Who S Who in American Government

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Who’s Who in American Government

List out the person in each position and answer the questions below. Don’t forget to also take the quiz at the link provided below and report (or print out) your results.

Executive Branch

President of the United States

Vice-President of the United States

Chief of Staff to the President

First Lady

UN Ambassador

Fed Chair

Secretaryof State

Secretaryof the Treasury

Secretaryof Defense

Attorney General

Secretaryof the Interior

Secretaryof Agriculture

Secretaryof Commerce

Secretaryof Labor

Secretaryof Health and Human Services

Secretaryof Housing and Urban Development

Secretaryof Transportation

Secretaryof Energy

Secretary of Education

Secretaryof Veterans Affairs

Secretary of Homeland Security

Judicial Branch

Chief Justice of the Supreme Court:

List the 8 Associate Justices:

List the 3 recently retired judges:

Legislative Branch

Senate

President of the Senate (name and party)

President Pro Tempore (name and party)

Majority Leader (name and party)

Majority Whip (name and party)

Minority Leader (name and party)

Minority Whip (name and party)

Give both U.S. Senators from Texas (name and party)

How many U.S. Senators are Republican?

How many U.S. Senators are Democrat?

How many U.S. Senators are Independent?

House of Representatives

Speaker of the House (name and party)

Majority Leader (name and party)

Majority Whip (name and party)

Minority Leader (name and party)

Minority Whip (name and party)

How many Texas representatives are in the House?

How many are Republican?

How many are Democrat?

How many are Independent?

Austin and the surrounding area are actually split up among 6 different districts. Is it common for this to happen to a major city? According to what we have learned in our class, how do you think this happened?

List the 6 different districts (the numbers) Representatives in the Austin area (name and party).

What district (give the number) is your address in and who is your Representative (name and party)?

Go to

Take the quiz about your social attitude. What are the percentages for the different views (the lines under Political Views)?

Give a summary of what the test indicated about your political attitude. You may either write a summary or attach a printout of the results.

Do you agree or disagree?