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jessicacav

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Attempting to forestall passage of a bill by tactics such as asking a large number of trivial questions or raising many points of order about preceding bills to delay the entire legislative process is known as
 
  a. tagging.
  b. discharge.
  c. markup.
  d. chubbing.
  e. oversight.

Question 2

By some estimates, roughly 30 percent of all lobbyists in the states are
 
  a. government lobbyists.
  b. voluntary lobbyists.
  c. office lobbyists.
  d. contract lobbyists.



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Answer to Question 1

D

Answer to Question 2

a



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