Which of the following statements best describes Congress's influence over agency budgets?
a. Congress has final say over all department budgets, but has no control of the budgets of independent agencies.
b. Congress has final say over the budgets of independent agencies, but has no control of department budgets.
c. Congress has the authority to appropriate money to agencies.
d. Congress influences the initial budget proposal, but depends on the president for appropriations of federal money.
Answer: c
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A. There has been a dramatic decrease in legalized gambling in the United States. B. All states permit legalized casino gambling. C. State revenues from non-lottery gambling decrease every year since 1998. D. The spread of casinos was in part a consequence of Native American tribes asserting their right to self-rule on reservations. E. Legalized gambling is one of the largest revenue sources for local government.
To varying degrees, socialists generally agree that a. providing for public ownership and control of a substantially more egalitarian society will improve humanrelations in general
b. private property cannot be permitted. c. democracy cannot be allowed to prevent the creation of an egalitarian society. d. "freedom from" hunger, disease, and poverty must be earned. e. equality of opportunity is a sufficient goal.
What country invaded Mexico in 1861, thereby influencing the American Civil War?
What will be an ideal response?
The supremacy clause, stipulated in Article VI of the Constitution, holds that
A. in a conflict between federal and state laws, the former will override the latter. B. in the federal system established by the Constitution, the true source of sovereignty is in the people. C. federal laws will be supreme in the national sphere, and state laws will be supreme in local affairs. D. despite temporarily sacrificing certain powers to the federal government, the state governments remain sovereign entities. E. as a sovereign institution, the only limits that the federal government need obey are ones that it establishes for itself.