Which is NOT true of the legislative trends due to the changing population trends?
A. The South & West gained 40 seats in Congress between 1980 and 2000
B. The large urban centers of New York, Baltimore, Chicago & Cleveland have experienced declining population
C. The North & Northeast have gained congressional seats
D. Voting patterns reflect demographic changes
C
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According to the text, the first president to raise cultivation of the media to an art form was
A. Theodore Roosevelt. B. Woodrow Wilson. C. Herbert Hoover. D. Franklin Roosevelt. E. William McKinley.
Identify at least two public interest groups and explain their functions and issues.
What will be an ideal response?
Jim Drinkard describes the pharmaceutical lobby in Washington as
a. waning in influence since the 2004 election. b. traditionally weak and fragmented. c. one of the strongest and most well-connected lobby in the city. d. gaining in influence since the 2004 election, but it is still relatively weak.
Which of the following statements about the federal bureaucracy's rule-making powers is LEAST accurate?
A. Bureaucratic agencies are often tasked with drafting specific rules to meet general guidelines established by Congress. B. The public is allowed to submit written proposals to an agency that is drafting new rules. C. Bureaucratic agencies must post a notice in the Federal Register before they can put a new rule into effect. D. The bureaucratic agents who are tasked with drafting many of the rules that put congressional policy into action are not elected by the American people. E. As the federal bureaucracy has expanded over the past fifty years, it has grown more distant from the American people and less willing to give them a voice in rule making.