Prova Completa: Técnico Legislativo - Assistente Legislativo e Administrativo (Câm. Deputados - CESPE / CEBRASPE

When conducting a survey on the use of technology in the legislative process, one of the questions I asked was “Has the legislature, as an institution or in part, resisted technology based changes?” I asked this question based on my own experience with the Massachusetts Legislature. I spent 9 years working with legislators and senior staff, and the way they sometimes approached technology was at times comical―at times frightening. My friends and I watched on―and laughed―the first time a laptop computer or an iPhone made its way onto the floor of the Massachusetts House or Senate and the members gathered around it, acting as though they were looking at an artifact that had been dropped from Mars. I also saw an older legislative drafter become befuddled and angry when he was forced to start using the “track changes” and “comment” functions on Microsoft Word rather than marking up a bill with his beloved red pencil.

Sean J. Kealy. Technology & Legislative Drafting In The United States.

Internet:<sites.bu.edu> (adapted).

Judge the following item concerning the previous text.

In his text, the author shows his skepticism about the use of technology in the legislative process.

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4078672 Ano: 2026
Disciplina: Inglês (Língua Inglesa)
Banca: CESPE / CEBRASPE
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Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension

When conducting a survey on the use of technology in the legislative process, one of the questions I asked was “Has the legislature, as an institution or in part, resisted technology based changes?” I asked this question based on my own experience with the Massachusetts Legislature. I spent 9 years working with legislators and senior staff, and the way they sometimes approached technology was at times comical―at times frightening. My friends and I watched on―and laughed―the first time a laptop computer or an iPhone made its way onto the floor of the Massachusetts House or Senate and the members gathered around it, acting as though they were looking at an artifact that had been dropped from Mars. I also saw an older legislative drafter become befuddled and angry when he was forced to start using the “track changes” and “comment” functions on Microsoft Word rather than marking up a bill with his beloved red pencil.

Sean J. Kealy. Technology & Legislative Drafting In The United States.

Internet:<sites.bu.edu> (adapted).

Judge the following item concerning the previous text.

When conducting his survey, the author met an older drafter who did not want to change the way he worked with bills and red pencils.

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4078671 Ano: 2026
Disciplina: Inglês (Língua Inglesa)
Banca: CESPE / CEBRASPE
Orgão: Câm. Deputados

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Analista Legislativo - Processo Legislativo e Gestão
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Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension

When conducting a survey on the use of technology in the legislative process, one of the questions I asked was “Has the legislature, as an institution or in part, resisted technology based changes?” I asked this question based on my own experience with the Massachusetts Legislature. I spent 9 years working with legislators and senior staff, and the way they sometimes approached technology was at times comical―at times frightening. My friends and I watched on―and laughed―the first time a laptop computer or an iPhone made its way onto the floor of the Massachusetts House or Senate and the members gathered around it, acting as though they were looking at an artifact that had been dropped from Mars. I also saw an older legislative drafter become befuddled and angry when he was forced to start using the “track changes” and “comment” functions on Microsoft Word rather than marking up a bill with his beloved red pencil.

Sean J. Kealy. Technology & Legislative Drafting In The United States.

Internet:<sites.bu.edu> (adapted).

Judge the following item concerning the previous text.

The verb tense used in the survey question presented in the first sentence of the text indicates that there was no specific point in time respondents had to consider in their answers.

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4078670 Ano: 2026
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Banca: CESPE / CEBRASPE
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Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension

When conducting a survey on the use of technology in the legislative process, one of the questions I asked was “Has the legislature, as an institution or in part, resisted technology based changes?” I asked this question based on my own experience with the Massachusetts Legislature. I spent 9 years working with legislators and senior staff, and the way they sometimes approached technology was at times comical―at times frightening. My friends and I watched on―and laughed―the first time a laptop computer or an iPhone made its way onto the floor of the Massachusetts House or Senate and the members gathered around it, acting as though they were looking at an artifact that had been dropped from Mars. I also saw an older legislative drafter become befuddled and angry when he was forced to start using the “track changes” and “comment” functions on Microsoft Word rather than marking up a bill with his beloved red pencil.

Sean J. Kealy. Technology & Legislative Drafting In The United States.

Internet:<sites.bu.edu> (adapted).

Judge the following item concerning the previous text.

The negative way some legislators reacted to technology sometimes scared the author of the text.

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4078669 Ano: 2026
Disciplina: Inglês (Língua Inglesa)
Banca: CESPE / CEBRASPE
Orgão: Câm. Deputados

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Analista Legislativo - Processo Legislativo e Gestão
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Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension

Little attention has been devoted to legislation’s point of origin — the legislative drafting process. Such commentary as has been offered is essentially technical in nature. However, the relationship between drafter and text is the furthest thing from a technical, value-neutral enterprise.

For example: a question confronted by every drafter and one with obvious ethical and political implications is, “How much is to be left to the drafter’s discretion?” Obviously, the drafter who less frequently inquires about the client’s desires will have greater latitude to exercise discretion and accordingly can play more of an “advocacy” role in shaping the legislation, a situation which can lead to his or her sidesteping the duty of abiding by a client’s decisions concerning the objectives of representation.

But this is not to paint too malevolent a portrait of legislative drafting personnel. They are not a fifth column of subversives who pursue personal advocacy objectives in everything that they do. Indeed, many may even be unaware of their power. They are, though, continually called upon to exercise personal judgment in the performance of their duties. Such judgments are frequently policy judgments, and drafting decisions are often influenced consciously or subconsciously by the advocacy agenda of the individual drafter. The legislative drafter plays a more active role in the process than is generally accorded to the stereotypical scribe, laboring in nameless and faceless obscurity to produce a bill draft.

David Marcello. The Ethics and Politics of Legislative Drafting.

In: Tulane Law Review, vol. 70, p. 2437, 1996 (adapted).

About the preceding text, judge the following item.

It is correct to conclude from the first paragraph of the text that its author believes that not much has been explored about the true nature of legislative drafters’ work, which is not merely technical and impartial.

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4078668 Ano: 2026
Disciplina: Inglês (Língua Inglesa)
Banca: CESPE / CEBRASPE
Orgão: Câm. Deputados

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Analista Legislativo - Processo Legislativo e Gestão
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Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension

Little attention has been devoted to legislation’s point of origin — the legislative drafting process. Such commentary as has been offered is essentially technical in nature. However, the relationship between drafter and text is the furthest thing from a technical, value-neutral enterprise.

For example: a question confronted by every drafter and one with obvious ethical and political implications is, “How much is to be left to the drafter’s discretion?” Obviously, the drafter who less frequently inquires about the client’s desires will have greater latitude to exercise discretion and accordingly can play more of an “advocacy” role in shaping the legislation, a situation which can lead to his or her sidesteping the duty of abiding by a client’s decisions concerning the objectives of representation.

But this is not to paint too malevolent a portrait of legislative drafting personnel. They are not a fifth column of subversives who pursue personal advocacy objectives in everything that they do. Indeed, many may even be unaware of their power. They are, though, continually called upon to exercise personal judgment in the performance of their duties. Such judgments are frequently policy judgments, and drafting decisions are often influenced consciously or subconsciously by the advocacy agenda of the individual drafter. The legislative drafter plays a more active role in the process than is generally accorded to the stereotypical scribe, laboring in nameless and faceless obscurity to produce a bill draft.

David Marcello. The Ethics and Politics of Legislative Drafting.

In: Tulane Law Review, vol. 70, p. 2437, 1996 (adapted).

About the preceding text, judge the following item.

The main point of the text is to reveal how drafters can deliberately manipulate the drafting process according to their own interests.