Magruders american gov chapters 10-13 unit 3
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- The power to * provides a way of bringing charges against the President for any high crimes and misdemeanors committed while in office
- Necessary and Proper Clause
- In the overall process of lawmaking, Congress does NOT
- introduce many bills
- a legal proceeding for distributing to creditors the assets of those unable to pay their debts
- bankruptcy
- When a bill is introduced in the House, it is FIRST
- given to the Rules Committee
- All treaties must be approved by a two-thirds vote of
- ] the Senate
- House members are elected to serve
- two-year terms
- The main reason that Congress creates committees is to
- educate new members
- The bicameral structure of Congress does all of the following EXCEPT
- concentrate power in a singel, centralized agency
- The powers of Congress are affected by all of the following EXCEPT
- what the States' constitutions say Congress may do
- In order to reflect changes in the population of each State, seats in the House of Representatives are
- reapportioned among the States every 10 years
- What power allows Congress to take private property for such uses as a military base, a national park, or a post office?
- the power of eminent domain
- Conference committees act as a "third house of Congress" when they
- produce a new bill that replaces differing House and Senate versions
- After each census, which of the following determines the number of seats each State should have in the House of Representatives?
- a special House committee
- Which of the following is NOT a constitutional method by which COngress may acquire property?
- ⬢ [A] taking private property without just compensation (correct answer)
- In both houses, the standing committees
- are usually chaired by members chosen on the basis of seniority
- ⬢ [A] taking private property without just compensation (correct answer)
- Rules Committee
- Either house of Congress may respond to charges of price-gouging in the cable TV industry by using its (1 pt)
- B] judicial powers
- The House Rules Committee may do all of the following EXCEPT (1 pt)
- ⬢ [D] attach amendments to a bill (correct answer)
- Committee chairpersons usually are chosen
- [D] on the basis of seniority
- On the first day of each new term, the House
- elects a Speaker to preside
- In order to prevent a bill passed by Congress from becoming law, the President may
- not sign it and attach a veto message
- Which of the following judicial powers does Congress NOT have?
- the power to override Supreme COurt decisions by majority vote
- the exclusive legal right to copy, sell, or publish a piece of creative work
- copyright
- With just a fraction of its seats up for election at any one time, the Senate is the sole * in COngress.
- continuous body
- Which statement about the Senate is True?
- ] it has two members from each state
- The term "third house of Congress" is sometimes applied to
- conference committees
- In Congress, screening bills for floor consideration is a major duty of
- committee members
- Members of Congress fill of the following roles EXCEPT that of
- cabinet member
- Committee chairpersons may do all of the following EXCEPT
- ] choose all members of their committees
- Congress must meet formally at least twice during each * to carry out the business of lawmaking
- ] session
- All of the following war powers are granted to Congress EXCEPT
- the power to appoint a commander in chief
- Seats in the House of Representatives are gerrymandered among the States on the basis of their populations
- False
- a grant for the exclusive right to make, use, or sell new or improved inventions
- patent
- Each session of Congress lasts two years
- true
- Which of the following powers could COngress use to help protect American car makers from foreign competition?
- the power to tax
- The Senate is known as a continuous body, because only a third of its seats are up for election at the same time
- true
- Congress regulates all commercial interactions between the States and is authorized to do so by the
- commerce power
- Seats in the HOuse of Representatives are * among the States according to their populations
- apportioned
- Unlike the House, the Senate has a legislative process with
- few limits on debate
- Majority floor leaders hold considerable power due mainly to the fact that
- the majority party has more seats than the other party has
- An emergency may prompt the President to call a * of Congress
- special session
- Which of the following is NOT a qualification for senators?
- must have a degree in law
- Bills that originate in either house of COngress may be
- ] ignored completely by the members of Congress
- The lawmaking fuction of Congress is central to democracy because
- it is the means by which the public will becomes public policy
- Members of Congress w ho vote according to their party's wishes are
- partisans
- Which of the following happens only in the Senate?
- a majority of members forces a bill out of committee by discharge petition
- Most measures introduced in the House die at which of these steps?
- ] committee (
- In the Senate, a filibuster may be ended with a vote that invokes
- the rule of cloture
- The president of the Senate
- is replaced, when absent, by the president pro tempore
- the government may take private property by * to make room for an interstate highway
- eminent domain