Assignments to committees are ______.
A. chosen by the majority party
B. drawn by lot, or chance
C. irrelevant because the chair of a committee can override the appointments and remove any member
D. made by party committees under firm control of senior party leaders and ratified by the party membership
Answer: D
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A) Manipulates B) Draws causal conclusions from C) Does not manipulate D) Measures and manipulates Fill in the blank with the correct answer.
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A) The decision in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas B) The formation of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) C) Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to vacate her seat in the white section of a segregated bus D) Martin Luther King, Jr.'s march on Washington E) The passage of the Civil Rights Act
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a. Concentration in the communications industry b. An increase in the number of foreign correspondents c. Increased competition for markets d. The tendency in the profession for journalists to be generalists rather than specialists