When a committee chairperson sets a bill aside to ignore it rather than to send it to a subcommittee, the bill has been _____.

A. pigeonholed
B. vetoed
C. marked up
D. reported
E. referred


Answer: A

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A. birthright citizenship B. inherited citizenship C. citizenship naturalization D. cultural citizenship

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A) precedent. B) staff. C) journalists. D) town-hall meetings with constituents. E) Congress.

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