Explain the role of committees in Congress and discuss their power in the legislative process.
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Assignment to the more prestigious of Congressional committees, such as the House Ways and Means Committee or Armed Services Committee, is frequently damaging to representatives' careers, and thus, they tend to avoid these assignments
Indicate whether this statement is true or false.
When eleven communists were convicted under the Smith Act of 1940, the Supreme Court
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How can stable and coherent public opinion arise from unstable and incoherent individual opinions?
a. Pollsters have developed weighting systems that allow them to identify the most informed respondents so their responses count more. b. Measurement errors and random individual changes tend to cancel one another out and the average remains the same if the circumstances remain the same. c. New technologies and platforms have allowed pollsters to draw better samples that reduce the amount of measurement error in polls. d. It can arise through opinion leaders who canvass their friends and answer polling questions consistently over time.
Evidence that federalism was incorporated into the national government can be found in __________
a. Congress's representation based on population b. having two Senators from each state regardless of size c. the Supreme Court's term limits d. the provision for the office of Vice President