Which of the following committee assignments would confer the most power and influence on members of the Senate?
a. Budget
b. Energy and Natural Resources
c. Environment and Public Works
d. Governmental Affairs
e. Appropriations
Ans: e. Appropriations
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A. Every boat must fish at a pace to sustain the ecosystem, and in the end, no one gets enough fish. B. Every boat faces an incentive to catch as many fish as it can as quickly as possible because it knows that other boats will do the same thing-eventually leading to the collapse of the fishery's ecosystem. C. The fishing, while at a reasonable pace, is unregulated. D. A cod fishery is not like the tragedy of the commons.
Although the speech in question was suppressed, the Court in Gitlow v. New York held that not all forms of __________ can be limited
a. hate speech b. symbolic speech c. political speech d. fighting words e. obscenity
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a. Cal-SPAN. b. the California Channel. c. the Golden State Network. d. State Government In Focus.