Boring! Rules, Rules, Rules
The type of committee exist permanently in the house and Senate. Examples are the Ways and Means in the House, and the Judiciary in the Senate.
What is a standing committee?
When Presidents pronounce their feelings on a Bill, and layout how they might enfore the law.
What is a signing statement?
Supreme Court rulings can be overturned by Congress and the States by passing these.
What are constitutional amendments?
According to Federalist 70, this was the most important characteristic an executive had to have.
What is energy?
What is partisan?
In the Senate, when you really want someone to sit down and just stop talking, you need 60 of your friends to have this type of vote.
What is a vote of cloture?
When Presidents want to skip over Congress they create these that carry the weight of a law but can be overturned when the next President comes in.
What is an executive order?
What is the Courts Jursdiction?
This judicial philosophy is associated with judicial restraint, as it looks to the minds of the founders to make their decisions.
What is originalism?
People often times dengrade these employees, without realizing how much they actually contribute to society.
It's one of the most powerful committees in the House, but it does not exist in the Senate; it creates the guidelines for debate and timing of passing Bills.
What is the rules committee?
After a President nominates a Supreme Court Justice, they need to go through this process before they are put on the bench.
This regulatory commission has the power to regulate the rules of the stock market.
What is the Securities and Exhange Commisson (SEC)
This court case established the principle of judicial review that Hamilton laid out in Federalist 78.
It's the three-way relationship between members of Congress, bureaucrats, and interest groups. Mr. Bernstein has never taught it, but it always shows up on study guides.
What is the Iron Triangle?
Its like an expiration date, but it only exists in two of the three branches of government.
What are term limits?
This law tried to rein in the power the President has in deploying US troops to engage in foreign conflict.
What is the War Powers Resolution?
This executive department oversees the United States Nuclear Program.
What is the Energy Department?
The implied powers in the Constitution come from this clause, which allows branches to have other powers that enable them to fulfill their enumerated powers.
What is the necessary and proper clause?
If members of Congress were serious about cutting the deficit, they would stop arguing so much about discretionary funding and work to revamp this type of spending that accounts for a much higher proportion of the budget.
What is mandatory spending?
In the Senate its like taking the carpool lane to skip all the traffic, but instead of traffic your skipping all the time where Bills get marked up in committee.
What is Unanimous Consent?
Hamilton described the Supreme Court as the weakest branch of government because it lacked this power. Which is best shown by this Andrew Johnson quote "The Supreme Court has made its decision, now let them enforce it".
What is the power of the sword?
This government corporation helps people get from place to place.
What is Amtrak?
Federal judges hold office during this term, designed to protect judicial independence.
What is good behavior?
It was one of the most important court cases of all time, because the court heard a case that had political implications for the first time.