Bureaucracy Checks and Balances Agencies The Presidency Departments
100
Red Tape
This refers to the extra hassle and paperwork that is required to get things done, which happens mostly in a bureaucracy.
100
The Veto
The Executive Branch checks the Legislative Branch through this method which kills laws but can be overridden.
100
The Environmental Protection Agency
This agency is charged with protecting the environment.
100
The Cabinet
The President can appoint these officials. They are the heads of the fifteen Executive Departments and act as advisors to the President.
100
The Department of State
This executive department is responsible for U.S. foreign policy and international relations.
200
Iron Triangle
This comprises the relationship, specifically policy-making, among congressional committees, bureaucracy, and interest groups.
200
Appointing Justices
The Executive Branch checks the Judicial Branch by doing this.
200
Government Corporations
This type of government agency is operated and run like a business. Includes groups such as the Postal Service and Amtrak.
200
Pardon
The President has the judicial power to forgive someone for their crime, otherwise called this.
200
The Department of the Interior
This executive department is tasked with protecting U.S. natural resources, history, heritage, and culture.
300
Spoils System
This system gives government positions as political rewards.
300
Money
The House checks the Executive Branch by appropriating this.
300
NASA
This agency is tasked with developing and administering the nation's space program.
300
Commander of all armed forces
The President is often called the Commander in Chief, which means this.
300
The Department of Education
This department establishes policies and gives out federal assistance to education, such as public schools.
400
3 million people
The federal bureaucracy employs roughly this many people.
400
Impeachment
Congress can remove a president from office by doing this.
400
Social Security
This agency oversees the money that is given to the elderly and disabled people.
400
Head of State
The President is the ceremonial head of the United States government, or otherwise known as this.
400
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.
500
The Pendelton Act
This Act, passed in 1883, attempted to end the Spoils System.
500
Unconstitutional.
The Supreme Court can rule Executive actions this.
500
Central Intelligence Agency
This agency is tasked with collecting and analyzing information about foreign countries.
500
The State of the Union Address
The President gives this speech which is about important issues that face the U.S.
500
The Departments of Defense, Treasury, and State.
These departments were the first executive departments created.






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