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17 Cards in this Set
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California wanted industries to cut greenhouse gas emissions by how much?
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25% by 2020.
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What was a democratic priority during the 2006 Democratic congress?
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"clean up government"
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How was congress going to clean up government?
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By tightening ethics laws that govern the relationships between lobbyists and members of Congress.
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Are the states ahead of congress when it comes to lobby disclosure laws? If so, explain.
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Yes, 47 of the 50 states had stronger laws affecting lobbyists than did the U.S. Congress.
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Why would illegal immigration by a federal policy issue?
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Because the feds. control the nation's border.
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Does the Federal government's control over the nation's border concern states? If so, explain.
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They have to cope with the immigrants on their budgets for school, hospitals, law enforcement and social services.
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In 2006 Congress debated the Federal Immigration Bill while the states did what?
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The states considered more than 570 bills related to immigration and passed 84 of them into law.
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What state has the toughest laws against immigrants? What are their laws?
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Georgia, requiring people to prove their citizenship in order to get welfare, punish employers who hire illegal immigrants, and makes police run people's ID's in order to makes sure they are a citizen or not.
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What is globalization of capitalism?
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States feel more and more the effects of rises and falls of prices, labor markets, and exchange rates thousands of miles away.
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What is a severance tax? And how is it used?
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Resources that can be taxed, an example would be that of Alaska and Wyoming where they don't have income tax but get the severance tax to make up 45% of their state tax revenue.
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What State was instrumental in getting their legislature to enact Universal health care? What did it consist of?
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Massachusetts, gave care coverage to all citizens.
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Give an example of a a small state leading in the race for change.
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Maine adopted universal health care coverage, (Dirigo).
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What is a quantitative policy indicator?
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Differences between liberal's and conservatives on different policies.
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What are some public policies examples?
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Taxation, health and welfare, education, corrections, social and economic regulation, economic development, and infrastructure.
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What are some political variable characteristics?
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political party control and interparty competition, interest group strength, gubernatorial power, professionalism of the legislature and bureaucracy, public and elite opinion, and political culture.
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What is Federalism? And how does it make ideas such as; the difference between clean-living Utah and gambling-mecca Nevada accommodating flourish?
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Federalism is a system in which the power to govern is shared between national and central (state) governments. It makes the idea flourish because the states have so much difference but one common goal under a figurehead of the higher government.
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What is one fundamental fact of a state's policy? And why?
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Population - the cost of using more policies and such is based on population. The more people the less you can charge people. The less there are of people and the larger the state, such as Alaska, then you have to charge more to less citizens.
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