AP United States Government & Politics EXAM: Congress and the Presidency, Ch. 12 & 13 MULTIPLE CHOICE. Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or answers the question. 1) privileges refer to the free use of the mail system enjoyed by Congress. A) Procurement B) E-mail C) Junket D) Franking E) Conmail 2) The United States Senate has members. A) 535 B) 435 C) 438 D) 100 E) 50 3) Which of the following is TRUE about the minimum age requirements for members of Congress set forth in the Constitution? A) There are no age requirements for members of Congress. B) One must be at least 30 years of age to serve in the Senate. C) One must be at least 21 years of age to serve in the House of Representatives. D) One must be at least 35 years of age to serve in either the House or the Senate. E) The age requirements are the same for the House and the Senate. 4) In terms of religion, most members of Congress are A) Jewish. B) born-again Christians. C) Catholic. D) atheists. E) Protestant. 5) The single most important advantage to someone trying to get elected to Congress is A) having more money to spend on campaigning. B) being charismatic and photogenic. C) being an incumbent. D) having a clean record. E) winning the endorsement of the top leaders of their party. 6) Reasons that incumbent senators have greater competition than incumbent members of the House include all of the following EXCEPT A) senators tend to draw more visible challengers. B) an entire state is more diverse than a congressional district, providing more of a base for opposition. C) senators have less personal contact with their constituencies. D) voters are less likely to know the issue positions of their senators than their representatives. E) Senate challengers are better funded than House challengers. 7) Cutting through red tape to give people what they think they have the right to is A) pork barrel politics. B) franking. C) credit claiming. D) advertising. E) casework. 8) A legislature divided into two houses is called a legislature. A) bicameral B) divided C) double D) dual E) unicameral 1
9) After each federal census, A) the Senate reapportions its membership. B) the office of the Speaker of the House changes hands. C) the size of Congress increases. D) the membership of the House is reapportioned. E) All of the above 10) The House Committee reviews most bills coming from other committees before they go on to the full House, thus performing a traffic cop function. The Senate has no such committee. A) Appropriations B) Authorization C) Rules D) Review E) Ways and Means 11) Which of the following is TRUE of the Senate as compared to the House? A) In the Senate, seniority is important in determining power. B) The Senate is more influential on the budget. C) The Senate is smaller in number, and less powerful and less prestigious. D) The Senate is more influential in foreign affairs. E) The Senate is more centralized and is characterized by stronger leadership. 12) According to the Constitution, revenue bills must originate in the A) House. B) Senate. C) Federal Reserve System. D) Internal Revenue Service. E) Treasury Department. 13) Nominees to the United States Supreme Court must be confirmed by A) the House. B) the president. C) the Senate. D) either the House or the Senate. E) both the House and the Senate. 14) According to the Constitution, once impeached, federal officials are then tried in the A) House. B) Senate. C) United States District Court for the District of Columbia. D) Department of Justice. E) Supreme Court. 15) The filibuster A) is unique to the Senate. B) has been ruled unconstitutional. C) is allowed in both the House and the Senate. D) is unique to the House. E) has been prohibited in both the House and Senate. 16) The procedure used to cut off debate and end a filibuster is known as A) coattails. B) hushing. C) overriding. D) cloture. E) franking. 17) The most powerful person in the Senate is the A) majority leader. B) chair of the Rules Committee. C) president of the United States. D) vice president of the United States, who serves as president of the Senate. E) Speaker. 18) Party leaders who work with the majority or minority leader to count votes beforehand and lean on waverers whose votes are crucial to a bill favored by the party are called A) PACs. B) whips. C) filibusterers. D) speakers. E) pork barrellers. 2
