Which of the following standing committees can be found in the House but not the Senate?
a. Judiciary
b. Oversight
c. Agriculture
d. Appropriations
b
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Almost every president since Hoover has tried to
A. increase the size of the federal government. B. decrease the size of the military. C. decrease the size of the federal government. D. reorganize the executive branch. E. increase the size of the press corps.
During the height of the Cold War, which of the following actions would have been the most likely for the United States to take with a country in which communist insurgents were rapidly gaining ground?
a. send an ambassador to negotiate a peaceful agreement between the government and the insurgents b. back the communist rebels so that when they completely gained power, the United States would be in their good graces c. provide aid to the government in fighting the communist rebels d. place economic sanctions on the country until both sides agreed to stop fighting and reached a peaceful agreement e. extend diplomatic immunity to government officials who wanted to escape to America
A comparison of state agencies headed by a single executive with state agencies headed by boards or commissions found that:
A. multi-headed commissions improve representation in the bureaucratic process. B. multi-headed commissions performed consistently better than single executive agencies. C. single executive agencies consistently performed better than multi-headed commissions. D. single-headed agencies perform a heat absorption function not performed by multi-headed commissions.
Which of the following can be a problem for interest groups?
a. free rider problem b. maintianing membership c. attracting new members d. funding e. All of these