chapter 12

Question 1

issues passports

Answer 1

department of state

Question 2

originally named the department of war

Answer 2

department of defense

Question 3

manages the national parks

Answer 3

department of interior

Question 4

oversees school-lunch and food stamp programs

Answer 4

department of agriculture

Question 5

enforces work laws such as minimum wage

Answer 5

department of labor

Question 6

administrates Medicare and Medicaid

Answer 6

department of health and human service

Question 7

oversees highway air travel and railroads

Answer 7

department of transportation

Question 8

reduces America’s vulnerability to terrorism

Answer 8

department of homeland security

Question 9

coins money and print bills

Answer 9

department of treasury

Question 10

includes the FBI

Answer 10

department of justice

Question 11

conducts the census

Answer 11

department of commerce

Question 12

provides public housing and home financing

Answer 12

department of housing and urban development

Question 13

oversees benefits, pension, and medical programs for those formerly in the military

Answer 13

department of veteran affairs

Question 14

oversees nuclear weapons research

Answer 14

department of energy

Question 15

gives federal aid to public school

Answer 15

department of education

Question 16

civilian employees who perform the administrative tasks of government are known as the

Answer 16

civil service

Question 17

which act established the merit one’s work as the standard for hiring and promoting civil employees

Answer 17

Pendleton act

Question 18

which member of the white house office advises the president of politics policy and management selects key people for the white house staff and controls and manages staff members their work, and the information and paperwork that reach the oval office

Answer 18

chief of staff

Question 19

which member of the white house office is the official spokesman for the administration and meets with the white house press corps

Answer 19

press secretary

Question 20

the head of most cabinet departments is called

Answer 20

secretary

Question 21

which department has thousands of workers at the pentagon

Answer 21

department of defense

Question 22

NASA is an example

Answer 22

independent executive agency

Question 23

the US postal service is an example of an

Answer 23

government corporation

Question 24

the food and drug administration is an example of

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independent regulatory commission

Question 25

which act allowed citizens to have access to previously withheld material

Answer 25

freedom of information act

Question 26

which act requires federal agencies to hold well announced public hearings rather than closed-door meeting

Answer 26

sunshine act

Question 27

which term refers to an administrative system in which agencies staffed largely by nonelected officials perform specific tasks in accordance with standard procedures

Answer 27

bureaucracy

Question 28

the member of the white house office is typically called

Answer 28

the white house staff

Question 29

the first lady has officials in the _____ wing of the white house

Answer 29

east

Question 30

members of the ____ are the administrative heads of the executive departments designed to assist the president and meet the demands of Americas growth

Answer 30

the cabinet

Question 31

the department of state is to the secretary as the department of justice to

Answer 31

attorney general

Question 32

heads of cabinet departments are appointed by the ____ and approved by____

Answer 32

president and senate

Question 33

a law passed by the legislature and signed by the president is known as the

Answer 33

statutory law

Question 34

regulations devised by the bureaucracy are known as

Answer 34

administrative law

Question 35

is the process of examining a department’s compliance with the law and scrutinizing its budget requests

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oversight

Question 36

what are a bureaucrats

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a civil servant dedicated to the details of adminstrative procedure

Question 37

what are the three levels of bureaucratic structure in the executive branch

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• the executive office of the president
• the cabinet
• independent agencies

Question 38

what is located in the west wing

Answer 38

including the oval office, the offices of the executive staff, the room where the cabinet meets, and other rooms such as the press briefing room

Question 39

which department has the largest budget among the cabinet departments

Answer 39

department of health and human services

Question 40

the department of homeland security was created

Answer 40

created as a response to September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the world trade center and the pentagon

Question 41

which agency of the homeland security department checks passports and baggage at the airports

Answer 41

transportation security administration

Question 42

bureaucracies create defined methods which are called

Answer 42

standard operating procedures

Question 43

what is sometimes referred to as the “fourth branch” of government

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federal bureaucracy

Question 44

what is appropriations

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the term for money budgeted by congress to fund programs

Question 45

the positive results of the bureaucracy in the US today:

Answer 45

• the technology to travel to the moon
• us postal service
• the interstate highway system
• social security
• the consumer product safety commission

Question 46

what were the original titles and responsibilities of the first four cabinet posts

Answer 46

1. Department of state: to advise the president on foreign policy
2. department of treasury: to collect taxes, borrow money, and mint coins
3. department of war: to oversee the national military
4. attorney general office: to give legal advice to the present and oversee the prison system