Identify the types of tools employed by Congress to fulfill its oversight functions.

What will be an ideal response?


Congress has a series of tools it employs to fulfill its oversight functions. These include congressional hearings, in which various groups testify on policy implementation and impact; confirmation hearings on presidential appointees to oversee executive departments; investigations of law, policy, and bureaucratic or governmental misconduct; and budgetary appropriations that determine funding of governmental agencies.

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Following Paine's publication of Common Sense, the Second Continental Congress:

A. suggested that all colonies establish state governments separate from Britain. B. voted for free trade at all American ports with all countries including Britain. C. immediately accepted the resolution for independence proposed by Richard Henry Lee of Virginia. D. appointed Paine as the commander in chief of its army. E. decided to declare war on Britain.

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Grassroots lobbying occurs when

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Describe the difference between how those opposed to gay rights and those supporting gay rights view the movement.

What will be an ideal response?

Political Science

The Supreme Court has adopted _____________ metaphor of a "wall of separation between church and state" as capturing the essential meaning of the Establishment Clause

a. James Madison's b. Thomas Jefferson's c. Alexander Hamilton's d. None of the above is true.

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