Which of the following is NOT a duty of a committee chair?

Which of the following is NOT a duty of a committee chair?
 
  a. Call committee meetings.
  b. Schedule when legislation is to be heard and voted upon in committee.
  c. Organize and structure committee hearings and schedule votes.
  d. Negotiate with the Governor to ensure his or her agenda is advanced.

 Q. 2

One example of an organization created to assist the legislature in determining whether adopted policies are being implemented according to legislative intent is
 
  a. administrative review.
  b. the bureaucracy.
  c. the Texas Supreme Court.
  d. the Texas Sunset Advisory Commission.
  e. the cabinet system.

 Q. 3

What do state lawmakers do to help solve the collective action problem?
 
  a. Select political party leaders.
  b. Pass specific legislation outlawing the collective action problem.
  c. Sign a contract agreeing to mutually cooperate.
  d. Provide monetary incentives to their members to secure their votes.

 Q. 4

The obligation of officials to be directly answerable to the voters for their actions, allowing elected administrators to ignore the wishes of the chief executive, is
 
  a. the cabinet system.
  b. official invisibility.
  c. administrative accountability.
  d. bureaucracy.
  e. elective accountability.

 Q. 5

Which of the following is NOT true regarding state legislative majorities?
 
  a. A party whose members control 51 percent of the seats or more will have disproportionately more controlover legislative decisions than the other party.
 b. Gaining a majority in a chamber is the Holy Grail of parties in state legislatures.
  c. If the majority party wants to paint its chamber polka dot, it can.
  d. Frequently, the minority party is able to crack the majority party, creating a coalition government.

 Q. 6

Usually the last determination of the meaning of a law and how rigidly it will be enforced is
 
  a. statutory lawmaking.
  b. administrative review.
  c. judicial review.
  d. committee review.
  e. Governor's review.

 Q. 7

Which type of committee deals with an ongoing, specified type of policy, such as new technologies, capital punishment, environmental policy or transportation policy?
 
  a. Joint
  b. Standing
  c. Select
  d. Special