What is the partisan filibuster and when did it emerge? How does it differ from the traditional use of the filibuster?
What will be an ideal response?
The partisan filibuster is the process by which most or all the Senate’s majority party agenda is systematically blocked by an organized minority party filibuster. This is in contrast to the traditional use of the filibuster only on specific issues with great importance to a region or constituency. It emerged in the first 2 years of the Clinton presidency (or students could say in the early 1990s) and has escalated since then.
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A. True B. False
The sexual relationship between President Clinton and Monica Lewinski was first reported by
a. CBS Evening News. b. Newsweek. c. Matt Drudge's Web site, the Drudge Report. d. Sixty Minutes. e. Meet the Press.
People living a subsistence agricultural lifestyle in low-income states have
a. lowered both the birth and death rates. b. lowered the birth rate since they die at an early age. c. produced the workforce for the manufacturing and service sectors. d. increased the birth rate as the economy grows. e. needed to give birth to many children.
Research conducted on children must always evaluate which threat to internal validity?
a. maturation b. regression to the mean c. history d. placebo