The ______ first illustrated the problem of high U.S. energy use.
A. 1958 Sputnik launch
B. 1962 publication of Silent Spring
C. 1973 OPEC embargo
D. 2006 release of An Inconvenient Truth
C. 1973 OPEC embargo
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Which statement about the Rules Committee is true?
a. Bills must go there before reaching the floor. b. It decides if amendments to a bill will be permitted. c. It assigns a bill a rule. d. All of the above.
The power of the House Appropriations Committee over agency budgets has recently diminished, in part because of
A) an increase in marking-up practices by other House committees. B) the large amount of Congress's time taken up with trying to keep spending down. C) the 1983 Supreme Court ruling on the legislative veto. D) a decline in the use of trust funds by Congress. E) an increase in legislative inducements to restrict spending on entitlement programs.
One way that appropriations committees have lost their power is because Congress changed many programs from permanent authorization to __________ authorization
A) monthly B) three-year C) annual D) bimonthly E) nonrenewable
Presidential candidates who accept federal funding for their general election campaigns
A. are subject to strict expenditure limits. B. can spend unlimited amounts of their own money but cannot spend any money donated to their campaign through a political action committee. C. can spend unlimited amounts of money donated to their campaign through a political action committee but cannot spend any of their own money. D. face no limits on their expenditures.