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Who argues that Congress is not a defective institution once properly considered, appreciating the separation of powers?
Mayhew
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In what year did the Republican party follow the Democrats and move away from strict seniority in appointments?
1986
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The more homogenous the preferences of the majority party and the more distinct they are from the minority...
the larger the party effect
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Who says that 'the speakership - its power, style and role - is variable over time'?
Harris
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Who says ' the Senate majority leader lacks amny of the institutional tools the Speaker of the House possesses. Majorities simply cannot work their will the way they can in the House'?
Sinclair
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Which Speaker said that 'House rules, if you know how to use them, are tilted toward allowing the majority to get its will done'?
Wright
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Which Speaker has been criticized for having a more negative than positive role in priority setting?
McCormack in Nixon's govt
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Which Senate leader said: 'I am not a king and I have no princes'?
Mike Mansfield
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When was the Speaker first allowed to appoint members of the Rules Committee?
1975
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Who argues that the Rules Committee quickly transformed 'into an arm of the leadership. It can now be relied on to be a traffic cop that serves the leadership instead of one that serves the chairman of the committee'?
Oppenheimer
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Who argues that Senators are able to negotiate earmarks in their favour and therefore are more likely to toe the party line?
Shepsle
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Which recent Congress exhibited the exact conditions described in conditional party government?
104th
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What do Cox and McCubbins call a highly unified majority party?
a procedural cartel
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What percent of support for the Republican leadership among freshmen was there in the first 100 days of the 104th Congress?
97%
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Who argues that 'without a fellow partisan in the White House, majority party leaders in Congress have much more freedom and flexibility than they might enjoy under unified government'?
Bader
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When did the Senate Committee on Government Operations say 'Americans expect more integrity and energy of the men and women in government than the public thinks elected and career officials are now delivering'?
1973
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Who says that 'in recent years... the filibuster has been vilified as a primary threat to the ability of the american government to function'?
Bell
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Who uses the term filibuster to refer to any set of actions taken by a Senator or group of Senators to 'intentionally delay or prevent any measure, nomination or procedural activity from taking place'?
Wawro and Schlicker
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Who likens the majority party in the legislative chamber to a coalition government in a parliamentary regime... it takes work to hold the disparate elements of such a coalition together'?
Cox and McCubbins
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In which committee was civil rights legislation blocked up by a conservative coalition?
House Rules Committee
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Who says that the House has long been the more highly structured and rules-driven of the two-chambers?
Aldrich and Rohde
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Who argues that the House, despite variations in party, committee, seniority and other structures is foremost an institution governed by majority rule?
Krehbiel
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Who says that 'no one on the floor can be expected to "internalise the externalities" of the majority' as it is in no one's interests to act on behalf of the floor because everyone has partisan and personal interests to protect?
Cox and McCubbins
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Which speaker played a more active role in committee activities than any other Speaker in over eighty years?
Gingrich
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Who asserts that an opposition leader 'would be hard put to it to find anyone with a claim to national party leadership superior to his own' in a divided government?
Ralph Huitt
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What percentage of House incumbents running in 2012 won re-election?
91%
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What fraction of all filibusters have happened in the last 30 years?
two thirds
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How many committees are there in the House?
250
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What is the term limit for committee chairs in the House?
6 years
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What percentage of bills and resolutions emerge from committee?
14%
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In what year did 88% of democrats vote along party lines?
2005
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Which president said 'Congress is like a whiskey drinker... you have to feed it slowly otherwise it will reject it'?
LBJ
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