WorksheetsQuiz 2.1 - 2.3 Review
Total questions: 18
Worksheet time: 9mins
Pork barrel legislation is best defined as which of the following?
Laws that include provisions on how agriculture and farming should be conducted
Laws that are created by the president without congressional approval
Laws that include federally-funded local projects that benefit a specific district
Laws that die in committees because they are unpopular
Senator Ramirez listens to her constituents’ wishes on every piece of legislation, but always votes her conscience, even if it goes against her constituents’ wishes on pieces of legislation they care about.
Which model of representation do her actions embody?
The politico model
The trustee model
The majoritarian model
The delegate model
Ohio has 16 representatives in the House of Representatives, but only two representatives in the Senate.
Which of the following statements best explains the reason for this difference in representation?
The House represents states according to the size of their population, while the Senate represents the states equally
The House represents the total number of state legislators, while the Senate represents states equally
The House gives more representation to the political party that won the most recent election, while the Senate represents the states equally
The House represents northern states, while the Senate represents southern states
Which of the following statements is most consistent with the cartoon's message?
As entitlement costs grow, discretionary spending has to increase in order to reduce the budget deficit
As discretionary spending grows, members of both the Republican party and Democratic party seek to cut entitlement costs
As discretionary spending grows, entitlement costs have to increase to maintain the budget
As entitlement costs grow, discretionary spending has to decrease unless tax revenues increase or Congress permits the budget deficit to increase
Which of the following statements best explains the impact the necessary and proper clause has had on congressional power?
It has weakened the power of Congress by restricting it to only those powers listed in the Constitution
It has weakened the power of Congress by allowing the Supreme Court to declare any law unconstitutional
It has broadened the power of Congress by allowing it to limit the executive branch’s ability to commit the United States to an armed conflict
It has broadened the power of Congress to enact legislation addressing a wide range of economic, environmental, and social issues
What is gerrymandering?
a strategy to delay a vote in the Senate by debating a bill, sometimes to an excess degree
a process of redistributing representatives across new districts after the census
an active effort to gain popularity with voters in a particular district before an election
a redistricting tactic that allows one part to gain an unfair advantage over the other party
Senator Krabs received thousands of letters and phone calls asking him to support a bill. The bill orders restaurants to list the ingredients in all of their products on their menu boards. Senator Krabs believes that the bill will cause valuable fast food restaurants in his district to go out of business, so he votes against the bill.
What model of representation is Senator Krabs portraying?
politico
trustee
partisan
delegate
What was the decision in Baker v. Carr (1962)?
Redistricting based on race must be held to a standard of strict scrutiny.
The Congress cannot use the necessary and proper clause to justify interfering with a state's own laws.
The courts have some jurisdiction over legislative redistricting disputes.
The Supreme Court can decide if the actions of the other branches of government are unconstitutional.
What political conflict causes a divided government?
The Senate refuses to end debate on a bill even though the House version has passed.
The Senate and the House refuse to agree on what should be in a new law.
The two political parties refuse to work together to pass legislation.
The president's political party is opposite from the party that controls Congress.
In November, a new Republican is elected to a seat in the Senate that a Democrat currently holds. The Democrat will be at a congressional session in December before the new senator enters office.
Which of the following describes this situation?
gridlock
bipartisan politics
lame-duck
divided government
What is an example of how the minority party can slow down the policymaking process in the Senate?
They can perform cloture.
They can filibuster a bill.
They can table a bill.
They can propose different rules for debate.
Which of the following is the name of the formal procedure that brings a bill out of committee and onto the House floor for a vote?
discharge petition
filibuster
hold
cloture
What is an example of mandatory spending?
Social Security payments
Education funding
Foreign aid
Defense spending
What is the Committee of the Whole?
the entire group of legislators from both the Senate and the House
the majority party in the House of Representatives
the group of all 100 members of the Senate
the group of all 435 members of the House
What does the necessary and proper clause allow Congress to do?
end long-winded debates in the Senate
amend the United States Constitution
force a bill out of committee and to the floor for a vote
pass laws in order to enforce other laws
What does it mean for a power to be "enumerated"?
It is implied in the Constitution.
It is explicitly stated in the Constitution.
It is shared between the federal government and the states.
It belongs only to the states.
How are senators currently selected for office?
Voters in each state elect a number of senators based on the state's population.
Voters in each state elect two senators regardless of the state's size.
Each state’s legislature appoints two senators to represent the state as a whole.
The House of Representative nominates two members of Congress from each state to join the Senate.
What power does the commerce clause give to Congress?
the power to collect taxes
the power to impeach the president
the power to decide how to elections are run
the power to regulate interstate and international trade
