What is sequestration, and how has the Pentagon dealt with budget cuts from the sequester?
What will be an ideal response?
Sequestration is automatic spending cuts in the Budget Control Act of 2011. Pentagon officials have tried to come to agreements with lawmakers to eliminate spending caps but thus far have failed. Instead, they have relied on the Overseas Contingency Operation, which is exempt from the Budget Control Act. Though it was initially intended to be used for the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars, the Pentagon has been able to use it to cover budget shortfalls in a variety of areas.
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a) Medicaid b) Cost-of-living adjustment c) IRAs d) Affordable Healthcare Act
Why do factions continue to raise serious problems for American democracy?
a. Because candidates rationally champion widely shared values and interests. b. The resources needed to gain influence—money, access, and expertise—are distributed very unevenly. c. There are too many lobbying groups dedicated to some moral vision of the public good. d. The interest group universe has grown smaller so that those people without resources are always disadvantaged.
At the national level, the United States has often been described as which type of state?
a. a one-party conservative Democratic state b. a one-party conservative Republican state c. a competitive two-party state d. a one-party liberal Democratic state e. a one-party liberal Republican state
Britain's party system led to a(n) "__________ parliament" and shaky government following the 2010 elections
A) tenacious B) hung C) grateful D) inept