GOPO chapter 7 reading quiz

Secretary of state, secretary of war, and treasure

First cabinet members

15 members

How many cabinet members are there?

4+ million (2.8 million are civil, rest military)

How many employees are in the bureaucracy?

3%

How many employees does the president appoint?

Department of Justice (attorney general)

Every cabinet member has secretary except

True

True or false: Can members of the bureaucracy be impeached like the president?

write/enforce regulations, issue fines, testify before Congress, form iron triangles, create issue networks

The bureaucracy can:

cabinet members

Senate approves…

reorganize

POTUS cannot take away departments and cabinet members but can…

anyone who has vested interest in something

Stakeholder

due process if an individual does not plea bargain or go through agency adjudication

Judicial review provides…

“at the pleasure of the president”

POTUS’s agency heads that are appointed by him serve…

broaden or shrink role/agency in bureaucracy

President’s ideology will…

the ability to carry out Congress’s power as they choose

Discretionary authority

ability to make rules that don’t contradict laws, as well as enforce laws and fines

Rule-making power

agency takes to court, loses due process

Agency adjudication

congressional oversight, power of the purse, impeachment, compliance monitoring

Congress’s check on the bureaucracy

fire heads/secretaries, executive orders, broaden/shrink goals(ideology), reorganize departments, compliance monitoring

POTUS check on the bureaucracy

judicial review

Courts check on the bureaucracy

ensuring agencies follow rules

Compliance monitoring

permanent

Iron triangles are

temporary

Issue networks are

An FBI director testifies before a House committee on federal arrests and prosecutions

Which of the following is the best example of two points of an iron triangle at work?

There were similar amounts of fines in the Southeastern states

What does the data in the map reveal?

The congressional committee with oversight of the EPA will be aware of or have access to these fines

Which of the following is likely to result based on the information in the map?

Congress votes to reduce a bureaucratic agency’s budget

Which of the following is an example of a constitutional check against the bureaucracy?

The FCC is fining Viacom because one of its companies violated broadcast regulations

Which of the following statements best describe the actions of the FCC?

Appeal the ruling to the appropriate Circuit Court of Appeals

If Viacom disagrees with this notice, what is the most likely step it will take?

exercise some control over executive agencies

Congressional oversight refers to the power of Congress to

Congress giving the Environmental Protection Agency the power to establish national pollution standards

Which of the following scenarios best illustrates delegated discretionary authority?

authorization of spending

One of the formal tools used by Congress for oversight of the bureaucracy is

ability to set specific guidelines after receiving a general mandate from Congress

A fundamental source of power for the federal bureaucracy lies in its

The President can dismiss cabinet officers, but not commissioners of independent regulatory agencies.

Cabinet departments differ from independent regulatory agencies in which of the following ways?

Congress: holding committee meeting

President: appointing a cabinet

Which of the following pairs accurately identifies the methods used by Congress and the president to hold the bureaucracy accountable to the other branches?

Congress can hold the bureaucracy accountable by calling on leaders from departments and agencies responsible for the improper payments to testify before committees.

Which of the following is an action that Congress would most likely take to address the issues illustrated by the data in the table?

The president is not supportive of the EPA, but members of Congress have checked the president's power by not approving a cut in funding for the agency.

Which of the following is a correct interpretation of the data in the bar chart?

Holding hearings for review of an executive agency’s activities

Which of the following is an example of congressional oversight?

To show how interest groups, Congress, and the bureaucracy interact in a public policy area

Which of the following best explains the concept of the iron triangle, as illustrated in the diagram?

increase the budget and authority of the bureaucracy to regulate industry

One key interaction that Congress has with the bureaucracy as part of the iron triangle is to

separation of powers

When independent regulatory agencies make rules, enforce those rules, and adjudicate disputes arising under those rules, they risk violating the constitutional concept of

Holding hearings for review of an executive agency’s activities

Which of the following is an example of congressional oversight?

regulating certain industries to protect the public interest

In general, independent regulatory commissions are created primarily for the purpose of

Delegated discretionary authority

The mission of the Department of Transportation is to ensure the safety and efficiency of the transportation system. The Department of Transportation has accepted public comments regarding the safety of automated vehicles in the United States in order to establish standards and guidelines for this new technology. Which of the following concepts is most related to the scenario?

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) writing a regulation to support a clean water bill

Which of the following is an example of bureaucratic rulemaking?

The secretary of defense being called to testify before a congressional committee

Which of the following scenarios best illustrates a formal check on the power of the bureaucracy?

Bureaucratic departments and agencies

On January 30, 2017, President Donald Trump signed an executive order requiring that for each new regulation added, at least two existing regulations be eliminated. Which combination of government actors has the power to fulfill President Trump’s executive order?

Rule-making

On July 31, 2018, the United States Department of Education announced in the Federal Register its intention to establish a committee focusing on the implementation of federal programs. Which is the likely product of this committee’s work?

an iron triangle

Lobbyists from the Airlines for America, an advocacy group that represents commercial airlines, work with members of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure and officials from the United States Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to discuss a new policy that addresses issues of airline safety. This scenario best illustrates