The power of the Rules Committee in the House of Representatives rests on its authority to choose the chairs of other standing committees and issue rules for the selection of subcommittee chairs Answer A: choose the chairs of other standing committees and issue rules for the selection of subcommittee chairs A initiate all spending legislation and hold budget hearings Answer B: initiate all spending legislation and hold budget hearings B place a bill on the legislative calendar, limit time for debate and determine the type of amendments allowed Answer C: place a bill on the legislative calendar, limit time for debate and determine the type of amendments allowed C determine the procedures by white nominations by the President will be approved by the House Answer D: determine the procedures by white nominations by the President will be approved by the House D Choose the President if no candidate wins a majority in the electoral college

Which political reform gave people the power to put a proposed law on the ballot? referendum initiative direct primary recall

Census data is an example of: public information. private behavior. private information. public behavior.

“dear sir: it is with great reluctance, i trouble you on a subject, which does not fall within your province; but it is a subject that occasions me more distress, than i have felt, since the commencement of the war; and which loudly demands the most zealous exertions of every person of weight and authority, who is interested in the success of our affairs. i mean the present dreadful situation of the army for want of provisions, and the miserable prospects before us, with respect to futurity. it is more alarming than you will probably conceive, for, to form a just idea, it were necessary to be on the spot. for some days past, there has been little less, than a famine in camp. a part of the army has been a week, without any kind of flesh, and the rest for three or four days. naked and starving as they are, we cannot enough admire the incomparable patience and fidelity of the soldiery, that they have not been ere this excited by their sufferings, to a general mutiny or dispersion. strong symptoms, however, discontent have appeared in particular instances; and nothing but the most acitive efforts every where can long avert so shocking a catastrophe.” what’s the central idea?