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1. The primary level of federal bureaucracy that helps the president and Congress administer policy is
2. One explicit constitutional responsibility given to the president that has enabled modern presidents to mobilize public opinion is
3. For a law to be passed, there are _________________ steps between the introduction of a bill and sending it to the president’s desk.
4. George W. Bush tried to alter the power of the presidency by using this obscure theory that had never been implemented.
5. The president’s right to withhold information from Congress is
6. "States are authorized to redraw congressional districts following each U.S. Census and often create districts favorable to the party in power in a process called"
7. The Senate is less formal than the House because coordination is not as difficult. The Senate organizes its business through
8. Bureaucrats suffer all of the following EXCEPT
9. Constitutionally, the president does not have much legislative authority because
10. A small class of executive orders asserts presidential authority implicitly through the
11. The departments of Agriculture, Labor, and Commerce differ from the Treasury, the Justice Department, and the Department of Defense because the former
12. As head of state, the president can use ____________ as a means of avoiding the treaty ratification process in Congress.
13. Bureaucratic agencies that are placed outside of cabinet departments to achieve political goals for the president are
14. Executive orders are
15. As commander in chief of the armed forces, the president has the power to
16. The Department of Defense was a consolidation of several departments after
17. The president has control of executive bureaucracies; this control is exercised best through
18. The rules and procedures of Congress are designed generally to
19. Who are the representatives in each party that form the communication network that bring each party together?
20. The modern institutional presidency has a chief of staff that oversees a White House office of about __________________staffers.
21. Congressional committees and subcommittees exist
22. Due to increased judiciary rulings that created procedural standards on bureaucracies, Congress passed the
23. In the nineteenth century, the rotation in office and the spoils system led to the bureaucratization of government workers, because
24. Congressional votes along party lines declined after the turn of the twentieth century, and ticket splitting became commonplace due to
25. The OMB is a vital part of the Executive Office of the President (EOP) because it oversees

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