Crash Course 42 Interest Groups

An interest group is an organized group of individuals that make ______________ appeals to government.

• political
• monetary
• policy-related
• None of these

It’s often the size of the group’s__________ that gives it political clout.

• membership
• ownership of the party
• dragon

Which is NOT one of the three entities that make up the “iron triangle” of policy-making?.

• Congress
•  interest groups
• bureaucracy
• All are entities that make up iron triangles

Interest groups often have lawyers who propose language that can make it into bills and laws. This is most likely to happen at the 

• Federal
• State and local level
• Interest groups do not do this

Regulations are just as important as laws and for many industries, even more so. That's why you'll see a lot of interest group efforts spent lobbying  _____________as well as Congress.

• The president
• The Senate
• The Supreme Court
• bureaucratic agencies

A political party is not an interest group.

• True
• False