________ percent of the foreign-born live in a U.S. central city

In the absence of the two-thirds rule in the Texas Senate,

a. the lieutenant governor would have unlimited power over legislation. b. the minority would always be at the mercy of the majority. c. most likely, only trivial legislation would ever be considered. d. special interests would exercise even greater influence than they do. e. almost all bills would "die on the calendar.".

Attempting to forestall passage of a bill by tactics such as asking a large number of trivial questions or raising many points of order about preceding bills to delay the entire legislative process is known as

a. tagging. b. discharge. c. markup. d. chubbing. e. oversight.