19) Appropriations, Judiciary, and Armed Services are all examples of committees. A) joint B) rule C) select D) standing E) conference 20) committees draw their membership from both the Senate and the House. A) Joint B) Conference C) Select D) Standing E) Ad-hoc 21) A committee is formed when the Senate and House pass different versions of the same bill to report back a compromise bill. A) standing B) standing C) select D) conference E) joint 22) Legislative is the process of monitoring the bureaucracy and its administration of policy. A) oversight B) franking C) supremacy D) stonewalling E) overview 23) Members of Congress who informally band together in groups to promote and protect mutual interests (e.g., mushroom growers) form what are called A) committees. B) junkets. C) subcommittees. D) interest groups. E) caucuses. 24) Which of the following offices is responsible for making economic projections about the performance of the economy, the costs of proposed policies, and the economic effects of taxing and spending alternatives? A) Congressional Research Service B) Federal Reserve C) General Accounting Office D) Ways and Means Committee E) Congressional Budget Office 25) Only can formally submit a bill for congressional consideration. A) senators B) members of the House or senators C) the president D) members of the House E) the Speaker of the House 26) According to the original Constitution, the president must be A) a citizen of the United States for at least ten years. B) a resident of the United States for at least five years. C) a White man. D) at least 35 years old. E) All of the above except D 27) The two-term limit was placed on the presidency by A) the Twenty-second Amendment. B) an act of Congress passed after Franklin D. Roosevelt's death. C) the Presidential Powers Act of 1951. D) Article II of the original Constitution. E) the Twenty-fifth Amendment. 28) Appointed to the vice presidency in 1973 due to a vacancy, he was the only one to become president having run for neither the presidency or vice presidency in the preceding election. A) Ronald Reagan B) Jimmy Carter C) Nelson Rockefeller D) Lyndon Johnson E) Gerald Ford 3
29) The Twenty-fifth Amendment, ratified in 1967, A) limited the president to two terms in B) specifically forced Richard Nixon from C) provided for the direct election of the president by the people. D) granted 18-year-olds the right to vote. E) created a means for selecting a new vice president when the office became vacant. 30) Which of the following is a member of the cabinet? A) Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation B) White House chief of staff C) Speaker of the House D) Secretary of the Navy E) None of the above 31) Today there are secretaries and the attorney general that head the president's cabinet. A) 5 B) 10 C) 24 D) 34 E) 14 32) The National Security Council A) is composed of the heads of the three branches of the armed services and makes recommendations to the president on combat strategy. B) was established by President Roosevelt to manage foreign and domestic intelligence operations. C) was created by legislation to keep the president informed on foreign affairs. D) helps the president make policy on such matters as inflation and unemployment. E) links the president's key foreign and military policy advisors. 33) What is the major responsibility of the Office of Management and Budget? A) To prepare the president's budget B) Managing the White House staff C) Reviewing regulations proposed by departments and agencies D) To prepare the annual Economic Report of the President E) To link key foreign and military policy advisers to the economy 34) The three member body appointed by the president to advise the president on economic policy is the A) Treasury Department. B) Department of the Interior. C) Office of Management and Budget. D) Department of State. E) Council of Economic Advisors. 35) The pocket veto can only be used A) on appropriations bills. B) when a new president is about to take C) when Congress is adjourned. D) during a presidential election year. E) when Congress is in session. 36) Presidential coattails refers to A) voters who support the president casting their ballots for congressional candidates of the president's party. B) the tendency for the president's party to lose congressional seats in midterm elections. C) the president's power to appoint members of his own political party to cabinet posts and as personal advisors. D) members of Congress voting according to the wishes of the president. E) fundraising parties the president hosts to raise money for congressional candidates. 4
37) The perception that voters strongly support the president's character and policies is called a(n) A) confidence vote. B) pocket veto. C) electoral mandate. D) veto. E) landslide. 38) The War Powers Resolution may be considered unconstitutional because A) it violates the president's power to declare war. B) its use of the legislative veto may be considered a violation of the doctrine of separation of powers. C) it violates the president's power as commander in chief. D) it was struck down by the Supreme Court. E) it violates the congressional power to appropriate funds for the military. 39) The higher the president stands in the polls, A) the shorter the president's coattails. B) the less support he needs in Congress. C) the less likely he will initiate new policy ventures. D) the easier it is to persuade others to support presidential initiatives. E) the less need there is for presidential public appearances. 40) Among recent presidents, the average approval ratings in the public opinion polls have been A) higher at the end of the president's term than at the beginning. B) higher at the beginning of the president's term than at the end. C) over 75 percent. D) slowly rising over the course of a president's term(s). E) below 40 percent. 5