GOV. - Test #2 Review

Brings money (and jobs) to the district of a member of Congress

This person's job is to get party members to fall in line for votes on bills.

Johnson, Clinton, and Trump (twice) were impeached but not removed from office. Why?

Do Americans like congress and their job performance outcomes?

Introduction, committee referral, subcommittee, full committee, rules, house vote

Which have a huge reelection advantage?

Allowed Trump to refuse to release recordings of his phone call with the Ukrainian president

to balance the ticket

majority in the House and 2/3 of the Senate

Which kind of powers did Lincoln claim when he ordered a blockade of southern ports?

more

A bill that limited the president's power to start and continue wars

go around Congress to institute policy change

Which system gave jobs to those who were loyal to election winners?

Are there more women or men working for the federal government?

No

Bureaucracy

an independent executive agency

a government corporation

to create jobs and do regulation

all of them

Judges using their power broadly is an example of what?

Allows senators from the same state as a judicial nominee to block that nominee's nomination

get a constitutional amendment added

The system of courts that interprets and applies the law in the name of the state

The types of cases a court is allowed to hear, either original or appellate

Also means let it stand, when the Supreme Court uses past cases to guide their thinking on current cases

Putting policy into practice

The _______ presidency started because of the Great Depression

This is the same as going public, such as when a president talks to the public to influence their opinion

When this agency sets limits on pollution, it is doing regulation

This person counts votes, makes sure there are enough votes to pass a bill, and prepares summaries of bills for members of his party

The review and revision of a lower court decision

The reconciliation process can help limit these, by limiting debate over budget bills to only 24 hours

The 22nd Amendment limits a president to ____ terms in office?

The most powerful person in the House, who makes sure bills she likes get passed

A ____ of certiorari is a request from the Supreme Court for the records from the decision a lower court made about a case

This isn't the same as removing a president through his Senate trial, but it is the first necessary step to do so

When bureaucrats use their best judgment to implement laws passed by Congress

A conference _________ resolves differences in the House version and the Senate version of a bill passed on the same subject or to solve the same problem

These courts are where federal trials are conducted

About 90% of these people are successful when seeking reelection

Marbury v Madison is such an important court case, because it set the precedent for the Supreme Court being able to do this

When states are given seats in the House of Representatives based on how many people live in their state

An amicus ______ comes from an interest group to the Supreme Court

This major scandal was investigated by a joint committee in Congress

The ________ Act of 1883 put into place the civil service system we have today, where you have to take an open, competitive exam if you want a government job

The Senate confirms these people so they can take the bench

This president set the precedent that the president would be the nation's chief diplomat

An independent regulatory commission that makes rules about an area of commerce