Why Did Congress Go Overboard Creating Such a Large Agency

question 24

Multiple Choice

Why did Congress go overboard creating such a large agency as the DHS?

• A) The DHS has grown to spend over a half a trillion dollars annually.
• B) The DHS, as per the PATRIOT Act, has been spying on Americans through a program called prism.
• C) The DHS is responsible for running the intelligence community.
• D) The DHS does many things that have little relationship to Homeland Security.

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Definitions:

Ribosomes

Cellular structures responsible for protein synthesis.

microRNAs

Small non-coding RNA molecules that play a key role in regulating gene expression by binding to and inhibiting specific mRNA molecules.

mRNA

Messenger RNA, a type of RNA that conveys genetic information from DNA to the ribosome, where it specifies the amino acid sequence of the protein products of gene expression.

RNA Polymerase

An enzyme that synthesizes RNA from a DNA template during the process of transcription.