The Powers of the Presidency

Question 1

What are the 10 powers of the President?

Answer 1

1) Propose legislaiton to congress
2) Submit budget to congress
3) Sign bills passed by congress
4) Veto bills passed by congress
5) Appoint Federal and SC court judges
6) Appoint executive members
7) Negotiate international treaties
8) Pardon felons
9) Chief Executive
10) Commander in chief

Question 2

How do you remember the 10 powers of the President?

Answer 2

4 congres 
2 nominate  
2 chief 
1 negotiate 
1 pardon

Question 3

What is the most obvious way that a President can fulfil the function of proposing legislation to congress?

Answer 3

State of the union address

Question 4

What must the president find for proposing legislation to congress?

Answer 4

A sponser

Question 5

What three things qualifies the state of the union address?

Answer 5

1) joint session
2) every January
3) enumartes legislative agenda for the upcoming year

Question 6

Outside of the state of the union address, how can the President propose legislation?

Answer 6

Calling a press conference or making an announcement at a public event

Question 7

Give three examples of Presidential initiative under Obama

Answer 7

healthcare reform
wall street regulation reform
credit card regulation reform

Question 8

How does the annual budget get submitted?

Answer 8

Drawn up by the Office of Management and Budget, part of EXOP, then submitted by the President to Congress

Question 9

What follows the annual budget submission?

Answer 9

a lengthy bargaining process, especially if the President and Congress are controlled by different parties

Question 10

What happens if the bargaining process following the budget fails?

Answer 10

Government shutdown, as it did in October 2013

Question 11

When would the president want to sign legislation?

Answer 11

when he wants to take personal credit for it

Question 12

The use of the veto is usually a sign of what?

Answer 12

The failure of presidential negotiation

Question 13

From 1789-2009 fewer than how many vetoes were used?

Answer 13

1500

Question 14

From 1789-2009 just over how many vetoes were overridden by congress ?

Answer 14

100

Question 15

What is the overall success rate for vetoes?

Answer 15

93%

Question 16

What was the third lowest veto success rate for a President ever?

Answer 16

Bush Jnr 64%

Question 17

Do you veto the whole bill or bits of it?

Answer 17

Whole bill

Question 18

Where do you return the bill to if you veto it?

Answer 18

The house that first considered it

Question 19

What needs to be included with a veto?

Answer 19

A veto message, explaining his objections to it

Question 20

What are the two options for congress when faced with a veto?

Answer 20

Do nothing or attempt to override it

Question 21

Like the veto itself, what is special about the threat of the veto being overridden?

Answer 21

the threat of it is just as valuable

Question 22

What will Presidents often not do with vetoes and why?

Answer 22

Veto bills that they know will get overridden as being overridden can seem damaging to a presidency

Question 23

How many vetoes did Obama use in his first term and how many were overridden by congress?

Answer 23

he used 2 regular vetoes, neither of which was overridden by congress

Question 24

Which of Bush’s vetoes passed and which one was overridden?

Answer 24

Sustained his veto on Children’s Health Insurance but the veto was overridden with the Food Conservation/Energy Bill

Question 25

Describe the Pocket veto?

Answer 25

When congress has adjourned, and the President does not sign the bill it is lost. As congress is no longer in session, it cannot be overridden

Question 26

In Bush’s 8 years, how many times did he use the Pocket veto?

Answer 26

One

Question 27

The Power of Chief executive is better thought of as what?

Answer 27

chief of the executive

Question 28

How is the President Chief executive?

Answer 28

He is in charge of running the executive branch of government

Question 29

Though the President is Chief Executive, where is most of this power delegated to on a day-to-day basis?

Answer 29

Heads of government departments and agencies

Question 30

Though the President can use his power to nominate executive branch officials to nominate hundreds, what are the most ones?

Answer 30

The 15 heads of department

Question 31

Who confirms the appointment of the executive heads?

Answer 31

Senate

Question 32

Not only does the President nominate the SC but also…

Answer 32

Hundreds of posts on federal trial and appeal posts

Question 33

Why is the presidential appointment of the judiciary a way to leave a legacy?

Answer 33

As all appointments are for life

Question 34

Who did Obama appoint to the Supreme Court in 2010?

Answer 34

Elena Kagan

Question 35

When was the power of Commander in chief used most?

Answer 35

In the imperial presidency of 1940 onwards of WW2, Vietnamese war, Korean war and gulf war as well as Bush’s Afghanistan and Iraq

Question 36

Thought the President can negotiate treaties, what is the check on this?

Answer 36

The senate must ratify with a ⅔ majority

Question 37

What treaty did Obama negotiate with the Russians?

Answer 37

START Strategic Arms Reduction treaty

Question 38

When was START ratified?

Answer 38

December 2010

Question 39

When did the Senate reject Clinton’s Comprehensive test Ban Treaty

Answer 39

1999

Question 40

How can executive agreements be thought of?

Answer 40

Treaty - lite

Question 41

What are executive agreements?

Answer 41

Agreements on trade or military co-opertion that are not legally binding so do not have to be ratified by the Senate, just reported to congress

Question 42

In what kind of cases is the Power to pardon felons mostly used?

Answer 42

Uncontroversial ones

Question 43

what is the controversial Ford pardoning case?

Answer 43

1974 pardoned Nixon

Question 44

How did Clinton cause controversy with his pardons?

Answer 44

He pardoned 140 on his last day in office in January 2001

Question 45

How did Bush use the presidential pardon more sparingly than did Clinton?

Answer 45

he used it just 189 times in 8 years but Clinton used 140 times on his last day

Question 46

How many did Obama pardon in his first term?

Answer 46

22