Approximately how large is California's total annual budget when federal funds, bond funds, and special funds are combined with the general fund?

The need for states to work together to counter the increasingly internationalized networks of terrorist operations and organizations speaks to the significance of ______.

A. interactions B. information and communications technology C. global markets D. global governance

Why did Texas Supreme Court Chief Justice Tom Phillips say that Texas has "the most expensive judicial races in the world and the most politicized judicial races in the world"?

A. His intent was to explain why so few people wanted to run for judicial office in Texas. B. His intent was to explain why, when mixing money and politics, judges must dodge accusations that a decision was improperly influenced by a donor rather than by the law or facts of a certain case. C. He wanted to support the idea that the system ensures that qualified judges get elected. D. He wanted to show that the system provides equal opportunity to minority groups and whites because all one needs is to raise enough money and be a member of the right political party.