Which process has placed more power at the state level, making states a focus of special interest groups?

One effect of fiscal federalism on Sunbelt states is that most of those states:

A. send more money to the federal government in taxes than they get back in federal expenditures and grants. B. send less money to the federal government than they get back. C. send about the same amount of money to the federal government as they get back. D. have become less concerned than previously about whether they get back as much as they send.

The Environmental Protection Agency, the leading federal agency for environmental policy,

a. is an independent regulatory body created in 1970. b. is housed within the department of interior and was created in 1955. c. is a cabinet-level office created in 1955. d. has never enforced environmental regulations and is solely a symbolic agency.