ALL BUT WHICH of the following are contributing to the loss of biodiversity?

Interest group liberalism is associated with which of the following criticisms?

A) In an effort to please and appease every interest, agencies proliferate, conflicting regulations expand, programs multiply, and the budgets skyrocket. B) Real power is held by relatively few people, key groups, and institutions that get nearly all they want from government. C) Interest groups win some and lose some, but no group wins or loses all the time, and democratic government is well served by their competition. D) The framers of the Constitution intended that groups serve to bargain for various interests in American society, and this has proven a wise and relatively fair, open system. E) The interest group system is dominated by liberal interest groups who have been successfully pushing an agenda that has made it hard for the police to fight crime, contributed to declining moral values and bankrupted the government with giveaways to welfare freeloaders.

As governor of Texas, Rick Perry attempted to increase his power through all of the following EXCEPT ______.

a. not making new appointments while the legislature was in session and making recess appointments afterward b. issuing an executive order to require sixth-grade girls in Texas schools to get the HPV vaccine c. endorsing proposals for a new constitution d. issuing an executive order to reduce the time it takes coal-fired power plants to obtain a permit e. using his power of appointment to gain large campaign contributions from those he appointed to university regent positions