Unit 3 Part 3: Budget and Bueracracy

Question 1

What does the Congressional Budget Office do?

Answer 1

coordinate budget making, studies presidential budget proposals, projects new program costs, and tracks congressional spending

Question 2

What does the General Accounting Office serve as?

Answer 2

Watchdog over the spending of funds appropriated by Congress, informing members about specific program costs

Question 3

Who approves Cabinet candidates?

Answer 3

Senate

Question 4

What is the main factor limiting the Cabinet leaders?

Answer 4

disloyalty

Question 5

What does the National Security Council do?

Answer 5

link the key foreign and military policy advisors

Question 6

How many members are in the Council of Economic Advisers?

Answer 6

3

Question 7

What does the Office of Management and Budget do?

Answer 7

assists the President on the budget

Question 8

How many cabinet members are there?

Answer 8

15

Question 9

What are the four White House primary staff?

Answer 9

Chief of Staff, Deputy Chiefs of Staff, Counselor to the President, Senior Advisors

Question 10

What is the spoils system?

Answer 10

the practice of giving offices in favor of political supporters

Question 11

What did the Pendelton Civil Service Act do?

Answer 11

replace the spoils system with a merit based system.

Question 12

What does the Hatch Act do?

Answer 12

prohibits government employees from engaging in political activities.

Question 13

What are the three parts of an iron triangle?

Answer 13

congress committee, lobbyist, bureaucratic agency

Question 14

What are issue networks?

Answer 14

small interest groups that continually form and disband according to policy issues

Question 15

What does the Department of State do?

Answer 15

advise the president on foreign matters

Question 16

What does the Department of Interior do?

Answer 16

manage federal lands

Question 17

What are entitlements?

Answer 17

Policies for which Congress has obligated itself to pay X level of benefit to Y number of recipients

Question 18

What are Omnibus Bills?

Answer 18

appropriations bills all together in one bill

Question 19

What are Continuing resolutions

Answer 19

laws that allow agencies to spend at the previous years level

Question 20

What are the three sources of Bureaucratic power?

Answer 20

expertise, clientele groups, connections

Question 21

What is gerrymandering?

Answer 21

Process of redrawing legislative boundaries for the purpose of benefiting the party in power.

Question 22

Who is the president pro tempore?

Answer 22

Head officer of the senate in absence of Vice President

Question 23

What are executive agreements?

Answer 23

An agreement made between the executive branch of the US government and a foreign government without ratification by the Senate.

Question 24

What is the free rider problem?

Answer 24

some of those who benefit from resources, goods, or services do not pay for them