"what happens if the senate and house of representatives pass two different bills on the same topic?
a. congress will meet with the president to agree on one or the other bill.
b. the conference committee will meet and resolve the bills' differences.
c. the senate version of the bill will take precedence and go to the president.
d. advisors to the president will meet with the sponsors of the proposed bills.

B is the correct answer.

Conference committees work to resolve differences between bills on the same matter.

the triple alliance. germany and austria-hungary were already allies by 1879 when, worried about a threat from russia, they formed the dual alliance. italy joined the group in 1882. there was a concern about a possible attack from france and the alliance needed powerful friends to defend it.

the correct answer is: (1) affected by gerrymandering; (2) not affected by gerrymandering.

gerrymandering is known as a practice that intends to establish a some kind of political advantage for a particular party or group. to do this district boundaries are manipulated. the new resulting district is named a gerrymandering.

in other words, what gerrymandering does is to draw the boundaries of electoral districts trying to benefit the party who is doing it. sometimes, the party controlling the legislature will redraw it so they can maximize the number of districts they are likely to control.