People already holding office and get a major advantage in reelections
What is Incumbents
100
There are 535 members in this group and are divided by 100 and 535 members.
What is Congress?
100
Mike Pence
Who is the current vice president?
100
a hierarchical authority structure that uses task specialization, operates on the merit principle, and behaves with impersonality.
What is bureaucracy
100
The number of Cabinet Departments and the title of the person who is in charge of it.
What is 15 and secretary?
200
A power dedicated just to the senate. Able to hold the ground for open debate as long as wanted
What is a filibuster
200
54th and current speaker of the House.
What is Paul Ryan
200
Vice President, Speaker of the House, President pro tempore of Senate, Speaker of the House
What is the order of presidential succession
200
The use of governmental authority to control or change some practice in the private
sector
What is regulation
200
Name the act passed originally in 1939 prohibiting civil service employees from actively participating in partisan politics while on duty
What is the Hatch Act?
300
A position chosen by the majority party in the HOR to represent the majority party
What is the Speaker of the House
300
Organizations within Congress that reviews proposed laws before it becomes official.
What is a committee?
300
ratified in 1951, limits presidents to being elected to only two terms
What is the 22nd Amendment
300
AKA “subgovernments”; mutually advantageous relationship between bureaucratic agencies, interest groups, and congressional committees.
What are iron triangles
300
An agency of federal bureaucracy that employs 28% of federal civilian workers.
What is the Postal Service?
400
Party leaders who work with the majority leader or minority leader to count votes beforehand and lean on waverers whose votes are crucial to a bill favored by the party pg
What are whips
400
It created a fixed budget calender, established a budget committee in each house, and created a congressional budget office (CBO).
What is the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974?
400
originated as the Bureau of the Budget, composed of a handful of political appointees and more than 600 career officials, major responsibility is to prepare the president’s budget
What is the Office of Management and Budget
400
A system of hiring and promotion based on the merit principle and the desire to create a nonpartisan government service
What is civil service
400
Two ways the president can influence a bureaucracy.
What is issuing executive orders, appointing heads of agencies, altering an agency's structure, and reorganizing an agency
500
A group of members of Congress sharing some interest or characteristic. Many are composed of members from both parties and from both houses.
What is a caucus
500
Audits, evaluates, and moniters what agencies are doing with their budget by reporting to Congress.
What is The Government Accountability Office (GAO)?
500
has three members, each appointed by the president, who advise the president on economic policy; prepares the annual Economic Report of the President
What is the Council of Economic Advisers
500
An elite cadre of about 9,000 federal government managers at the top of the civil service system
What is the Senior Executive Service
500
Name two of four basic types of group agencies that the federal executive branch is organized into.
What are cabinet departments, independent regulatory commissions, government corporations, and executive agencies?