Interest groups that are well-funded are in a position to offer ________________, such as the discounts AARP provides on a wide variety of products and services.

The passage of the USA PATRIOT Act, among other things,

a. allowed for the creation of 1,000 additional Patriot missiles by the United States. b. resulted in 5,000 Arab men, who entered the United States after January 1, 2000, being asked to "voluntarily" present themselves for questioning. c. justified the decision to invade Afghanistan following the 9/11 terrorist attacks. d. justified the decision to invade Iraq to look for weapons of mass destruction. e. justified the decision to bomb Somalia targets to root out terrorists.

Agency "capture" occurs when

A. Congress begins to assume the regulatory functions that a federal agency is supposed to handle. B. a regulating agency begins to control the actual industry or business that it regulates. C. lobbyists effectively run a federal agency, performing all regulation duties themselves. D. an industry begins to gain undue influence over the agency that regulates it. E. an iron triangle forms.