Bureaucracy
The department heads all sit on this important presidential advisory council
What is the Cabinet?
The original three executive departments
What are the Departments of Treasury, State, and War (Defense)?
These foreign policy arrangements do not need Senate approval, but they only last for the length of that president’s term.
What are executive agreements?
The body that must approve high-level presidential appointments, such as Supreme Court Justices
What is the Senate?
This law states citizens have the right to all government records except those containing military, intelligence, or trade secrets.
What is the Freedom of Information Act?
Regarding the policy-making process, this step is largely in the hands of the bureaucracy
What is policy implementation?
The president has this many days to sign or veto a bill. If not, it will automatically become law.
What is 10?
We have established a lengthy process to fire bureaucrats, because we do not want workers to lose their jobs over this issue
What are partisan politics?
If no candidate receives 270 electoral votes, this body is given the power to choose the next president
What is the House of Representatives?
According to this law, civil servants are prohibited from taking part in most partisan activities
What is the Hatch Act?
The mutually supportive relationship of the AARP, the Social Security Administration, and the subcommittee on Social Security is an example of one of these
What are iron triangles?
The three constitutional requirements to run for President
What is 35, 14 years of residency, natural born citizen?
Our government is currently experiencing this due to the ineffectiveness caused by strong partisanship
What is gridlock?
This regulatory commission oversees our monetary policy and has become quite controversial in recent years
What is the Federal Reserve?
This law limits the amount of time the president may send troops overseas without a declaration of war
What is the War Powers Act/Resolution?
These are the two primary responsibilities of all Cabinet secretaries
What is run their department and advise the president?
Since the president cannot technically introduce legislation, he relies on this informal power to push his agenda.
What is the bully pulpit?
If the president wants to pass a domestic policy, but doesn’t want to wait for Congress, they may declare this instead
What is an executive order?
These are two examples of formal presidential powers
What are the powers to veto, form treaties, pardon, give State of the Union, Commander-in-Chief, etc.?
This act established a merit based civil service commission, as opposed to one based on the spoils system.
What is the Pendleton Act?
These are the two primary responsibilities of all Cabinet secretaries
What is run their department and advise the president?
According to this amendment, a president may only run for two terms (not to exceed 10 years)
What is the 22nd?
This is one aspect that defines a merit-based system
What is hiring based on testing/qualifications
These are two methods of checking the bureaucracy’s power
What are appointing bureaucratic officials, fixing agency/dept budgets, passing legislation to define their roles, disbanding agencies, judicial review, etc.?
This act was passed in response to the President’s refusal to spend appropriated funds
What is the Budget and Impoundment Control Act?