QUESTION 1
When will the House and Senate Republicans releasing the 2016 budget?
A. This month
B. This week
C. Next week
D. Next month
QUESTION 2
How many of the 60 Senate seats needed to clear procedural hurdles do the Republicans have?
A. 59
B. 60
C. 30
D. 54
QUESTION 3
How much was the presidents proposal in new tax measures over the coming decade?
A. $1 million
B. $2 trillion
C. $1 trillion
D. $3 trillion
QUESTION 4
Rather than balance the budget, White House officials said they want to what?
A. keep deficits in check relative to the size of the economy
B. expand deficits
QUESTION 5
With the growth of programs, regulations, and spending since the New Deal, the insitution of the Presidency has held the responsibility for making sure that prospective legislation, specific appropriations, and?
A. military decisions
B. budget decisions
QUESTION 6
According to the text, what is the greatest problem in pinning down presidential influence?
A. disentangling context from presidential impact
B. entangling context from presidential impact
QUESTION 7
According to the text, once party dicipline descends on an issue it leaves how much room for representatives to gather at the cneter without the risk of angering the party leadership?
A. no room
B. little
C. extensive
QUESTION 8
According to the text, budget Committee Chair Pete Domenici suggested a tax cut of how much as an immediate stimulus?
A. $60 million
B. $50 billion
C. $50 million
D. $60 billion
QUESTION 9
The 2003 tax cuts illustrate how crucial the _____ process is to the enactment of major policy change in the contemporary Congress.
A. military budget
B. ways and means
C. presidential influence
D. budget
QUESTION 10
"The budget process and some of the other tools of ______________________ were indespensable to the majority Republican's legislative success.
A. lawmaking
B. unorthodox lawmaking
QUESTION 11
According to the textbook, Congress remains a body that is what to single-minded unity?
A. encouraging
B. enforcing
C. resitant
D. hesitant
QUESTION 12
Bush was advised by most Demoncrats, many unaffiliated commentators and even some republicans to cut back the size of his proposal for the purpose of what?
A. Making it more acceptable
B. Making it less acceptable