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Quiz by Isaiah Hicks

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  • Q1
    The President opposes a bill to increase taxes and endeavors to ensure it does not get passed. The Constitution authorizes the President
    to call legislators and urge them to vote against the bill.
    to veto the bill.
    to make a public statement against the bill.
    to stage a filibuster aimed at killing the bill in the Senate.
    30s
  • Q2
    An example of a concurrent resolution would be
    a House of Representatives commemoration of civil rights icon Rosa Parks on her 100th birthday.
    an amendment to the Constitution granting women the right to vote.
    a welcoming of the independence of the Republic of South Sudan issued by the House of Representatives and the Senate.
    Senate authorization of the use of military force against those responsible for the terrorist acts of September 11, 2001.
    30s
  • Q3
    The day before the government shut down on October 1, 2013, the House and Senate sent a bill back and forth about whether to fund key provisions in the Affordable Health Care Act. What is one possible reason this strategy of legislative ping-pong did not work?
    The Constitution does not allow the passage of a bill in a single day.
    The legislative branch moves too slowly to write a bill in a single day.
    Neither chamber could negotiate a bill that they agreed on and that the President would likely sign into law.
    The House passed the bill, but the Senate exercised a pocket veto.
    30s
  • Q4
    Which term is used to describe an action that takes place in a committee where some bills are buried and forgotten?
    discharge petition
    pigeonholing
    earmark
    rider
    30s
  • Q5
    What is a filibuster?
    an attempt to talk a bill to death
    An attempt by the president to add on to a proposed law.
    a meeting that takes place at noon during congressional hearings.
    Congress' veto power against the judicial branch.
    30s

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