executive and bureaucracy checks and balances

Exec. —> Leg.

• Can veto a bill

• President can decide not to enforce a law

• Executive orders

• Executive agreements

• Bully pulpit

• Can convene congress

Exec —> Judicial

• Can appoint federal judges

• Can choose not to enforce a court’s decision

• Pardon power

Exec —> Bureaucracy

• appoint and remove agency heads

• Reorganize the bureaucracy (with congress approval)

• Change agency budget

• Adjust policies that would alter bureaucracy’s activity

• Issue executive orders

Bureaucratic Discretion

• power given to agencies by congress to implement laws using their expert judgment

Bureaucratic Rulemaking

• A process by which agencies create the regulations necessary to carry out the laws that congress makes. These regulations have to same effect as laws.