Checks and Separations
In order to take their positions, United States ambassadors must be approved by this.
What is the Senate?
Signing executive agreements with foreign nations is an example of this type of presidential power.
What is informal (or implied)?
In order to end a filibuster, a vote for this must occur to bring a bill to a vote.
What is cloture?
The drawing of legislative districts to favor one political party over another is known as this.
What is gerrymandering?
In Baker v Carr (1962), the holding described a "one person, one vote" doctrine based on this amendment to the Constitution.
What is the 14th? (Equal protection clause)
This proportion of the Senate is needed to appoint a Supreme Court justice.
What is a simple majority?
President's have increasingly used this informal power in order to meet their agenda without having to go through Congress.
What are executive orders?
The Constitution says that Congress has the power to declare war, which is this type of power.
What is enumerated?
This is the type of congressional committee that is created when the House and Senate pass different versions of the same bill.
What is a conference committee?
Defense spending and national park funding are examples of this type of spending items.
What are discretionary?
This type of veto occurs when the President takes no action for ten days while Congress is adjourned.
What is a pocket veto?
The president tends to have the most unchecked power in this policy arena.
What is foreign policy?
The fact that Congress must approve of the President's budget proposal is known as this power.
What is the power of the purse?
The terms and conditions of a debate when a bill goes to the floor in the House of Representatives is determined by this.
What is the House Rules Committee?
This person is the head of the Executive Office of the President.
What is Chief of Staff?
The War Powers Resolution is often seen as unconstitutional by presidents because it takes away their power to do this if Congress decides to end a conflict.
What is veto?
Over the last century, the president has increasingly used this linkage institution to influence legislation.
What is the media?
According to the Constitution, these types of bills must begin in the House of Representatives.
What are revenue (taxes and spending) bills?
Committee chairs tend to have these two qualifying characteristics.
What is seniority in the majority party?
The largest portion of "uncontrollable spending" goes toward these programs, such as Social Security and Medicare.
What are entitlement programs?
Congressional funding for local projects that are intended to benefit constituents are known as this.
What are "pork barrel"?