Which term refers to members of Congress bundling unrelated laws together to benefit projects in their own districts?

a. Budget trading
b. Vote cycling
c. Logrolling
d. Pork-barrel spending


c. Logrolling

Logrolling is an action in which all members of a group of legislators agree to vote for a package of otherwise unrelated laws that they individually favor.

Economics

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a. true b. false

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