The Twenty-Seventh Amendment prevents lawmakers from:
a. Accepting gifts from campaign donors
b. receiving a pay raise that they voted for in their current term.
c. needing to pay income taxes on their congressional salaries
d. being convicted of felonies while in office
Ans: b. receiving a pay raise that they voted for in their current term.
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A) ?National Security Council B) ?Department of Defense C) ?intelligence community D) ?Foreign Affairs Committee E) ?National Security Agency
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