Chapter 5 Key Concepts Quiz

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. The ____________________ is the nonpartisan office staffed by policy experts and is in charge of identifying what laws currently exist and how they are carried out.

Parliamentary Aide Office correct incorrect

Congressional Research Service correct incorrect

Office of Legislative Counsel correct incorrect

Policy Research Committee correct incorrect

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. A member who signs on to a bill before it is formally introduced is known as what?

Original cosponsor correct incorrect

Introductory cosponsor correct incorrect

Primary cosponsor correct incorrect

Chief cosponsor correct incorrect

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. Who decides which committee a bill is assigned to after it is introduced?

Majority Leader correct incorrect

Clerk correct incorrect

Parliamentarian correct incorrect

Rules Committee correct incorrect

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. What is a markup?

A report authored by the parliamentarian on points of order raised on a given day correct incorrect

The act of a staffer making changes to legislation on behalf of the member who employs them correct incorrect

The period when (sub)committee members can debate and offer amendments to a bill correct incorrect

None of the above correct incorrect

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. Which committee in the House is in charge of deciding which amendments are in order on the floor during debate?

Speaker's Committee correct incorrect

Ways and Means Committee correct incorrect

Floor Committee correct incorrect

Rules Committee correct incorrect

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. What does a modified open rule in the House do?

Closes off certain titles from amendment while opening up other titles to any amendment on the floor correct incorrect

Permits any member to offer an amendment on the floor so long as the amendment has been printed in the Congressional Record prior to the debate correct incorrect

Prohibits any amendment from being offered on the floor correct incorrect

Refers a bill to a particular committee with some suggested change correct incorrect

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. What procedural tactic might the minority party use as a last-ditch effort to change a bill?

Motion to Recommit correct incorrect

Unanimous Consent Agreement correct incorrect

Point of Order correct incorrect

Cloture correct incorrect

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. An agreement between all senators regarding the manner in which a bill will be debated on the floor is known as which of the following?

Unanimous Consent Agreement correct incorrect

Special Rules Agreement correct incorrect

Manner of Debate Agreement correct incorrect

None of the above correct incorrect

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. What is a filibuster?

The placement of a hold on a bill indicating the senator would object if the bill made it to the floor correct incorrect

Parliamentary tactic for cutting off debate and allowing for a final passage vote correct incorrect

The formal act of reading the roll when senators vote on the floor correct incorrect

The act of speaking indefinitely on the floor after being recognized correct incorrect

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. When a member finds a bill they like in the chamber they do not serve in they might introduce what kind of bill to allow both bills to travel through the legislative process at the same time?

Privileged bill correct incorrect

Private bill correct incorrect

Companion bill correct incorrect

Either b or c correct incorrect

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. ___________ apply only to those individuals named in the bill.

Companion bills correct incorrect

Private bills correct incorrect

Simple resolutions correct incorrect

Concurrent resolutions correct incorrect

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. Which of the following has the status of law but are usually used for things that do not have the permanency of law?

Simple Resolution correct incorrect

Public Bill correct incorrect

Joint Resolution correct incorrect

Concurrent Resolution correct incorrect

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. The establishment of congressional budget resolutions is done via ______________.

Joint resolutions correct incorrect

Concurrent resolutions correct incorrect

Public bills correct incorrect

None of the above correct incorrect

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. Which of the following only apply to the chamber within which they are passed?

Private Bill correct incorrect

Companion Bill correct incorrect

Rules Resolution correct incorrect

Simple Resolution correct incorrect

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. A term used to describe a member of Congress who thoroughly learns a policy area and who becomes an indispensable voice in the minutiae of law is what?

Workhorse correct incorrect

Wonkish Wally correct incorrect

Show horse correct incorrect

None of the above correct incorrect