Select a House or Senate committee of interest to you. Do the members seem to have been appointed for distributive, informational, or partisan purposes? What types of activities have the committee recently engaged in, and how do these fit with the different purposes of congressional committees?
What will be an ideal response?
Students should select a committee and research its members and recent activities using news and governmental sources. They should consider the membership and activity of the committee in light of concepts and theories in the text. The best papers with draw together this information under a common theme/argument.
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Texas Governor Rick Perry believed so firmly in protecting states' rights that he often invoked the _____ Amendment during his 14-year tenure as governor
A) Twenty-Fourth B) Tenth C) Fourteenth D) Eighth
Private international organizations whose activities parallel those of interest groups, (e.g. advancing human rights, fighting poverty, improving labor conditions, supporting education, protecting children’s rights, etc.) are known as ________________________.
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
Discuss the two major economic worries faced by members of Congress:
unemployment and inflation. What options are available to address them? What will be an ideal response?
The reins of political power in Iran currently belong to
a. moderates. b. reformers. c. nongovernmental organizations. d. hard-liners. e. radicals.