How do the guarantees of Social Security and Medicare create a policy challenge?
a. Decision makers have to keep programs solvent as well as dealing with political barriers to making any cuts that would maintain their solvency.
b. Decision makers have to figure out to balance the requirements of funding these programs in the context of spending on other national needs.
c. Decision makers must determine how to adjust the benefits and the taxes that fund these programs to more effectively redistribute income.
d. Shifting control of these programs to independent agencies makes oversight a very challenging task.
a. Decision makers have to keep programs solvent as well as dealing with political barriers to making any cuts that would maintain their solvency.
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a. can buy more foreign goods b. can buy fewer foreign goods and more domestic goods c. can buy more foreign and domestic goods d. will have an increased chance of employment because more companies will stay in the United States e. will have to pay a larger amount when repaying loans
In the context of federal court nominations for judicial positions, the _____ holds hearings and makes its recommendation to the Senate, where it takes a majority vote to confirm the presidential nomination.
A. Senate Judiciary Committee B. House Judiciary Committee C. Senate Appropriations Committee D. House Ways and Means Committee E. Joint Congressional Committee