All federal judicial nominations are first referred to which of the following for a hearing?

It has been increasingly difficult for the parties to work together in Congress in recent years because of ______.

a. the decreasing willingness of members to follow their party leaders b. an increasing number of members who refuse to identify with either party c. increasing hostility toward presidential leadership d. the public’s decreasing attention to the actions of Congress e. increasing party polarization and hyperpartisanship

Whether a state is capable of governing is an example of ______.

A. state ability B. state capacity C. state monopoly D. state control