The process for electing the president that involves the voting population choosing a slate of electors who are pledged to vote for the nominee in the presidential election is called the ______.
a. Congress of Judges
b. Presidential Selection Committee
c. Electoral College
d. Congressional Delegation
c. Electoral College
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The community of bloggers is known as the _______
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
Which of these is not true of Texas's response to transportation challenges? a. The mind-set of the Texas Department of Transportation has been to favor highway transportation over rail mass transit. b. There has been a complex of interest groups in place, including oil companies,cement/asphalt/tire dealers, bus and truck companies, and road-building contractors, that has had economic
interests in pushing government to build more roads instead of mass transit. c. Texas has responded to transportation issues by being at the forefront of efforts to make cars cleaner and safer. d. Although Texans dislike toll roads, the state has slowly been building them. e. Although many city leaders have lent their support to mass transit, the construction of light-rail systems has been slow, and not always satisfactory.
Standing to sue is the:
A) requirement that a controversy being brought to court is real and substantial, as opposed to academic or hypothetical. B) basis for federal court jurisdiction over a lawsuit that arises when the parties in the lawsuit live in different states. C) ruling that a person has disobeyed a court order or has shown disrespect to the court or to a judicial proceeding. D) basis for federal court jurisdiction over a lawsuit that arises when one of the parties is a foreign citizen. E) requirement that an individual must have a sufficient stake in a controversy before he or she can bring a lawsuit.
Texas spends less than _________ of total state expenditures on legislative staff salaries, services, and accommodations
a. 0.3 percent b. 3 percent c. 13 percent d. 20 percent e. 30 percent