The example of the 1998 Senate Finance Committee hearings on the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) illustrates that
A) elected officials have no power to curb bureaucratic abuses.
B) the public has no power to curb bureaucratic abuses.
C) bureaucratic agencies always work against the public interest.
D) if a bureaucratic agency makes life difficult for the voting public, that agency is more likely to be taken to task by elected officials.
E) the Supreme Court is willing to intervene in the actions of the federal bureaucracy.
D
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In order to appeal a case beyond the state supreme court directly to the U.S. Supreme Court, a losing party must ____________
A) gain approval of its respective state senators B) have approval of the governor C) start over in the state judicial system D) demonstrate there is a federal question at issue E) show that the U.S. Supreme Court has addressed similar cases in the past
Which of the following is false?
a. The National Security Strategy of the United States revised and released one year after the World Trade Center attacks put forward a new policy for checking the threat of nuclear war that relied on preemption. b. A significant number of officials in the administration of George W. Bush felt that the United States had erred during the first Gulf War in 1991 in not pressing the operation all the way to Baghdad and ousting Saddam Hussein. c. In the late 1990s, Saddam Hussein’s regime in Baghdad tested a low-yield nuclear warhead. d. The comprehensive 9/11 Commission Report, published in 2004, offered no evidence of collaborative ties between Iraq and al-Qaida.
__________ refers to the scope of involvement abroad and the collection of goals, strategies, and instruments that are selected by governmental policymakers
a. National interest c. Politics b. Foreign policy d. State