The Presidency
This is the minimum age required to be President of the United States.
What is 35?
This term refers to the large, complex organization of government agencies and employees.
What is the federal bureaucracy?
This is the title given to the head of most executive departments.
What is Secretary?
This space agency is an example of an independent executive agency.
What is NASA?
The federal government gets most of its revenue from this kind of tax.
What is income tax?
This phrase refers to the President's constitutional role as the top military leader.
What is Commander in Chief?
These employees are hired based on merit, not political loyalty.
What are civil servants?
This department is responsible for foreign affairs and diplomacy.
What is the Department of State?
This type of agency has the power to make and enforce rules for specific industries.
What is a regulatory commission?
This agency is responsible for collecting federal taxes.
What is the Internal Revenue Service or IRS?
This is the number of years in one presidential term.
What is four?
The bureaucracy falls under this branch of government.
What is the executive branch?
This department manages the nation’s military.
What is the Department of Defense?
This independent agency regulates television, radio, and internet communications.
What is the FCC?
This term refers to government spending that is not required by law and must be approved each year.
What is discretionary spending?
This clause gives the President the power to refuse to sign a bill into law.
What is the veto power?
This term refers to the idea that agencies implement laws passed by Congress.
What is administrative discretion or rulemaking?
This department was created in response to the attacks on September 11, 2001.
What is the Department of Homeland Security?
This agency investigates and enforces federal labor laws.
What is the National Labor Relations Board or NLRB?
This kind of spending includes programs like Social Security and Medicare.
What is mandatory spending?
This is the process by which a president can be removed from office for "high crimes and misdemeanors."
What is impeachment?
This federal act reformed the spoils system and created the modern civil service system.
What is the Pendleton Act?
This is the term for the group of the President’s top advisors, made up mostly of department heads.
What is the Cabinet?
Unlike Cabinet departments, these agencies are not part of a specific executive department and often report directly to the President.
What are independent agencies?
When the government spends more than it collects in a year, it creates this.
What is a budget deficit?