Which of the following is NOT a duty or responsibility of the Speaker of the House?
a. appointing members to serve on special committees
b. acting as arbiter and interpreter of House rules
c. recognizing members who speak in the House
d. assigning bills to committees for consideration
e. censuring House members for disciplinary reasons
ANS: E
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Self-determination is an ambiguous principle on which to decide a peoples’ right to their own political fate, largely because __________
a. the United Nations’ charter defines it in too nuanced and complex a manner b. it is unclear as to whether it encourages groups thinking of themselves as nations to form stable states, or seek to start civil wars instead c. fewer than 10 percent of the world’s states have homogenous populations, with all residents thinking of themselves as a part of one people or nation d. it can encourage violent minorities to run moderate forces out and leave countries to their criminal elements