The Challenges That Spurred Members to Develop the Modern Congress

question 48

Multiple Choice

The challenges that spurred members to develop the modern Congress fall into two classes: problems besetting the House and Senate as organizations and problems arising from ______.

• A) reducing the scope of areas in which Congress passes laws or sets policies
• B) the competing individual and collective needs of members
• C) allocating more complex policy issues solely to the more experienced Senate for resolution
• D) abdicating responsibility for policy to the bureaucracy and letting the states take over

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