Assignment task:
Members of Congress are more religious than the general public. 50. Incumbents are prohibited from pursuing casework because it is seen as an unfair electoral advantage. 51. A bill goes through markup in a full committee after a subcommittee votes in favor of it. 52. Studies show that members of Congress vote in conformity with the prevailing opinion of their constituents a majority of the time. 53. The House currently has 435 members, but this number increases automatically every ten years after the census is conducted. 54. The Congressional Budget Office evaluates the economic effects of different spending programs and provides information to Congress on the anticipated cost of proposed policies. 55. Congress has ceded to the president a major role in the legislative process. 56. Logrolling was deemed unconstitutional by the Supreme Court following the Civil Rights Act of 1964. 57. A conference committee is composed of members from the House and Senate committees that originally considered the bill.