The authority to appropriate funds to agencies experiencing a shortfall between meetings of the legislature belongs to the INTERIM FINANCE COMMITTEE (IFC). IFC consists of Senate members of Finance and Assemble members. It functions within the Legislative Counsel Bureau. It provides funds to the for state agencies. It also reviews the requests from various agencies for grants and gifts.
Out of the following choices, the one that was not a characteristic of the emerging middle class of the 1830s was the Southwest was its center. The answer will be A.