POSC 100 Study Guide Ricardo Salas

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POSC 100 Study Guide Ricardo
Salas

• Part 3
• Assignment 15

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Notice

• Dear students
• The odd-numbered questions are answered for
  you. The answers to the even-numbered questions
  are the result of your readings. This is to
  assure that you are understanding the material.
  Good luck!

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Assignment 15
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Party Leadership in Congress

• T or F Questions (8)
• Multiple Choice questions (10)
• Fill-in Questions (2)

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True or False Questions

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True or False

• 1/8
• Party leaders in Congress exercise much of
  the same kind of power as their parliamentary
  counterparts in Europe.

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Answer

• 1/8
• False

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True or False

• 2/8
• Based on seniority, a member of the minority
  party may assume the chair of a standing
  committee.

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Answer

• 2/8

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True or False

• 3/8
• To combat the problem of committee chairs
  becoming too independent from the party
  leadership, Senate and House Democrats, but not
  Republicans, place term limits on committee
  chairs.

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Answer

• 3/8
• False

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True or False

• 4/8
• In spite of the fact that Congress has
  concentrated power among its leaders, parliaments
  in Western European are less democratic bodies.

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Answer

• 4/8

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True or False

• 5/8
• Each standing committee has no legislative
  authority over drafting or rewriting legislation
  rather, standing committees have only the
  authority to vote either in favor of or in
  opposition to legislation as is.

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Answer

• 5/8
• False

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True or False

• 6/8
• The ratio of Democrats to Republicans on each
  committee is determined by the majority party
  based on a fixed rule.

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Answer

• 6/8

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True or False

• 7/8
• Each standing committee has a fixed number of
  members, and a committee must have a vacancy
  before a new member can be appointed.

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Answer

• 7/8
• True

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True or False

• 8/8
• Rarely does a newly elected member of
  Congress receive committee assignments that they
  have requested.

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Answer

• 8/8

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Multiple Choice Questions

• The following questions are multiple choices.
  Select the most appropriate answer.

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1/10

• Critical bodies in Congress that meet
  periodically to select party leaders, plan
  strategy, and air their differences in the
  process of settling the party's legislative
  agenda
• a) organizational meeting
• b) party caucus
• c) constituent assembly
• d) legislative forum.

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Answer

• 1/10
• b

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2/10

• The Constitution provides only for the
  following leadership post in the House
• a) Speaker
• b) Majority Leader
• c) Majority Whip
• d) all the above.

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Answer

• 2/10

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3/10

• Who is the most powerful leader in
• Congress and the second most powerful
• leader in Washington, D.C.?
• a) the Speaker of the House
• b) the Majority leader in the
  Senate
• c) the President of the Senate
• d) the Majority Whip in the House.

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Answer

• 3/10
• a

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4/10

• According to the Constitution, who is the
  presiding officer of the Senate?
• a) vice-president
• b) majority leader
• c) majority whip
• d) chairperson.

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Answer

• 4/10

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5/10

• When does the vice-president play a
• legislative role in the Senate
• a) he continuously presides over the Senate
• b) to introduce executive bills sponsored
  by the
• residing administration
• c) to end the debate at the end of a
  Senate session
• d) to break a tie vote in the Senate.

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Answer

• 5/10
• d

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6/10

• Votes on which each members vote is
  officially recorded
• a) voice votes
• b) secret votes
• c) party votes
• d) roll-call votes.

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Answer

• 6/10

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7/10

• The permanent committees in Congress
• that have responsibility for a particular
• area of public policy
• a) conference committees
• b) joint committees
• c) standing committees
• d) select committees.

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Answer

• 7/10
• c

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8/10

• A joint committee formed temporarily to work
  out the differences in House and Senate versions
  of a particular bill
• a) ad hoc committees
• b) housekeeping committees
• c) conference committees
• d) concurrent committees.

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Answer

• 8/10

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9/10

• About how many bills are introduced to
  Congress in during each two-year session?
• a) 2,700 b) 5,000
• c) 10,000 d) 23,400.

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Answer

• 9/10
• c

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10/10

• How are the members of a subcommittee
• selected?
• a) The individual party caucus
• b) The party leadership
• c) Previous experience is the key
  factor
• d) Members of each party on the
  committee
• decide.

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Answer

• 10/10

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Fill-in Questions

• The following questions have missing critical
  words. Fill in the most appropriate missing word.

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1/2

• What are some of the powers of the
• Speaker?
• a) The Speaker decides who ________ first on
  legislation during House debate by ______________
  members,
• b) The Speaker chooses the chairperson and party
  members of the powerful House ________
  ____________, which controls the _____________ of
  bills for debate,
• c) The Speaker assigns bills to committees,
  places _______ ________ on the reporting of bills
  out of committees, and assigns members to
  ____________ committees.

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Answer

• 1/2
• speaks, recognizing
• Rules Committee, scheduling
• Time limits, conference

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2/2

• A committee chair
• a) ___________ committee meetings,
• b) determines the _______ in which committee
  bills are
• considered,
• c) __________ over committee hearings,
• d) directs the committee's majority _______, and
• e) can choose to ______ the ________ when a
• committee bill reaches the floor for a
  vote by the full
• membership.

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Answer

• 2/2

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