariff
d)
Regulations
63.
An excess of federal expenditures over federal revenues.
a)
Deficit
b)
Budget
c)
National Debt
d)
Balance of Trade
64.
When Congress cannot reach agreement and pass appropriations bills, these resolutions allow agencies to spend at the level of the previous year.
a)
Continuing Resolution
b)
Budget Resolution
c)
Reconciliation
d)
Balance of Trade
65.
Advises Congress on the probable consequences of its decisions, forecasts revenues, and is a counterweight to the president’s Office of Management and Budget.
a)
Congressional Budget Office
b)
Office of Management and Budget
c)
Council of Economic Advisers
d)
Senate Finance Committee
66.
A resolution binding Congress to a total expenditure level, supposedly the bottom line of all federal spending for all programs.
a)
Continuing Resolution
b)
Reconciliation
c)
Budget Resolution
d)
Interdependency
67.
A policy document allocating burdens (taxes) and benefits (expenditures).
a)
Budget
b)
Balance of Trade
c)
Bill
d)
Appropriations Bill
68.
An act of Congress that establishes, continues, or changes a discretionary government program or an entitlement.
a)
Authorization Bill
b)
Appropriations Bill
c)
Executive Order
d)
Legislative Oversight
69.
Refers to those bureaucrats who are in constant contact with the public and have considerable administrative discretion.
a)
Street-Level Bureaucrats
b)
Senior Executive Service
c)
Civil Service
d)
Cabinet
70.
Enable bureaucrats to bring efficiency and uniformity to the running of complex organizations.
a)
Standard Operating Procedures
b)
Administrative Discretion
c)
Merit Principle
d)
Incentive System
71.
An elite group of about 9,000 federal government managers at the top of the civil service system.
a)
Senior Executive Service
b)
Street-Level Buearucrats
c)
Civil Service
d)
Cabinet
72.
The use of governmental authority to control or change some practice in the private sector.
a)
Regulation
b)
Deregulation
c)
Legislative Oversight
d)
Merit Principle
73.
Involves translating the goals and objectives of a policy into an operating, ongoing program.
a)
Policy Implementation
b)
Legislative Oversight
c)
Incentive System
d)
Budget
74.
Passed in 1883, an act that created a federal civil service so that hiring and promotion would be based on merit rather than patronage.
a)
Pendleton Civil Service Act
b)
Hatch Act
c)
Superfund
d)
Watergate
75.
The office in charge of hiring for most agencies of the federal government, using elaborate rules in the process.
a)
Office of Personnel Managment
b)
Office of Management and Budget
c)
Congressional Budget Office
d)
Cabinet
76.
The idea that hiring should be based on entrance exams and promotion ratings to produce administration by people with talent and skill.
a)
Merit Principle
b)
Civil Service
c)
Pendleton Civil Service Act
d)
Bureaucracy
77.
Also known as subgovernments, a mutually dependent, mutually advantageous relationship between bureaucratic agencies, interest groups, and congressional committees or subcommittees.
a)
Iron Triangle
b)
Congressional Oversight
c)
Command-and-Control Policy
d)
Civil Service
78.
A government agency with responsibility for making and enforcing rules to protect the public interest in some sector of the economy and for judging disputes over these rules.
a)
Cabinet
b)
Government Corporation
c)
Independent Regulatory Commission
d)
Independent Executive Agency
79.
The government agencies not accounted for by cabinet departments, independent regulatory commissions, and government corporations.
a)
Cabinet
b)
Government Corporation
c)
Independent Executive Agency
d)
Independent Regulatory Agency
80.
An alternative to command-and-control, with marketlike strategies such as rewards used to manage public policy.
a)
Incentive System
b)
Command-and-Control Policy
c)
Regulation
d)
Deregulation
81.
A federal law prohibiting government employees from active participation in partisan politics while on duty or for employees in sensitive positions at any time.
a)
Hatch Act
b)
Pendleton Civil Service Act
c)
Merit Principle
d)
War Powers Resolution
82.
For federal employees, ranging from GS 1 to GS 18, by which salaries can be keyed to rating and experience.
a)
GS (Genderal Schedule) Rating
b)
Senior Executive Service
c)
Street-Level Bureaucrats
d)
Cabinet
83.
Provides a service that could be delivered by the private sector and typically charges for its services.
a)
Government Corporations
b)
Independent Executive Agency
c)
Independent Regulatory Agency
d)
Cabinet
84.
The lifting of government restrictions on business, industry, and professional activities.
a)
Deregulation
b)
Regulation
c)
Incentive System
d)
Command-and-Control Policy
85.
The typical system of regulation whereby government tells business how to reach certain goals, checks that these commands are followed, and punishes offenders.
a)
Command-and-Control Policy
b)
Incentive System
c)
Regulation
d)
Deregulation
86.
A system of hiring and promotion based on the merit principle and the desire to create a nonpartisan government service.
a)
Civil Service
b)
Bureaucracy
c)
Pendleton Civil Service Act
d)
Merit Principle
87.
The authority of administrative actors to select among various responses to a given problem.
a)
Administrative Discretion
b)
Regulation
c)
Standard Operating Procedures
d)
Deregulation
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