Duties of congress in the budget process include all of the following EXECEPT:

Who is the speaker in this excerpt from book 13 of homer’s odyssey, and what inference can you make from the tone?

The renting agent says i have to rent for at least one year. but i’m not sure how many months i’ll be in town.

Read the following: (1) liz has become more responsive to her partner's advances since a really beautiful woman moved in next door; (2) unable to accept his desire for other young men, 15-year-old juan immerses himself into his studies; (3) shauntel tells people that her coworker mary dislikes her; though if she were honest, shauntel would realize that it is actually she who dislikes mary; (4) "ben's nasty; he's disgusting," says renee; but renee secretly finds ben attractive. describe the defense mechanism he or she is using.