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Formal power

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Informal power

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Bicameral

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Senate

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House

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Federal budget

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Oversight

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Speaker of the house

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Bill

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Committee

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Committee hearing

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A method of both houses by which committee members, gather, and analyze information, evidence, and testimony, in deliberation, over a bill prior to full chamber, debate, and vote

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Mark up

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Additions and revisions of a bill done in congressional committee

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Rules committee

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Establishes rules for debate on a bill in the house

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Committee of the whole

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A committee formed in the house to expedite debate on bills

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Discharge petition

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Bring a bill out of committee

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Unanimous consent

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Filibuster

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Cloture

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Conference committee

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Mandatory spending

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Entitlements

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Social security

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A social insurance program funded by a payroll tax on current employers, and employees to be re-distributed to qualifying individuals for retirement, disability, or survivor benefits

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Medicare

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Old people

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Medicaid

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Poor people

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Discretionary spending

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Everything left behind

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Infrastructure

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A set of facilities, structures, and utilities developed, owned, operated, and maintained by the federal, state, and municipal government; includes highways, roads, railroads, bridges, ports, airports, public transportation, water, and sewage systems, electrical, grids, and broadband systems

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Prom barrel

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Logrolling

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Partisan voting

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Polarization

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Gridlock

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Reapportionment

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Redistricting

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Gerrymandering

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Divided government

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Lame duck

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Trustee model

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Delegate model

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Politico model

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Policy agenda

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A list of subjects or issues to which government officials will agree to consider as part of public policy making

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Cabinet

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Heads of departments

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Executive office of the president

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Comprises the offices and agencies that support the work and agenda of the president; consist of the White House office, national security council, and office of management and budget

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Veto

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Pocket veto

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Line item veto

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Commander in chief

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Executive agreement

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Treaty

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Bargaining and persuasion

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Executive ordee

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Signing statement

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Senste confirmation

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Confresssional agenda

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Fed 70

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Strong, single, energetic executive

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22nd amendment

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Term limit

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State of the union

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Formal power of the president that is a nationally broadcast message for agenda, setting that uses the media to influence public views about which policies are the most important

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Bully pulpit

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Agenda setting

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Article III

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Fed 78

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Independence and life tenure of justices

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Judicial review

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Precedent

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Stare decisis

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Hurisdiction

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Original jurisdiction

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Appellate jurisdiction

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Judicial activism

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Judicial restraint

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Fed bureaucracy

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Regulation

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Executive department

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One of the principal units of the executive branch in administrative arms of the president; headed by a secretary, appointed by the president and confirmed by the Senate, and serve at the pleasure of the president

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Executive agency

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Independent regulatory commission

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Government corporation

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Issue network

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Irong triangle

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Specific policy between congress member, agency, and interest group

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Merit system

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Established by pendleton civil service ACT

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Patronage

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Discretionary power

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Rulemaking authority

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Department of homeland security

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Terrorist

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Department of transportation

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Department of beterans affairs

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Department of education

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Environment protection agency

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Federal elections commission

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Securities and echange commission

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Oversight

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Power of the purse

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Compliance monitoring

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