A job filled by a person whom an agency has already identified.
What is a name-request job?
100
This newest department contains agencies such as Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), and the Secret Service.
What is Homeland Security (DHS)?
100
A large, complex organization composed of appointed officials.
What is bureaucracy?
200
Washington pays state and local governments and private groups to staff and administer federal programs.
What is government by proxy?
200
This department, first established in 1966, oversees the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA), Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), and the Maritime Admisitration.
What is the Department of Transportation (DoT)?
200
The government offices to which people are appointed on the basis of merit, as ascertained by a written exam or by applying certain selection criteria.
What is the competitive service?
300
A close relationship between an agency, a congressional committee, and an interest group.
What is an iron triangle?
300
This department contains the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), the Marshals Service, and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearmes (ATF).
What is the Department of Justice (DoJ)?
300
The ability of a congressional committee to to review and approve certain agency decisions in advance and without passing a law.
What is committee clearance?
400
The authority of congress to block a presidential action after it has taken place. The Supreme Court has held that Congress does not have this power.
What is a legislative veto?
400
This department contains these agencies: Federal Trade Commission (FTC), Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB).
What is no department? (They are all independent)
400
The extent to which appointed bureaucrats can choose courses of action and make policies not spelled out in advance by laws.
What is discretionary authority?
500
Funds for government programs collected and spent outside the regular government budget.
What are trust funds?
500
This department administers the Census Bureau, Patent and Trademark Office (PTO), and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
What is the Department of Commerce?
500
A network of people in Washington D.C.-based interest groups, on congressional staffs, in universities and think tanks, and in the mass media, who regularly discuss and advocate public policies.