"Borking" Occurs When

question 64

Multiple Choice

"Borking" occurs when

• A)Senators filibuster a nominee to the Supreme Court.
• B)Senators draw extensively on excerpts from a judicial nominee's speeches and writings in order to paint the nominee as an extremist who is unqualified to serve in the federal judiciary.
• C)a president chooses to rescind an existing nomination for the Supreme Court and nominates a new candidate.
• D)the Senate ends a filibuster of a federal court nominee through a cloture vote.

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Definitions:

Diseconomies of Scale

The condition in which a firm’s costs per unit of output increase as the firm increases in size or scale of operation.

Economies of Scale

Cost advantages that enterprises obtain due to their scale of operation, typically characterized by a reduction in average cost per unit when production is increased.

Externalities

Costs or benefits that result from an economic activity and affect third parties who did not choose to incur that cost or benefit.