Changes

Each new Congress makes new committee assignments.  The most powerful committee in the House of Representatives is considered to be the "Ways and Means Committee," because it makes decisions about spending trillions of dollars.  The most powerful committee in the U.S. Senate is the Judiciary Committee, because it votes on whether to confirm judicial nominees to the federal courts (including the U.S. Supreme Court).  The entire Senate votes on the president's nominations to the federal courts, but it can only vote on those who are approved first by the Judicial Committee.  If the Judiciary Committee rejects a nomination (or delays it), then the U.S. Senate never votes.

Each new Congress makes new committee assignments.  The most powerful committee in the House of Representatives is considered to be the "Ways and Means Committee," because it makes decisions about spending trillions of dollars.  The most powerful committee in the U.S. Senate is the Judiciary Committee, because it votes on whether to confirm judicial nominees to the federal courts (including the U.S. Supreme Court).  The entire Senate votes on the president's nominations to the federal courts, but it can only vote on those who are approved first by the Judicial Committee.  If the Judiciary Committee rejects a nomination (or delays it), then the U.S. Senate never votes.

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Still, much remains unregulated in American life.  We do not have racial quotas in business, though there is affirmative action to encourage greater participation by minorities in institutions like colleges and large corporations.  We do not have comparable worth by which the government would set wages for male and female-dominated occupations.  We do not have the 14th Amendment applying to purely private activities, like the Boy Scouts.  Struggles continue on both sides of these and other controversies.  America remains by far the most free major country in the world.

Still, much remains unregulated in American life.  We do not have racial quotas in business, though there is affirmative action to encourage greater participation by minorities in institutions like colleges and large corporations.  We do not have comparable worth by which the government would set wages for male and female-dominated occupations.  We do not have the 14th Amendment applying to purely private activities, like the Boy Scouts.  Struggles continue on both sides of these and other controversies.  America remains by far the most free major country in the world.

 

== References ==

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