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Constitutional Powers

DIRECTIONS Use the information in your textbook to complete the diagram.

DIRECTIONS Use the information in your textbook to complete the chart.★

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Guided Reading Activity 6-1

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LEGISLATIVE POWERS OF CONGRESS

NONLEGISLATIVE POWERS OF CONGRESS

Powers How They Work

EXAMPLESPOWERS

Investigations and Oversight

DIRECTIONS Use the information in your textbook to complete the chart by listing three congressionalinvestigative powers that are similar to those of a court and explaining why these powers are effective.

DIRECTIONS Use the information in your textbook to complete the chart. Then list ways Congressexercises its oversight power.

List three ways Congress exercises its oversight power.

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Congress

The Executive Branch

LEGISLATIVE OVERSIGHT: AN EXAMPLE OF CHECKS AND BALANCES

Branch of Government Function Way to Exercise Checks and Balances

CONGRESSIONAL INVESTIGATIVE POWERS

Powers Why They Are Effective

CAUSES OF CONFLICT BETWEEN CONGRESS AND THE PRESIDENT


Congress and the President

DIRECTIONS Use the information in your textbook to complete the diagram.

DIRECTIONS Use the information in your textbook to complete the chart. First, list the two importantareas in which Congress has recently gained power over the executive branch. Below the area titles, brieflydescribe how Congress has accomplished each task.

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Effort: Effort:

How Accomplished How Accomplished

SUCCESSFUL CONGRESSIONAL EFFORTS TO CURB EXECUTIVE POWER

Example Example Example Example


How a Bill Becomes Law

DIRECTIONS Use the information in your textbook to complete these sentences.

BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS

1. oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo usually deal with individual people or places.

2. oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo apply to the entire nation. They may be controversial, dealing with such

issues as oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo , oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo , or oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo .

3. oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo deal with internal matters of only one house of Congress.

4. When both houses of Congress agree, they may pass a oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo , for example to correct

an error in an oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo or to oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo for a special purpose.

5. oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo , on the other hand, do not have the force of law and do not require the

president’s signature. Yet, to take effect, oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo of Congress must pass them.

6. Fewer than 10 percent of the bills introduced in Congress become public laws. Three reasons that so few

bills become laws are: ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

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7. The ideas for new bills may come from oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo , oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo ,

oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo , or officials in the ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo branch.

8. To introduce a bill in the House, a member must oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo .

9. To introduce a bill in the Senate, oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo .

DIRECTIONS Use the information in your textbook to define the following terms:

INTRODUCING A BILL

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B. hearings ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

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C. quorum ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

D. voice vote oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo


E. standing vote ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo


F. recorded vote ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo


G. role-call vote ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo


H. veto oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

I. pocket veto ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo


J. line-item veto oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo


Taxing and Spending Bills

DIRECTIONS Use the information in your textbook to complete the chart.

DIRECTIONS Use the information in your textbook to complete the chart.★

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Committee Name

What They Can Do

What They Cannot Do



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Name of Committee Name of Committee

What It Does What It Does

HOUSE AND SENATE INFLUENCE ON TAX BILLS

House Senate

HOW HOUSE AND SENATE APPROPRIATE MONEY

House and Senate Committees


Influencing Congress

DIRECTIONS Use the information in your textbook to complete the diagram. Identify the individualsand groups that influence lawmakers. Write one influential person or group on each arrow.

DIRECTIONS Match the political parties with the issues they support. Check the line under the nameof the political party that usually supports each type of issue.

Republicans Democrats

ooooooooooooooo help for low-income people and projects oooooooooooooooo

ooooooooooooooo limited government intervention in the economy oooooooooooooooo

ooooooooooooooo less government spending

ooooooooooooooo social welfare programs oooooooooooooooo

ooooooooooooooo greater government regulation of business oooooooooooooooo

ooooooooooooooo job programs through public works oooooooooooooooo

ooooooooooooooo less government regulation of business oooooooooooooooo

ooooooooooooooo local and state, rather than national, solutions to problems oooooooooooooooo

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MAJOR INFLUENCES ON LAWMAKERS

SENATOR OR

REPRESENTATIVE

THE INFLUENCE OF PARTY POLITICS ON COMMON ISSUES


Helping Constituents

DIRECTIONS Use the information in your textbook to complete the chart.

DIRECTIONS Use the information in your textbook to complete the diagram. Give an example ofeach of the ways in which legislators bring federal money and projects into their states.

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LEGISLATORS’ CASEWORK

Examples of Casework Purposes of Casework

Pork-Barrel Federal Grants and Keeping Federal

Legislation Contracts Projects

BRINGING HOME THE BACON: HOW LAWMAKERS WORK FOR THEIR STATES’ SHARE

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