POTUS
Alphabet Agencies
Death & Taxes
That's Above my Pay Grade
Miscellaeny
100
22nd amendment
What is the amendment that limits the President to two 4 year terms
100
CEA
What is the Council of Economic Advisors
100
16th amendment
What is the amendment that permits the Congress to tax income
100
Implementing laws and policies
What is the purpose of the bureaucracy
100
Contracts with other countries that do not have to be approved by the Senate
What are executive agreements
200
Clinton and Johnson
What are the 2 presidents who were charged with impeachment by the House
200
This office oversees the formation of the President's budget
What is the Office of Management and Budget
200
Social Security and Medicare are examples
What are "entitlements"
200
When Congress oversees the work of an executive agency
What is legislative oversight
200
The legislation that replaced the patronage system with the merit system as the basis for hiring and promotion in the bureaucracy
What is The Pendleton Act (or Civil Service Act of 1883)
300
Appoint ambassadors, negotiate treaties, give the State of the Union address
What are formal powers of the Presidency
300
These three agencies make up the President's executive office
What is the CEA, the NSA and the OMB
300
The primary reason we cannot balance our budget
What are "uncontrollable expenditures."
300
The three characteristics of the bureaucracy
What is hierarchical structure, specialization (or formal rules), and expertise (or merit principle)
300
The Hatch Act
What is the law that prohibits government employees from engaging in political activities while on duty
400
The power the President gets from public support
What is informal power
400
The last cabinet department created
What is the Department of Homeland Security
400
This permits agencies to spend at the level of the previous year when Congress cannot agree on a budget
What is a continuing resolution
400
Amtrak and the Postal Service
What are government corporations
400
Twenty Fifth Amendment
What is the amendment that sets forth succession in the event of death or disability of the president or vice-president
500
An action by the President that has the force of law but is not a law passed by Congress
What is an executive order
500
A government agency responsible for some sector of the economy
What is an independent regulatory agency
500
These 2 committees write the tax code
What is the Senate Finance and the House Ways & Means committee
500
The three components of an iron triange
What is a congressional committee, an executive agency and an interest group
500
individuals in Washington who regularly discuss and advocate public policies
What are issues networks
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