Outline the five sequential features of the congressional legislative process, or how a bill becomes law.
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A bill must generally pass through five steps to become law: introduction, when a legislator formally proposes it; committee review, when subgroups within the House or Senate review it; House and Senate approval, where a majority of members in both houses must approve it; conference committee reconciliation, which reconciles House and Senate versions; and presidential approval, when the bill is signed by the president.
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A. The United States has refused to enter into any trade agreements with Mexico since the end of the Mexican War in 1848. B. The nations had gone to war with each other in the 1840s; this was followed by a series of occupations in Mexico by American troops protecting U.S. economic and security interests. C. Mexico has refused to give up its claims to South Texas and other regions ceded to the United States at the end of the Mexican War. D. The United States initiated a process in the early 1900s to construct a border wall between the two nations.
Which of the following was a consequence of Gorbachev's economic reforms?
A. consolidation of the USSR B. collapse of the state system C. a shrinking black market D. an unprecedented rise in supply of goods E. a rise in the production of basic goods and food items
Armed conflict between two or more states is known as ________ war, while armed conflict between competing factions within a state is known as ________
A) ?civil; conventional B) ?conventional; extra-systemic C) ?conventional; interstate D) ?extra-systemic; civil E) ?interstate; civil
Those with a shared-technology perspective find international governmental organizations (IGOs) especially valuable in dealing with pandemics because they
a. have experience in dealing with worldwide problems. b. have access to wealth from member countries. c. do not have to make a profit. d. do not have the specific problems of any specific state. e. All of the above are correct.