Should we increase the President's legislative powers?
SOURCE: Harold W.Stanley and Richard G Niemi,Vital Statistics on American Politics,2015
2016 (Los Angeles: CQ Press,2015) ,252-254.
NOTE: Win-rate percentages based on the number of congressional votes supporting the
president divided by the total number of votes on which the president took a position.
-Based on the graph,which of the following is true of presidents' "win rate" in Congress?
A) Congress tends to agree with the president more than it disagrees.
B) Presidents' "win rates" tend to be higher at the start of their terms.
C) Democratic presidents are more legislatively successful than Republicans.
D) Congress fails to check the president's power in most situations.-Consider This: Congress frequently defeats bills that the president supports,acting as a firm check on presidential power.
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