Powers of the President
What is a signing statement?
This group of heads of the 15 executive departments is called
What is the Cabinet?
Congress can override a veto with what proportion of votes
What is a 2/3 vote in both houses/chambers?
In this role, the president meets directly with foreign leaders and negotiates treaties.
What is Chief Diplomat?
The minimum age for a person to serve as president
35 years old?
This Article of the constitution describes the powers of the President
What is Article II?
Amtrak is an example of this type of agency of the federal bureaucracy
Government Corporation?
Congress' check on the President can be accused of wrongdoing, tried, and removed form office.
What is Impeachment?
What role does the President exercise as head of armed forces?
Commander-in-Chief?
The name of the speech the President now delivers once a year to give the country updates and push for certain policies?
State of the Union Address?
These powers are directly stated powers that given to the President in the
What are formal or "Expressed" powers?
The CIA, due to its unique job function exists outside of a cabinet department and is described as an _______ agency
What is independent?
The power of the Supreme Court to check the President is called
What is Judicial Review?
When representing the entire nation on ceremonial occasions the President is fulfilling this role
What is Head of State?
The President who issued the most executive orders
Who is franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR)?
Presidential actions which have the force of law despite not being passed by Congress are known as
What are executive orders?
Most employees of the federal bureaucracy are nonpartisan civil servants. Year ago, however, that wasn't the case. Bureaucrats got their jobs through
What is patronage or the spoils system?
The % of the Senate required to approve a presidential appointment
Appointments: at least more than half (51%)
The president asks Congress to propose a certain bill and indicates he will sign it.
What is Chief Legislator?
This official presides over the Senate impeachment trial of a president
Who is the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court?
What is the appointments power?
What is discretionary rule-making authority?
This act limits the President's ability to send troops abroad for more than 60 days without Congressional approval
What did the War Powers Act do?
When responding to national disasters or times of national distress the president is fulfilling this informal role
Crisis Manager
The ability for a president (or any politician) to use their position to bring sustained public attention to an issue