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04 Proof reading and error correction One of the most important non-legislative functions of the U.S Congressis the power to investigate. This power is usually delegated to committees - eitherstanding committees, special committees set for a specific (1)____ purpose, or joint committees consisted of members of both houses. (2)____ Investigations are held to gather information on the need forfuture legislation, to test the effectiveness of laws already passed,to inquire into the qualifications and performance of members andofficials of the other branches, and in rare occasions, to lay the (3)____ groundwork for impeachment proceedings. Frequently, committeesrely outside experts to assist in conducting investigative hearings (4)____ and to make out detailed studies of issues. (5)____ There are important corollaries to the investigative power. Oneis the power to publicize investigations and its results. Most (6)____ committee hearings are open to public and are reported (7)____ widely in the mass media. Congressional investigationsnevertheless represent one important tool available to lawmakers (8)____ to inform the citizenry and to arouse public interests in national issues.(9)____ Congressional committees also have the power to compeltestimony from unwilling witnesses, and to cite for contemptof Congress witnesses who refuse to testify and for perjurythese who give false testimony. (10)____ 03 Demographic indicators show that Americans in the postwar period were more eager than over to establish families. They quickly brought down the age at marriage for both men and women and brought the birth rate to a twentieth century height after more than [JY](1)____ a hundred years of a steady decline, producing the “baby boom”. [JY](2)____ There young adults established a trend of early marriage and relatively large families that went for more than two decades a