Locate a current event article from the past two years. The event should be related to politics or government policy in the United States. The source must be credible. Summarize the article in your own words. Explain how the article is related to one or more of the concepts in the box below taken from the chapters.
Concepts:
Collective goods/selective benefit
Iron triangles
Inside and outside strategies of lobbyists
Redistricting
Logrolling
Pork barrel
Informal powers of president
“Bully Pulpit”
Pocket Veto
Judicial Review
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