The house ways and means committee and the senate finance committee are two of the most important committees in congress because a. the members determine which representatives are assigned to which committees within the house. b. they have the final vote on all foreign policy legislation moving through the house. c. they have jurisdiction over taxes, trade, and entitlement programs such as social security and medicare. d. they are placed in charge of voting on impeachment charges. e. the members decide the order in which specific bills come up for a vote on the house floor and the specific rules that govern the length of debate.

According to the belmont report, the moral requirement that there be fair outcomes in the selection of research subjects, expresses the principle of: a. beneficence.b. respect for persons.c. justice.

Voters commonly condemn politicians for being insincere, but politicians often must disguise their true feelings when they make public statements. if they expressed their honest views—about, say, their party's policies—then achieving politically necessary compromises would be much more difficult. clearly, the very insincerity that people decry shows that our government is functioning well. which of the following, if true, most seriously undermines this reasoning? (a) achieving political compromises is not all that is necessary for the proper functioning of a government. (b) some political compromises are not in the best long-term interest of the government. (c) voters often judge politicians by criteria other than the sincerity with which they express their views. (d) a political party's policies could turn out to be detrimental to the functioning of a government. (e) some of the public statements made by politicians about their party's policies could in fact be sincere.

What are two concepts in the mayflower compact that influenced the founding fathers