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This type of committee, such as the House Rules Committee, is permanent and specializes in a specific area of policy.
What is a standing committee?
The president’s power to reject a bill passed by Congress is known as this.
What is a veto?
The number of justices who currently serve on the U.S. Supreme Court.
What is nine?
These are TWO "powers" given to agencies, allowing them to create regulations and enforce them as if they were law.
What are rule-making authority and (delegated) discretionary authority?
Congress can check the president by doing this to override a veto.
What is a two-thirds vote in both houses?
This is the process of redistributing House seats among the states every ten years after the census.
What is reapportionment?
This Amendment explains the process by which the vice president and a majority of the Cabinet can declare the president unable to perform duties.
What is the 25th Amendment?
This landmark case established the power of judicial review.
What is Marbury v. Madison (1803)?
This Department in bureaucracy helps form national transportation policy and oversee safety of air and rail travel, as well as assist states in building new highway systems and develop programs for improvement of public transportation systems.
What is the Department of Transportation?
This is the part of the government that can accuse the president of wrongdoing, potentially leading to removal through impeachment.
What is the House of Representatives?
$400: When members of Congress trade votes to secure the passage of legislation, it is known as this practice.
What is logrolling?
This office, within the Executive Office of the President, helps prepare the president’s annual budget proposal.
What is the Office of Management and Budget (OMB)?
The principle that courts should follow precedent when making decisions.
What is stare decisis?
The term for when bureaucratic agencies, interest groups, and congressional committees form close policy-making relationships.
What is an iron triangle?
This power allows Congress to oversee the executive branch and its agencies and Departments by conducting investigations and hearings.
What is congressional oversight?
This Supreme Court case ruled that racial gerrymandering is unconstitutional under the Equal Protection Clause.
What is Shaw v. Reno (1993)?
This type of agreement between the president and a foreign leader does not require Senate approval, unlike a treaty.
What is an executive agreement?
This type of court has original jurisdiction, meaning it is the first to hear a case.
What is a district court?
The term for when government agencies, congressional committees, and interest groups collaborate on policy-making.
What is an issue network?
The Senate confirms these TWO types of presidential appointments with a majority vote.
What are federal judges/Supreme Court justices and heads of Cabinet/Department/Agency?
These are the two names for this clause in Article I, Section 8, allows Congress to pass laws that are “necessary and proper” to carry out its enumerated powers.
What is the Necessary and Proper Clause (Elastic Clause)?
This Supreme Court case limited the president’s use of executive privilege during the Watergate scandal.
What is United States v. Nixon (1974)?
The judicial philosophy that believes courts should defer to elected branches and only strike down laws when they clearly violate the Constitution.
What is judicial restraint?
This act established the merit system, a system of hiring government employees based on merit rather than political connections.
What is the Pendleton Act (1883)?
Congress can check the judiciary by altering the number of these, which determine how many courts exist below the Supreme Court.
What are lower federal courts?