In 1988 and 1990, Congress created a special commission to identify military bases that were no longer needed as the Cold War was ending. These laws created a process that allowed Congress to review the list of closed bases but made it unlikely that the proposed closures would be rejected. These laws were designed to resist which pattern of Congressional behavior?

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The distributive tendency refers to the tendency of Congress to approve projects and spending that benefit their individual districts or states, regardless of the overall cost or necessity. The laws creating the commission to identify and close military bases were designed to resist this pattern of behavior by creating a process outside of individual lawmakers' control and allowing for a more objective analysis of which bases were no longer necessary.

In 1988 and 1990, Congress Created a Special Commission to Identify