U.S. Bureaucracy
Who holds federal agencies accountable?
What is both the president and Congress?
Giving citizens government jobs based on if they politically affiliate with the president, and will do what the president wants.
What is the spoils system?
How many departments are in the Presidential Cabinet?
What is 15 cabinets?
An agency that's closely modeled after cabinet departments, but tends to be much smaller and deal with more specific/niche areas of responsibility
What is an independent agency?
Any service or expenditure above what a bureaucratic task should have cost to complete.
What is government waste?
Several dozen different organizations and agencies that are in charge of running the day-to-day business of the U.S. government
What is Bureaucracy?
This replaces the spoils system, creating a selection process for government positions based on merit.
What is the Pendleton Act?
The purpose of the Presidential Cabinet is to what?
What is to provide insight to the president into specific and specialized issues?
The Environmental Protection Agency and the Federal Communications Commission
What are independent agencies?
This is a term for complex bureaucratic procedures that citizens often encounter that can make it difficult to fill out any government form correctly.
What is red tape?
This part of government has the "power of the purse" when it comes to the budgets of bureaucratic organizations.
What is Congress?
This program that included reforms and attempt at recovery to fight against the Great Depression that created millions of bureaucratic jobs for citizens in America.
What is the New Deal?
This person has the authority to reorganize, eliminate, or create any bureaucratic organization they want.
What is the president?
This independent agency handles the U.S. civil space programs, aeronautics research, and space research.
What is NASA?
Laws which force bureaucratic organizations to be transparent and make many of their documents available to the public and to Congress.
What are Sunshine Laws?
Around this million Americans work as part of the federal bureaucracy today.
What is four million Americans?
This department supplied farmers with seeds and plants, also releasing information on plants and seeds during the Civil War.
What is the Department of Agriculture?
The department created in 2002 to provide better national security measures.
What is the Department of Homeland Security?
Independent agencies are created by Congress, but whose approval is needed for an independent agency to be signed into law?
What is the president?
These place limits on when certain programs/departments are forced to end or undergo serious governmental review.
What are Sunset Provisions?
Agencies have to get permission from these people to grow or downsize.
What is both the legislative and executive branches of government?
This president died and Congress realized they needed to change the Spoils System.
Who was President James Garfield?
How many agencies were consolidated into one when the Department of Homeland Security was created?
What is 22 agencies?
One of the two independent agencies mentioned during the New Deal that helped create jobs, but have since been retired because they're no longer needed.
What were the Works Park Administration OR the Civilian Conservation Corps?
Two ways the government can help reduce problems and red tape throughout federal bureaucracy.
What is reorganization and privatizing government services/agencies?