Final Flashcards
Important joint committee
Conference committee
Significant incumbent advantage
Incumbency
Most powerful person in Congress
Speaker of the house
Talking a bill to death
Filibuster
Vote to end a senate debate
Cloture
Presidential power often misused
Pardon power
Law to limit powers of commander & chief
War powers resolution
Most important presidential appointment
Chief of state
A mini treaty
Dètente
More open access to the Oval Office
The wheel
This organization does investigative work for Congress
GAO
This man abused his bureaucratic authority
JE Hoover
Law that makes bureaucratic documents more open
Freedom of info act
EPA & Sierra Club
Issue network
Special power enjoyed by the Supreme Court
Judicial review
Number of district courts
50
Length of term for federal judges
Lifetime
He helps screen federal appeals to the Supreme Court
Solicitor General
To make certain
Writ of Certiorari
Written opinions n that disagrees
Dissenting
Written opinion that disagrees
Dissenting
A power that Supreme Court lacks
Pardon power
He spoke of the Eute Model
CW Mills
All public policy is forums lasted based on this
Mass media
Anti-monopoly law targeting Rockefeller
Sherman Anti-trust
Program to rebuild Europe after WWII
Marshall plan
Worst moment of the Cold War
Cuban middle crisis
Americas treatment position regarding foreign involvements
Isolation
Idea of an international communist conspiracy
Domino theory
This plays a role in foreign policy
Tariff
This policy kept nuclear peace for 50 years
The MAD doctrine
Example of a rogue state
North Korea
Bonus
National self interest, Bureaucracy & co free
A primary power of Congress
Budget
