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ACT Reading 2.9 Natural Science Passage. Which of the following courses of action does the Committee on Investigations and Oversight seem to advocate in this report?
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Here's your Shmoop du jour, brought to you by conspiracies. At least, that's what the
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tall, thin grey creature from Area 51 told us.
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Which of the following courses of action does the Committee on Investigations and Oversight
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seem to advocate in this report?
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By this point, even those of us who've been paying more attention to the Spotify songs
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playing in the background...
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...have figured out that the Congressional committee that wrote this report was a bit
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displeased with the ATSDR's performance.
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To say the least.
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Knowing this, we can cross off (C) right from the get-go. The committee would have to be
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wearing some serious kid gloves to let the ATSDR off that easy.
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It's kind of hard to imagine them giving the ATSDR a hug and telling them they'll
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do better next time.
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Choice (A) takes it to another extreme.
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While the committee isn't going to give the ATSDR an A for effort, they also don't
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want to destroy the agency entirely.
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In our experience with tearing down and replacing government agencies...
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OK, we have no experience in that department, but we're totally sure it would be more
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effort than it's worth.
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Choice (B) seems like a reasonable solution, or at least one that would make sense to most people.
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Take the guys in charge, who perpetrated the crimes, and make them pay for what they did.
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That way future leaders of the agency would know the cost of making the same mistakes.
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Luckily for the guys who run the ATSDR, however, that's not what this report proposes.
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Hm, you sure about this one, Congress?
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It turns out that the report explicitly states that answer (D) is the way to address the agency's problems.
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The committee just really wants the ATSDR to put their backs into it and...you know...actually do their job.
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Seems like there might actually have been some kid gloves involved here...
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