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a method of using debate to end a bill in the Senate
What is a filibuster?
100
The person who carries out the bulk of the work of the Cabinet departments
Who are the bureaucrats?
100
The tradition of awarding jobs to supporters.
What is the "spoils system"?
100
an attempt to create unusually shaped districts for political purposes.
What is gerrymandering?
100
A committee in either chamber that specializes in certain policy areas and exists from one Congressional session to the next.
What is a standing committee?
200
bills
What are quietly killed in the early processes of committee action
200
A necessity to impeach the president.
What is a majority vote in the House?
200
Gives the regulatory agencies the power to create the necessary rules and procedures.
What is regulatory legislation?
200
The clause that allows laws to be made to enforce the Constitution even when the power is not expressly written.
What is the necessary and proper clause?
200
The fourth branch of government.
What is the bureaucracy?
300
Senate and the House of Representatives
What are the houses of Congress?
300
The press secretary, the chief of staff and the White House chef.
What are the White House Staff members?
300
He laid out principles that included hierarchy, specialized tasks, division of labor, standard operating procedures, and recordkeeping.
Who is Max Weber?
300
All government agency meetings must be opened to the public unless issues such as military information or trade secrets are being discussed.
What is the open meeting law?
300
A body of 538 popularly elected representatives who formally select the President and Vice-President.
What is the Electoral College?
400
A system that has two chambers and that has checks on policy decisions.
What is a bicameral system?
400
Office of Management and Budget
Who prepares the president's budget?
400
A publication issued by Congress that included possible Presidential appointments
What is the Plum Book?
400
They were against civil service reform and formed their own party in the 1880s.
What is stalwarts?
500
Census
What is the amount of time the House is reapportioned.
500
Receiving ambassadors from foreign governments, Heading a political party, and executing the laws of the nations.
What are the President's enumerated duties?
500
Interest groups, congressional committees, and agencies that work together.
What is the Iron Triangle?
500
an act that limits the political activities of federal employees.
What is the Hatch Act?