POTUS
This inherent power of the presidency can be challenged in federal courts.
What is an Executive Order
This “traffic cop” committee dramatically reduces the number of bills the House will debate on.
What is the Rules Committee?
This leadership positions keeps a close tab on how members of Congress are leaning on a certain vote.
What is a whip?
Limit to how many terms someone can serve as president (limited to two terms).
What is the 22nd Amendment?
This document gives the executive branch a leader (president) and gives the branch more power of enforcement.
What is Federalist 70.
This refers to the term used to describe the president’s ability to harness media attention to push for his proposals.
What is the “bully pulpit” or agenda-setting?
The derogatory term for earmarks that only benefit a Congressman’s district.
What is “pork barrel”?
This type of motion can bring a filibuster to an end.
What is cloture?
When a bill from congress comes to the president's desk and is denied or rejected.
What is a veto?
This is an enumerated power for the executive.
The president has the power to make treaties/agreements, along with appoint and receive ambassadors around the world.
What is the Chief Diplomat?
Presidents will often times claim this after a decisive or landslide election.
What is a mandate?
Wall Street lobbyists and the financial sector would want to make sure they have connections to this very powerful and senior House committee.
What is House Ways and Means?
This is most important thing lobbyists provide legislators with.
What is information?
Name the requirements to be president.
Hint: there are three
Must be a natural born citizen, at least 35 years old, and a US resident for 14 years
Presidents can negotiate these with other countries without consulting Congress.
What are executive agreements?
This act of Congress trying to limit the president is largely ignored by the chief executive and Congress is too weak to enforce it.
What is the War Powers Resolution?
These informal groups of Congress people and Senators allow for cordial debate and discussion away from the spotlight of the committees.
What are caucuses?
This is the Congress’ power to monitor the activities of the numerous federal agencies and cabinet departments.
What is legislative oversight?
What article established the abilities of the president?
Article II
The president is in control of the United States military and is considered this.
What is the commander-in-chief.
Congress declares war, but if immediate threat the president can authorize war without congress.
This executive check on congress by the president can only be performed when less than 10 days are left in a congressional session.
What is pocket veto?
This person is elected from the Senate to serve as presiding officer in the absence of the Vice President.
What is the President pro tempore?
These types of committees are temporary and seek to resolve differences in bills.
What are conference committees?
What is the difference between an executive order and a law?
orders carry the same force of law as executive orders—the difference between the two is that executive orders are aimed at those inside government while proclamations are aimed at those outside government.
Orders are less permanent than laws.
This gave the president the option to cut certain parts of a bill out and is today unconstitutional.
What is a Line Item Veto or a Partial Veto.
This is unconstitutional because the president does not have the power to edit or create a bill. Thus being unconstitutional.