FREE AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT CHAPTER 14 AP GOV

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FREE AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT CHAPTER 14 AP GOV

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-Guarantee passing score -23 Questions and Answers -format set of multiple-choice -Expert-Verified Explanation Question 1: Reconciliation:

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A cognressional process through which program authorixations are revised to achieve required savings.It is usally also includes tax or other revenue adjustments.Question 2: Entitlements:

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Policies for which the congress has obligated itself to pay x level of benefits to y number of people.Example is social security.Question 3: Social security act:

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A 1935 law passed during great depression that was intended to provide a minimal level of sustenance to older americans and this save them from poverty.

Question 4: Congressional Budget and Impoundment control act of 1974

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An act designed to reform the congressional budgetary process. Its supporters hoped that it would also make congress less dependent on the presidents budget and better able to set and meet its own budgetary goals.

Question 5: Budget resolution

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A resolution bingding congress to a total expenditute level, supposefly the bottom line of all federal spending for all programs.Question 6: Budget:

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A policy document allocating burdens and benefits Question 7: Uncontrollable expenditures:

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Expenditures that are determined not by a fixed amount of money appropriated by congress byr by how many elgigilbe beneficiaries there are for a program or by previosu obligations of the government.

Question 8: Federal debt

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All money borrowed by the federal government over the years and still outstanding. Today the federal debt is over 8 trillion dollars Question 9: Medicare:

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A program added to the social security system in 1964 that provides hospitalization insurance for the elderly and permits older americans to purchase inexpensive coverage for doctor fees and other health expenses.Question 10: Tax expenditures:

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Revenue losses that result from special exemptions, exclusions or deductions Question 11: Authorization bull:

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An act of congress that establishes, contineues, or changes a discretionary government program or an entitilement. It specifies program goals and maximum expendiues for discretionary programs.

Question 12: Congression Budget office:

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Advices congress on probably consequences of its decision, forecasts revenues, and is a counterweight to the presidents OMB.Question 13: Expenditures:

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Federal spending of revenues. Major areas of spending are social, services and the military.Question 14: Continuing resolutions:

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When congress cannot reach agremnt and pass approapriations bills, and these resolutions allow agencies to spend at the level of the previous year.Question 15: Sixteenth Amendment:

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the constitutional amendment adopted in 1913 that explicitly permitted congress to levy an income tax.Question 16: Senate finance committee:

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Along with the house and wats, writes the tax codes, subject to approval of congress as a whole Question 17: Revenues:

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The financial resources of the federal government. The individual income tax and social security tax are two major sources of revenue.Question 18: Budget and Impoundment act provisions:

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A fixed budget calendar. This is a timetable mandated by the law.A Budget Committee in each house. Have until April 1st to establish target figures.A Congressional budget office. Advises congress on all bad and good consequences of is budget.

Question 19: Deficit:

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An excess of federal expenditures over the federal revenues

Question 20: Who are the 4 major players in the budgeting process?

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congress, president, bureaucracy, and court.Question 21: Income tax:

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shares of individual wages and corporate revenues collected by the government. The first income tax was declared unconstitutional by the supreme court.Question 22: incrementalism:

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The belief that the best predictor of the this years budget is last years, plus a little more (an increment).According to arron wildavsky, most of the budget is a prdocut of previsous decisions.

Question 23: House ways and means committee

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The house along with the senate finance committee write the tax codes