APGOV Presidency
20th amendment
election early Nov. means victory to inauguration (March to January 20th lame duck period
What is the bully pulpit and why does POTUS use it?
(Pit Congress against the people) Office position platform used to advocate an agenda.
What was the Pendleton Act designed to address?
(Spoil system) Prevent future appointments of people in gov offices solely bc of political affiliation or personal connection.
List the minimum requirements to become president found in Article II.
35 years old or older, natural born citizen, resident of U.S. for 14 or more years.
What are some Inherent or Informal powers a POTUS has NOT expressly spelled out in the Constitution?
Agenda setting and power of persuasion signing statements
What are Impoundments?
An act by a pres. Of not spending money that has been appropriated by the Congress.
How are the heads of the Independent Regulatory Agencies and commissions chosen?
Appointed by the president and approved by congress
How are Presidential cabinet members chosen?
Appointed by the president and approved by the Senate
What is the Office of Management and Budget?
Assists the pres. In preparing the annual budget, clearing and coordinating department agency budgets, and supervising the administrations of the federal budget.
What is one trait that Regulatory Commissions can do that Congress and the Executive can also do?
Can make laws.
In reference to discretionary authority, what role does it play during the policy making process?
Can refuse to give agency money, kill agency altogether
What is the War Powers Resolution?
Check POTUS power to send troops without congressional consent right away
What is an oversight hearing and how is it used with the bureaucracy?
Check on how policies are being carried out- check on agencies and commissions
WHat presidential role includes the State of the Union address?
Chief legislator
What ROLE is POTUS fulfilling when giving the State of the Union address in Congress.
Chief legislator
What are some Formal checks on the power of the bureaucracy?
Congressional review, monitoring, congressional override regulation
Via oversight what are some steps Congress could do to limit the power of a bureaucratic agency?
Deregulation, funding limitations, oversight of how policies are carried out, override regulations.
What are some difficulties a POTUS Faces in the policy implementation process?
Divided gov, checks and balances
What are Executive Agreements and what are Treaties? What is the difference?
Executive agreements; an international agreement made by the president without senatorial ratification with the head of a foreign state. Treates; a formally conducted ratified agreement between countries. Executive is informal and treaties are formal.
What is discretionary authority.
Extent to which appointed bureaucrats can choose a course of action and make a policy not stated specifically in advance by laws.
What was Alexander Hamilton addressing in his FEDERALIST PAPER NO. 68?
FIlter to elect elective. Not decided based on the people.
Please list some Independent Regulatory Commissions and Independent Executive Agencies.
Fed trade commission, nuclear regulatory commision. EPA, CIA, FEC
What is the common goal of the Pendleton act and Hatch act?
Get rid of Spoils system.
What was Alexander Hamilton addressing in his FEDERALIST PAPER NO. 70?
In favor of one executive from the Virginia plan.
WHere in the Bureaucracy would you categorize NASA and the EPA?
Independent executive agencies.
What are the three components that make up an Iron triangle?
Legislators, bureaucrats, interest groups
What is the Pendleton Act (1883)?
Mandated that positions within fed gov should be awarded based on merit instead of political affiliation.
What powers do Congress and the President share over agencies and departments in the federal bureaucracy?
Oversight, funding, management
What is meant by the statement a "President's win rate" with Congress.
POTUS approval rate, decreases as term goes on.
What are the basic steps for the entire impeachment process?
POTUS gets charged, evidence is reviewed, draft the articles of impeachment, debate and vote by House.
What basic principle would explain why a POTUS would try to gain support for an initiative instead of simply enacting their policy priorities outright?
POTUS uses an initiative (to the people) to bypass Congress
Who is the national security adviser and what is his/her role in advising the POTUS?
Person who oversees the joint chiefs of staff.
What are some Formal powers the POTUS has?
Pocket veto, signs bills into laws, State of the Union Address, 9 special sessions of Congress
How may a POTUS limit the power of Congress?
Pres. veto and by nominating federal offices
How and why are the VPs chosen and by whom?
President chooses their VP to have slightly different opinions from the opposite parts of the country.
What did the War Powers Resolution address?
President sent troops without Congressional approval.
What are the main differences between an IRON TRIANGLE and an ISSUE NETWORK?
Relationship b/w bureau, Congress, and lobbyist that result in mutual benefits. Free forming groups of people in public who form a coalition.
When a President appoints Supreme Court justices, what political party do most appointees come from?
The same political party as the pres
Why was the Civil Service System originally established?
To get rid of the spoils system
WHat is the VP's only constitutionally defined job?
To preside over the Senate
Why would a POTUS use a Signing Statement instead of a veto?
To state the certain parts the POTUS seems unconstitutional.
What is the largest Government Corporation? (# of employees)
U.S. postal system (500,000 people)
What was significant about Andrew Jackson's use of the veto power?
Used it extensively, used a delaying tactic
What caused its proposal (War Powers Resolution)?
Vietnam war
What institutional resource is closest and most loyal to the POTUS?
White House staff
What is a Signing Statements and how is it used by POTUS?
Written declaration that a pres may make when signing a bill into a law. POTUS points out sections of law they deem unconstitutional.
22nd amendment
imposed term limits
What independent regulatory agencies makes rules, enforce those rules, and adjudicate disputes arising under those rules, they risk violating the constitutional concept of
separation of powers
12th amendment
specifies the separate elections of the president by the electoral college
25th amendment
succession/ disability
