Members of Congress enjoy all of the following advantages of incumbency except.
A. the ability to direct federal spending to their districts or states.
B. the ability to communicate regularly with constituents at taxpayer
expense.
C. the ability to draw congressional district boundaries to maximize
their electoral chances.
D. the ability to raise large sums of campaign contributions.
E. the ability to perform constituent service.

explanation: we can only guess at how our actions may be perceived in the future. doing something really big like killing lots of people, saving lots of people, affecting the lives of lots of people is a sure fire way of being remembered in historical records. we can also make a difference in the history records by being a small influence on something bigger, whether that is as a civil servant, scientist or artist.

of course you could argue that we all affect history just as tiny cogs in a   bigger machine.

if you mean how do people influence our opinions of things which have already happened, then simply by writing a book which looks at things form a different perspective and trying to convince people that this perspective is more accurate or truthful. people do it all the time i.e. richard the third was a terrible or was he? plenty would disagree, it's just that their views aren't the most widely known.n:

i thinl it is the 1st answer

4 copper and gold, the california gold rush is why im pretty sure.