POLI 2051 Final Questions With Complete
Solutions
Pocket veto this occurs when Congress adjourns within 10 days after submitting a bill and
the president takes no action to sign it or veto it.
Presidential coattails where voters cast their ballots for congressional candidates of the
president's party because those candidates support the president.
Twenty-fifth Amendment passed in 1967, permits the vice president to become acting
president in the event that the president is temporarily disabled.
Twenty-second Amendment passed in 1951, limits presidents to two terms.
Veto sending the legislation back to Congress with reasons for rejecting it.
War Powers Resolution passed in 1973, requires presidents to consult with Congress prior
to using military force and mandates the withdrawal of forces after sixty days unless Congress
declares war or grants an extension.
, POLI 2051 Final Questions With Complete
Solutions
Watergate a political scandal involving President Nixon's abuse of his powers.
Appropriations bill bill passed annually to fund an authorized program.
Authorization bill an act of Congress that establishes a discretionary government program
or an entitlement, or that continues or changes such programs.
Budget a policy document that allocates burdens (taxes) and benefits (expenditures).
Budget resolution a bill setting limits on expenditures based on revenue projections,
agreed to by both houses of Congress in April each year.
Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 an act designed to reform
the budgeting process by making Congress less dependent on the president's budget; established
a fixed budget calendar and a budget committee in each house.
Congressional Budget Office (CBO) research agency of Congress, responsible to it for
providing analyses of budget proposals, revenue forecasts, and related information.
, POLI 2051 Final Questions With Complete
Solutions
Continuing resolutions laws that allow agencies to spend at the previous year's level.
Deficit occurs when government spends more money than it receives in taxes in the fiscal
year.
Entitlements expenditures for which the total amount spent is not by congressional
appropriation, but rather by rules of eligibility established by Congress.
Expenditures money spent by the government in any one year.
Federal debt all of the money borrowed by the government over the years that is still
outstanding.
House Ways and Means Committee responsible for originating all revenue bills.
Income tax the portion of money individuals are required to pay to the government from
the money they earned.
, POLI 2051 Final Questions With Complete
Solutions
Incrementalism the best predictor of this year's budget is last year's budget plus a little bit
more.
Medicare in 1965, this program was added to Social Security to provide hospital and
physician coverage to the elderly.
Reconciliation revisions of program authorizations to make the final budget meet the
limits of the budget resolution, usually occurring toward the end of the budgetary process.
Revenues money received by the government in any given year.
Senate Finance Committee responsible for writing the tax code.
Sixteenth Amendment passed in 1913, permits Congress to levy an income tax.
Social Security Act passed to provide a minimal level of sustenance to older Americans.
Tax expenditures: revenue losses due to special exemptions, exclusions, and deductions.
Solutions
Pocket veto this occurs when Congress adjourns within 10 days after submitting a bill and
the president takes no action to sign it or veto it.
Presidential coattails where voters cast their ballots for congressional candidates of the
president's party because those candidates support the president.
Twenty-fifth Amendment passed in 1967, permits the vice president to become acting
president in the event that the president is temporarily disabled.
Twenty-second Amendment passed in 1951, limits presidents to two terms.
Veto sending the legislation back to Congress with reasons for rejecting it.
War Powers Resolution passed in 1973, requires presidents to consult with Congress prior
to using military force and mandates the withdrawal of forces after sixty days unless Congress
declares war or grants an extension.
, POLI 2051 Final Questions With Complete
Solutions
Watergate a political scandal involving President Nixon's abuse of his powers.
Appropriations bill bill passed annually to fund an authorized program.
Authorization bill an act of Congress that establishes a discretionary government program
or an entitlement, or that continues or changes such programs.
Budget a policy document that allocates burdens (taxes) and benefits (expenditures).
Budget resolution a bill setting limits on expenditures based on revenue projections,
agreed to by both houses of Congress in April each year.
Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 an act designed to reform
the budgeting process by making Congress less dependent on the president's budget; established
a fixed budget calendar and a budget committee in each house.
Congressional Budget Office (CBO) research agency of Congress, responsible to it for
providing analyses of budget proposals, revenue forecasts, and related information.
, POLI 2051 Final Questions With Complete
Solutions
Continuing resolutions laws that allow agencies to spend at the previous year's level.
Deficit occurs when government spends more money than it receives in taxes in the fiscal
year.
Entitlements expenditures for which the total amount spent is not by congressional
appropriation, but rather by rules of eligibility established by Congress.
Expenditures money spent by the government in any one year.
Federal debt all of the money borrowed by the government over the years that is still
outstanding.
House Ways and Means Committee responsible for originating all revenue bills.
Income tax the portion of money individuals are required to pay to the government from
the money they earned.
, POLI 2051 Final Questions With Complete
Solutions
Incrementalism the best predictor of this year's budget is last year's budget plus a little bit
more.
Medicare in 1965, this program was added to Social Security to provide hospital and
physician coverage to the elderly.
Reconciliation revisions of program authorizations to make the final budget meet the
limits of the budget resolution, usually occurring toward the end of the budgetary process.
Revenues money received by the government in any given year.
Senate Finance Committee responsible for writing the tax code.
Sixteenth Amendment passed in 1913, permits Congress to levy an income tax.
Social Security Act passed to provide a minimal level of sustenance to older Americans.
Tax expenditures: revenue losses due to special exemptions, exclusions, and deductions.
