AP GOV BUREAUCRACY

RTHS

Foreign Policy

A government’s strategy in dealing with other nations.

Ambassadors

Official envoy of a state that is present in a foreign nation.

The Joint Chiefs

devise military operations and execute orders. 

POTUS

The president is the leader of the entire executive bureaucracy.

White House Staff

The president has a senior staff to help run the White House

Independent Regulatory Agencies

make and enforce rules and standards for various industries that carry the force of law.

Independent Executive Agencies

Broad, independent, agencies that deal with specific aspects of the government, not a part of a Cabinet department, and report directly to the president

Government Corporations

Organizations that function like private businesses, but are owned and operated by the federal government.

The Cabinet

Heads of the various executive departments.  Their duty is to advise the president and execute their policy.

Source of Power for the Bureaucracy

The bureaucracy’s main power comes from Congress delegating authority to them.
Congress gives agencies the power to write rules, enforce them, and interpret them — because Congress cannot do everything itself.

Congressional Oversight

• Holding hearings

• Ordering investigations

• Reviewing and approving agency budgets

• Rewriting laws to limit or expand an agency’s power

Iron Triangles

• A bureaucratic agency

• A congressional committee

• An interest group

What Constitutional Concept Independent Agencies Risk Violating

• Write rules (quasi-legislative)

• Enforce rules (executive)

• Judge disputes (quasi-judicial)