Which of the following serves as the accountant for Congress?
A) General Accounting Office (GAO)
B) Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
C) Council of Economic Advisers (CEA)
D) Federal Reserve Board
E) the Interstate Commerce Commission
A
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Article I, section 8, of the Constitution grants
a. the president the power of commander in chief. b. the Senate the ability to approve international treaties. c. the president alone the power to declare war. d. Congress alone the power to declare war. e. the president the power to conduct foreign policy.
Representatives occasionally engage in lengthy debates on bills, including bills that they do not oppose. This delaying action is called
A) a filibuster. B) cloture. C) chubbing. D) politics as usual.
Which of the following statements is true of the organization of the federal government?
A) A government corporation is a major structure of the legislative branch of the federal government. B) An independent executive agency of the federal government is located within a cabinet department. C) The judicial branch of the federal government consists of a number of bureaucracies that provide services to the president directly. D) Each type of structure of the executive branch of the federal government has its own internal workings. E) An executive agency and a regulatory agency of the federal government have the same relationship to the president.
How did delegates to the Constitutional Convention sidestep their original mandate?
a. They aimed to weaken federal power and give even more power to the individual states. b. They quickly decided to scrap the Articles of Confederation and write a new constitution. c. They desperately tried to find a way to make the existing Articles of Confederation work. d. They focused almost exclusively on commerce and navigation between the states.