Congress

Halted all federal funding for the Vietnam War? (Power of the purse example.) (War powers example.)

Foreign Assistance Act 1974

Obama put forward an executive order for the closure of Guantanamo Bay. Congress used their power of the purse to block this move.

Supplemental Appropriations Act 2009

Trump removed wall funding from his budget to end the ongoing government shutdown and then declared a national emergency in order to secure funding for the wall without Congressional approval. (Example of the president bypassing the power of the purse.)

2019

Passed during the unified government of Obama’s first term.

Affordable Care Act 2010

Passed with unified government in the 1930s.

Roosevelt’s New Deal

The longest government shutdown in history over the inability of Trump and Congress to reach an agreement over an appropriations bill. Forced Trump to sign the bill.

2018-9

Government shutdown can also force Congress to make temporary whats as a short-term source of funding?  

‘Continuing resolutions’

Longest filibuster speech by a Republican senator for over 24 hours in order to prevent the passage of?

Civil Rights Act 1957

Point of order raised by the Senate Majority Leader, Harry Reid to lower cloture threshold for nominations (other than the Supreme Court) to a simple majority?

2013

The nuclear option was used again, this time by a Republican majority led by Mitch McConnell, to extend that precedent to Supreme Court nominations to allow the cloture threshold for Neil Gorsuch’s confirmation to be lowered?

2017

In the 117^th Congress, many Democrat promises including what were thwarted by Republican opposition in both the House and the Senate?

Changes to immigration policy and a 2 trillion-dollar social safety net and climate change bill

Donald Trump vetoed a resolution revoking his declaration of a national emergency at the US border wall?

2019

When was Kevin McCarthy ousted as speaker by a group of hard-right Republicans led by Matt Gaetz after his cooperation with Democrats to pass bipartisan continuing resolution to avert a government shutdown?

Congress overturned President Donald Trump's veto of a defence spending bill? (Bipartisan)

2021

Trump vetoes?

10

During what stage of a bill, the standing committee relevant to the policy area is responsible for holding hearings to listen to witnesses and vote on whether the bill should proceed to the House or Senate?

Hearing stage

Are formed to create a combined conference report when the House and the Senate have both passed different versions of the same bill?

Conference committees

Have increasingly prevented bills from going to conference committees in order to retain control over the final bill?

Party leaders

Temporary committee?

Conference committees

Witnesses and evidence can be requested to come before the committee or face sanctions?

Subpoena

Decides which bills make it to the floor in the House?

House Rules Committee

All money must originate in the?

House

Decides which bills make it to floor in the Senate?

Majority Leaders

Bills that are not heard by a committee are?

‘Pigeon holed’

If a bill is heard, Committee members will add in amendments to benefit their constituents - often that have nothing to do with the bill? What is this called?

Pork Barrelling

What bills died because they couldn’t get out of the committee stage?

Clinton’s healthcare reforms

When did the Senate Foreign Relations Committee carry out an investigation into the effects of NATO enlargement?

2022

What are elected via secret ballot and are always from the leading party?

Committee chairs

When did the House select committee on Benghazi question Hillary Clinton for more than 8 hours on her involvement in the 2012 Benghazi attack?

2015

What ratio is the House Rules committee weighted in favour of the majority party?

2:1

Which act was brought to the House floor via a discharge petition?

Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act 2002

Who was Chair of the House Rules Committee between 2017 and 2019 and used his position to prevent amendments that would’ve relaxed federal laws against marijuana use?

Pete Sessions

When was Pete Sessions chair of the House Rules Committee?

2017-2019