AP GOV Exam: Key Players: Executive branch

Who are the players?

President Vice President, Cabinet Members, Heads of Federal Agencies

Enumerated powers for President? (8)

commander in chief, veto, grant pardons, appoint judges and executive officials, make treaties, state of union address, call special meetings with Congress, receive foreign diplomats

Implied powers for President (5)

Executive ordered, executive agreements, executive privilege, bully pulpit, signing statements

What is a bully pulpit?

Presidents position to speak and be heard (especially through media)

Presidents checks?

Veto bills and appoint to federal courts, issue pardons, and influence legislative agenda.

Bureaucracy administrative power? (4)

Implement and enforce laws, write rules and regulations, enforce rules through permits and fines, issue administration adjudications

Bureaucracy discretionary authority (3)

use judgment to fill vague details of laws, significant power in rulemaking, can delay or alter executive or congressional goals

Bureaucracy influence tools? (2)

Iron triangle, issue networks

What is the Iron Triangle?

dynamic between congress committees, interest groups, and regulatory agencies,

What is a linkage institution?

anything that connects the people to the government (media, political parties, elections, interest groups)

What is an interest group?

lobby lawmakers and buercrates that fund raise for candidates that endorse their ideas

Federalist 70?

Power of a single strong prezzy

Chief Diplomat?

Oversee foreign policy

Chief of state?

symbolic leader rep

Chief of party?

leader of political party

Chief legislator?

influences lawmaking and legislative agenda

Chief administrator?

oversee executive branch

Pocket Veto?

veto by not signing a bill within 10 days

who is in the executive office of the president?

Agencies such as the OMB

Who is the chief of staff?

assists the president not confirmed by senate

What are federal departments?

Major agencies that carry out federal government functions

How many executive departments are there (seccretaries)??

15

Attorney General?

head of the department of Justice

Independent Executive Agencies?

Agencies that operate outside the direct control of the presidents control (NASA)

Executive Regulatory Commission?

Agencies that create and enforce rules for specific industries (FCC)

Government Corporation?

a government owned business (USPS)

What is a Lobbist?

a person employed by and acts for am organized interest group or corporation to try to influence public policy

Fiscal Policy?

Taxing and spending

Monetary Policy?

controls money supply

Monetary policy players

federal reserve

fiscal policy players

congress ad prezzy

How many electorate votes to win?

270

What is a caucus

meeting of party members to select canidate