Legislative Processes Quiz

What is Pork Barrel Spending?

• Legislation that directs specific funds to projects within districts or states.

• Trading of votes on legislation by members of Congress.

• Efforts by Congress to ensure legal actions by executive branches.

• The process of determining the number of representatives for each state.

What does Logrolling refer to in a legislative context?

• The process of determining the number of representatives for each state.

• Trading of votes on legislation by members of Congress to get their earmarks passed.

• The intentional use of redistricting to benefit a specific interest.

• The uneven distribution of the population between legislative districts.

What is the purpose of Oversight by Congress?

• To ensure executive branch agencies are acting legally and in accordance with congressional goals.

• To redraw boundaries of electoral districts following each census.

• To benefit a specific interest or group of voters through redistricting.

• To determine the number of representatives for each state using census data.

What is a Constituency?

• A district in which voters of a minority ethnicity constitute an electoral majority.

• A body of voters in a given area who elect a representative or senator.

• The drawing of district boundaries into strange shapes to benefit a political party.

• The uneven distribution of the population between legislative districts.

What is Apportionment?

• The process of determining the number of representatives for each state using census data.

• The intentional use of redistricting to benefit a specific interest.

• The uneven distribution of the population between legislative districts.

• A political official who is currently in office.

What does Redistricting involve?

• The drawing of district boundaries into strange shapes to benefit a political party.

• States’ redrawing of boundaries of electoral districts following each census.

• The trading of votes on legislation by members of Congress.

• Institutional advantages held by those already in office.

What is Gerrymandering?

• The process of determining the number of representatives for each state.

• The intentional use of redistricting to benefit a specific interest or group of voters.

• The uneven distribution of the population between legislative districts.

• A district in which voters of a minority ethnicity constitute an electoral majority.

What is Partisan Gerrymandering?

• The drawing of district boundaries into strange shapes to benefit a political party.

• The process of determining the number of representatives for each state.

• The intentional use of redistricting to benefit a specific interest.

• The uneven distribution of the population between legislative districts.

What are Majority-minority districts?

• A district in which voters of a minority ethnicity constitute an electoral majority.

• The uneven distribution of the population between legislative districts.

• The process of determining the number of representatives for each state.

• The intentional use of redistricting to benefit a specific interest.

What is Malapportionment?

• The uneven distribution of the population between legislative districts.

• The process of determining the number of representatives for each state.

• The drawing of district boundaries into strange shapes to benefit a political party.

• The intentional use of redistricting to benefit a specific interest.