Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)

1. The Constitution requires that legislation must typically pass Congress in identical form before it can be considered by the president.
2. Barbour and Wright maintain that it is much easier to stop legislation from passing through Congress than it is to successfully get a bill onto the president’s desk.
3. The founders intended for voters to directly elect their representatives in both the House and Senate.
4. Senate terms are staggered so that they do not all come up for reelection in the same year.
5. Because pork-barrel projects only benefit specific regions they are funded solely by taxes drawn from those regions.


1. True
2. True
3. False
4. True
5. False

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