Reference no: EM13663098

Burdett. The Contemporary Congress from your Loomis textbook. In addition to this, the articles you need to read from the Walkk Street Journal are as follows:

In State of the Union, Obama Makes Middle-Class Pitch and How Congress Can Avoid Future Generational Warfare.

These two articles can be found by searching their titles within the WSJ website.

QUESTION 1

"Republicans won a majority of seats in ____ and have retained majorities in each congress since then."

A. 2000

B. 1972

C. 1990

D. 1994

QUESTION 2

1. If Congress does not make any changes, they will be eventually be faced with which choices?

A. Cut programs elsewhere in the budget

B. Cut current Social Security and or/ Medical Benefits

C. All of the above

D. Raising Taxes

QUESTION 3

"Party divisions and organizational strength would vary over the next four decades, but by ____, the beginnings of a stable party system with regular leaders and consistent voting patterns had taken firm hold as a centralizing force within the white house."

A. 1825

B. 2015

C. 1966

D. 1900

QUESTION 4

1. The Framers engineered some design features into the Constitution to reduce the possibility of systematic abuse. What was one of these characteristics?

A. Disallowing only women from voting

B. The separation of powers at the national level into the legislative, judicial, and executive branches.

C. Disallowing the public from voting

QUESTION 5

"Though the House could consolidate power around the constitutional office of the ______, the ______ had no similar touchstone."

A. House, Senate

B. Speaker, Senate

C. Senate, Speaker

D. Senate, House

QUESTION 6

1. According to the WSJ, Obama's economic agenda is hinging on what?

A. Raising taxes on high-income Americans

B. Giving away more money to high-income Americans

QUESTION 7

"Democrats __________ generate consistent congressional majorities to pass major policy initiatives.

A. Could not

B. Could

QUESTION 8

What is one of the options that Congress could consider to enhance the sustainability of both Social Security and Medicare?

A. Increase the Medicare eligibility age to the same age as Social Security full retirement

B. Euthanize everyone who reaches the age of 65

C. Ship anyone over the age of 65 to third world countries

QUESTION 9

In a video posted to Facebook, John Boehner stated that

A. "The President needs to leave the middle class alone"

B. "Making government bigger isn't going to help the middle class"

C. "The President is really trying to help the middle class"

D. "Making government bigger is going to help the middle class"

QUESTION 10

"The politics of Congress remains a politics of _________, even as partisan electoral lines harden in individual constituencies and strong party leadership flourishes on Capitol Hill."

A. The People

B. Coercion

C. Representation