Individual members of congress cannot become experts on each of the thousands of bills proposed each year so congress relies on which of the following

Assuming that this is referring to the same list of options that was posted before with this question, the correct response would be "subcommittees", since these are special task forces charged with gaining new information. 

citizens get the vast majority of their political and governmental information from the media, which includes television, print journalism, radio, and now the internet. the media play an important role in connecting people to government.