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Red Tape
This refers to the extra hassle and paperwork that is required to get things done, which happens mostly in a bureaucracy.
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The Veto
The Executive Branch checks the Legislative Branch through this method which kills laws but can be overridden.
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The Environmental Protection Agency
This agency is charged with protecting the environment.
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The Cabinet
The President can appoint these officials. They are the heads of the fifteen Executive Departments and act as advisors to the President.
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The Department of State
This executive department is responsible for U.S. foreign policy and international relations.
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Iron Triangle
This comprises the relationship, specifically policy-making, among congressional committees, bureaucracy, and interest groups.
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Appointing Justices
The Executive Branch checks the Judicial Branch by doing this.
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Government Corporations
This type of government agency is operated and run like a business. Includes groups such as the Postal Service and Amtrak.
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Pardon
The President has the judicial power to forgive someone for their crime, otherwise called this.
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The Department of the Interior
This executive department is tasked with protecting U.S. natural resources, history, heritage, and culture.
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Spoils System
This system gives government positions as political rewards.
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Money
The House checks the Executive Branch by appropriating this.
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NASA
This agency is tasked with developing and administering the nation's space program.
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Commander of all armed forces
The President is often called the Commander in Chief, which means this.
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The Department of Education
This department establishes policies and gives out federal assistance to education, such as public schools.
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3 million people
The federal bureaucracy employs roughly this many people.
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Impeachment
Congress can remove a president from office by doing this.
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Social Security
This agency oversees the money that is given to the elderly and disabled people.
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Head of State
The President is the ceremonial head of the United States government, or otherwise known as this.
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The Department of Defense
This department is the largest executive department and is tasked with all agencies dealing with national security and the U.S. Armed Forces.
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The Pendelton Act
This Act, passed in 1883, attempted to end the Spoils System.
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Unconstitutional.
The Supreme Court can rule Executive actions this.
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Central Intelligence Agency
This agency is tasked with collecting and analyzing information about foreign countries.
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The State of the Union Address
The President gives this speech which is about important issues that face the U.S.
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The Departments of Defense, Treasury, and State.
These departments were the first executive departments created.
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