What Type of Bills Are Commonly Used as a Means

question 54

Multiple Choice

What type of bills are commonly used as a means for legislators to appropriate funds to special projects within their congressional districts?

• A) health and human services bills
• B) veterans administration funding bills
• C) transportation bills
• D) communications bills
• E) energy bills

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Definitions:

Convergent Validity

A measure of the extent to which two independent measures of the same concept are correlated.

Ordinal Scale

A scale of measurement in which the measurement categories form a rank order along a continuum.

Unobtrusive Measure

Research methods that do not involve direct interaction with the participants, minimizing the influence of the measurement process on the results.

Convergent Validity

The extent to which two measurements of constructs, which are expected to have a theoretical correlation, actually do exhibit a relationship.