Government 12 (updated)

Cabinet:  establishes minimum wage

What is the head of 14 cabinet departments called?

How many cabinet departments does the President have?

Cabinet:  issues passports, visas and travel warnings.

Cabinet: Addressing energy, environmental & nuclear challenges

EOP that gives the President a security briefing everyday?

What does the bureaucratic feature of job specialization promote?

Which type of law has been passed by the legislative branch of government?

Cabinet Agencies:  Centers for Disease Control, Food and Drug Administration, HIPAA

Which type of law are regulations drawn up by government bureaucracy; has the force of law?

Cabinet:  provides benefits, pensions, & medical programs for those who have served 

What bureaucracy benefit defines standards to help with turnover of employees?

Which of the following is not an achievement of the federal bureaucracy?

Cabinet: aids wage earners, job seekers, retirees; improves working conditions, benefits/rights

Which independent agencies are meant to impose/enforce regulations free of political influence?

Cabinet responsible for Obama Care?

Which act gave everyday citizens access to information that had been previously withheld?

The quality of one's work; standard for employment

Cabinet:  provide affordable child care, food safety, and immunizations

Attorney General?

Cabinet Agencies: National Park Service, Bureau of Indian Affairs, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service

Official spokesman for the administration

Cabinet positions are nominated by the President and confirmed by whom?

Cabinet:  aviation, roads and bridges, trucks, railroads, public transit, maritime, pipelines

Cabinet:  farming, land protection and food safety

Cabinet Agency: Food Safety and Inspection Service, Forest Service

Cabinet: Protect health/well-being by advancing medicine, public health & social services

Vague, sprawling language to describe something simple

Secretary of Defense?

Cabinet:  Protects the integrity of U.S. financial system; Manages gov. finances and resources

Cabinet Agency:  Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration 

Cabinet:  fast, safe, efficient, accessible & convenient transportation system

Cabinet Agency:  U.S. Mint

Cabinet Agency:  Office of Science and Energy, Nuclear Security Adminstration

The civilian branch of a bureaucracy that carries out the administrative tasks of government

The FCC & the CPSC are examples of what type of independent agency?

Yearly Congressional approval of budgets: setting aside money for a specific purpose

Cabinet Agency:  U.S. Coast Guard, Secret Service, U.S. Customs and Border Patrol

Who is the Secretary of State?

EOP prepares annual budget, evaluates budget requests, exercises control over leg. program?

NASA is an example of what type of independent agency?

Cabinet Agency:  Patent and Trademark Office; U.S. Census Bureau

Process of examining a department's compliance with the law & crutinizing its budget requests

Department of Justice

Largest government agency; provide military forces to deter war & protect our country

Cabinet:  Enforce the law and defend interests of U.S. according to the law

Which of the following is not an independent agency?

Coordinates all messages coming from the White House; accurately reflecting the POTUS position

Cabinet:  Maintains military cemeteries

Cabinet:  Highest priority is to protect Americas from the threat of terrorism.

Cabinet agencies:  IRS 

Which of the following is not a check/restriction against the bureaucracy?

Counsel to the president?

The act of committing or entrusting a task or power to another

Cabinet Agency:  Federal Student Aid

What is considered America's fourth branch of government?

One who carries out the administrative tasks of government.

Secretary of Treasury?

Cabinet:  Shape and sustain peaceful and prosperous world; permanent seat on the U.N.

Oversees the office of executive clerk, records management, and correspondence

Cabinet:  Promote student achievement and preparation for global competitiveness 

Cabinet:  Nation's energy system, develop clean energy technologies, enhance nuclear security

Who created the EOP?

Oval Office, office of the VP, and Roosevelt Room are all located

Cabinet:  Protects America's natural resources/heritage, honors our cultures/tribal communities

Which type of independent government agency is run like a business?

Cabinet:  Create strong communities, affordable homes to buy or rent free from discrimination  

Press Secretary to President Trump

Department of Interior

Cabinet: prevent/control crime; fair/impartial exercise of justice; punish unlawful behavior 

Cabinet Agencies:  FBI, DEA, and ATF

Cabinet Agencies:  Occupational Safety and Health Administration, Bureau of Labor Statistics

Administrative System staffed by mostly non-elected officials; implement and oversee gov dept.

Which act required federal agencies to hold well-announced public hearings?

Cabinet created after 9/11 by George Bush?

Which office can audit a federal agency's finances and request a public hearing?

Advises the president, selects W.H. staff, manages people, info, and paperwork into Oval Office

EOP that is a policymaking group over security and intelligence matters?

Cabinet:  prevent terrorism, manage borders, enforce immigration laws, secure cyberspace

Established the Civil Service Commission and abolished the old spoils system

Cabinet Agency:  Office of Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity, FHA

Cabinet Agencies:  Federal Aviation Administration

Oversees staff salaries and budgets, positions, privileges, parking, and passes

Department of Homeland Security

Cabinet: distributes and monitors financial aid; collects data and research on American schools

USPS is an example of what type of independent agency?

Cabinet Agency:  Office of Elementary and Secondary Education

Cabinet:  collects taxes, borrows money, mints coins, and prints bills

Department of Transportation

Cabinet Agency:  Veteran's Health Adminstration

Department of Health and Human Services

Which cabinet used to be the Department of War?

Cabinet:  Creates conditions for economic growth/opportunity; helps facilitate global trading

An informal advisory body brought together by the president to serve his needs

Which of the following is not part of the EOP?

White House Chief of Staff?

What bureaucratic benefit increases speed by limiting conflicts over who has the authority?

Bureaucratic paperwork needed to satisfy political and legal requirements

Which of the following is a problem with the Bureacracy?

Cabinet: Identifies major issues in education, enforces federal laws prohibiting discrimination