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Before 2014, the United States Congress’s health insurance system offered good benefits for representatives and senators.

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Answer:

The correct possessive form in this sentence is:
"Before 2014, the United States Congress's health insurance system offered good benefits for representatives and senators."

Step-by-step explanation:

The rules for forming possessives are:

- For singular nouns ending in s, add an apostrophe s ('s)

- For plural nouns ending in s, add only an apostrophe (')

- For plural nouns not ending in s, add an apostrophe s ('s)

In this case:

- "Congress" is a singular noun ending in s

- So to form the possessive, we add an apostrophe s ('s)

- Giving us "Congress's"

The other options are incorrect:

- "representatives' and senators'" - Uses apostrophe (') for plural noun "representatives" ending in s. But we need apostrophe s ('s) for the singular noun "Congress".

- "representatives’s and senators’s" - Uses apostrophe s ('s) for the plural nouns "representatives" and "senators". But only the singular noun "Congress" needs the apostrophe s for the possessive form.

So "Congress's" is the correct possessive form in this sentence. Let me know if this explanation makes sense!

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