Exam 9: The Executive Branch

A) The Texas attorney general
B) The U.S.Department of Justice
C) The Texas comptroller of public accounts
D) The Texas Department of Transportation
E) The lieutenant governor

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A) Spoils system
B) Patronage system
C) Senatorial courtesy
D) Executive privilege
E) Merit system

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A) George W.Bush was the only governor to have the legislature override his vetoes.
B) The legislature has overridden most vetoes in the modern era.
C) Overriding a veto has occurred only once since the O'Daniel administration in 1941.
D) There has never been a successful veto override in Texas.
E) The Texas legislature routinely overrides more vetoes than any other state legislature.

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A) The governor's office
B) The attorney general's office
C) The Texas Rangers
D) The state bureaucracy
E) The Texas Supreme Court

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A) Texas land commissioner
B) U.S.Department of Defense
C) Texas Agriculture Commission
D) Adjutant general,Texas Military Forces
E) Texas Environmental Board

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A) Texas State Guard
B) U.S.Army
C) U.S.National Guard
D) Texas Maritime Commission
E) Every police force in Texas

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A) Lieutenant governor,secretary of state,attorney general
B) Lieutenant governor,chief justice of the Supreme Court of Texas,attorney general
C) Lieutenant governor,president pro tempore of the Senate,agriculture commissioner
D) Lieutenant governor,president pro tempore of the Senate,Speaker of the House,attorney general,chief justices of the 14 courts of appeals
E) Lieutenant governor,senior U.S.senator from Texas,senior U.S.representative from Texas

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A) Texas Border Patrol
B) Texas Maritime Commission
C) Texas Rangers
D) Texas Department of Public Safety
E) Texas Joint Chiefs of Staff

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A) Offer revenue bonds for sale when the state is out of money.
B) Reduce spending for all programs when funding gets within 30 percent of running out.
C) Stop payments to those who have been on welfare support for two years.
D) Balance the Texas state budget for each fiscal year.
E) Certify that appropriations bills passed by the legislature can be covered by expected revenue.

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A) S.W.T.Lanham
B) Oscar Branch Colquitt
C) E.J.Davis
D) Andrew Jackson Hamilton
E) Ann W.Richards

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A) A simple majority
B) Three-fifths
C) Three-fourths
D) All of them
E) Two-thirds

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A) It has become increasingly more diverse.
B) It has been limited to 185 through an amendment to the Texas Constitution.
C) It has shrunk chiefly because governors have become less active recently.
D) It has become less important thanks to social media.
E) It has grown in power due to limits in the governor's ability to hire and fire staff members.

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A) The governor has no veto power over appropriations bills.
B) The governor is solely responsible for submitting the state's budget.
C) The governor may call a limited number of special sessions.
D) The governor has absolute veto power without challenge once the legislature has adjourned.
E) The governor may issue only three vetoes during any one term in office.

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A) Legislative veto
B) Recess appointment
C) Vacancy appointment
D) Senatorial courtesy
E) Habeas corpus

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