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Yi-Chen

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What does Congress use when the body lacks the scientific and technological expertise needed to enact a law and instead passes the buck to a bureaucratic agency?
 
  a. congressional oversight
  b. cloture
  c. legislative authority
  d. congressional review
  e. hearings

Question 2

The president may refuse to act upon or sign a bill with which he/she is opposed. If Congress passes a bill and sends it to the president within ten days of the end of a congressional session and the president does not act on the bill, then the bill does not become law. This procedure is known as
 
  a. the pocket veto.
  b. a presidential override.
  c. a filibuster.
  d. cloture.
  e. presidential oversight.



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Answer to Question 1

ANS: A

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ANS: A





 

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