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U.S. AP GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS CHAPTER 9 HOW A BILL BECOMES A LAW Directions: Choose the best answer. (+1 for each correct answ er; -1 for each w rong answ er) 1. A bill can be introduced by a. b c. d. e. 2. members of Congress only. members of Congress, the president, and the Supreme Court. any citizen. the Rules Committee in either house of Congress. the president, with approval of two or more committee chairs. If a bill is not passed within one session of Congress, it a. b. c. d. e. cannot be reintroduced. cannot be reintroduced for another three sessions. must be considered at the beginning of the next session. is dead and must be reintroduced during the next Congress. none of the above 3. W hich of the following statements is correct? a. b. c. d. e. Congress often initiates legislation. Presidents submit legislation only after careful consultation with members of Congress. Only a member of Congress can introduce legislation. Laws formally introduced by the president are often incubated in Congress. all of the above 4. A joint resolution a. b. c. d. e. is passed by several committees. has the force of law. does not need to be signed by the president. typically establishes operating rules for one of the chambers. is valid, unless it is signed by the president. 5. W hich of the following requires the signature of the president? a. b. c. d. e. simple resolution concurrent resolution joint resolution discharge resolution rider resolution 6. W hich of the following establishes operating rules? a. b. c. d. e. simple resolution concurrent resolution joint resolution discharge resolution rider resolution 7. Under the Constitution, bills can originate in either house of Congress with the exception of a. b. c. d. e. proposed constitutional amendments, which must begin in the Senate. declarations of war, which must begin in the House. bills to override a president's veto, which must begin in the Senate. bills for raising revenue, which must begin in the House. bills reducing expenditures that were previously appropriated. 8. W hen a bill is assigned to a committee, it usually a. b. c. d. e. passes Congress unchanged from its original form. dies there (in the committee). is not acted on until a majority vote of either house demands action. stays there until a declaration by the Supreme Court that it constitutional. passes Congress with major modifications. 9. W hich of the following statements concerning discharge petitions is incorrect? a. b. c. d. e. They They They They long. They are used in the House. can be brought by any member of the House. can be submitted after a bill has sat in committee for 100 days. were designed to prevent a committee from killing a bill by holding it for too require 218 signatures. 10. The function of the Rules Committee in the House is to a. b. c. d. e. punish members who violate the rules of Congress. decide who will be Speaker of the House. make a rule determining which committee receives a bill introduced into Congress. make a rule determining how long a bill can be debated and how it can be amended. keep records of speeches in chamber. 11. If a member of the House is sponsoring a bill that has just been reported out of committee and is worried that floor amendments will substantially change it, he or she might request a. b. c. d. e. a discharge petition from his or her colleagues. a closed rule from the Rules Committee. an open rule from the majority leader. an amendment from one of the select committees. a redactation order from the courts. 12. The purpose of the Committee of the W hole is to a. b. c. d. e. assemble all members of the House to discuss important bills. assign members of the House to standing committees. reduce the quorum of the House to 218 members to debate and amend bills. form a joint committee members with of both houses to propose constitutional amendments. discuss legislation in small groups of 10 or less. 13. In the Senate, a filibuster can be ended by invoking a. b. c. d. e. a rider. a quorum. markup. cloture. redactation. 14. Amendments that are unrelated to a bill but added so that their subject can also be considered by Congress are called a. b. c. d. e. rip ups. triple trackers. cloture agents. filibusters. riders. 15. W hich of the following statements about the current cloture rule is correct? a. b. c. d. e. It requires three-fifths of the entire Senate membership to pass. It sets a time limit on debate of five minutes per speaker. It requires half of the entire Senate membership to sign a petition to move cloture. It is used more frequently by the House than by the Senate. A and D 16. The focus of debate over filibusters in 2005 was a. b. c. d. e. abortion. congressional subpoenas. church and state. the budget. nomination of federal judges. 17. If you wanted to know what a member of Congress really thinks about a bill, you would be best advised to look at how he or she voted a. b. c. d. e. on the final passage. on amendments to the bill. during the quorum call. on the referral of the bill. on joint resolutions. 18. W hich vote requires members to place signed ballots in a box? a. b. c. d. e. voice vote division vote standing vote teller vote roll call vote 19. W hich vote requires members to shout aye or no ? a. b. c. d. e. voice vote division vote standing vote teller vote roll call vote 20. W hen a bill passes the House and Senate in substantially different forms, the differences are resolved in a. b. c. d. e. a standing committee. a committee of the whole. the Rules Committee. a conference committee. a resolution quorum. 21. A roll call vote a. b. c. d. e. is conducted verbally. is done only in the House. provides a record of how a member has voted. has been taken only rarely in recent years. is taken on every piece of legislation. 22. A president s veto can be overridden by a. b. c. d. e. a majority vote in either house of Congress. a two-thirds vote of both houses of Congress. a conference committee of Congress. a concurrent resolution. any senior member of the Senate. 23. Studies have shown significant correlations between congressional votes and constituency opinion regarding a. b. c. d. e. foreign policy measures. civil rights bills. social welfare measures. commercial regulation. A and C 24. For members who seek to mirror their constituents' views, the principal difficulty is a. b. c. d. e. the lack of clear and consistent policy positions from their districts. the need to follow the dictates of party leaders in the Congress. the pressure of special-interest groups. the influence of the W hite House. clarifying media reports that influence public opinion. 25. In the organizational explanation of congressional voting behavior, the principal voting cue is probably a. b. c. d. e. constituency opinion. party. personal ideology. the conservative coalition. interest-group contributions. 26. In the 1950s and the 1960s, the conservative coalition consisted of a. b. c. d. e. conservative and moderate Republicans. conservative Democrats and independents. conservatives from minor parties. conservative Democrats and Republicans. liberal Republicans who voted with conservative Democrats. 27. The conservative coalition decreased in significance from the 1980s onward because a. b. c. d. e. northern Democrats no longer were concerned with social issues. conservative southern Democrats were replaced by liberals. northern Democrats were replaced by conservatives. conservative southern Democrats were replaced by Republicans. few members of Congress were influenced by conservative ideology.

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