A) It is subjected to floor debate.
B) It goes to the House and Senate budget committees.
C) It is reviewed by the Office of Management and Budget.
D) It is marked up by the full Senate before moving to the House.
E) It is referred to the House and Senate appropriations committees.
G) C) and D)
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A) provide jobs to merit appointees.
B) tie the administration more closely to the people it served.
C) increase congressional control of the bureaucracy.
D) increase judicial control of the bureaucracy.
E) provide jobs to lawyers.
G) A) and B)
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A) It has acquired wide judicial and adjudication powers to deal with inter-agency disputes.
B) It has changed from a presidential-executive support agency to largely a congressional support agency.
C) It has been given broader powers over time to actually grant additional funds or take away funds directly from agencies.
D) It has had its broad powers limited from general oversight down to keeping track of agency spending.
E) It has moved from a limited role of keeping track of agency spending to also monitoring whether the agency is implementing policies in the way Congress intended.
G) B) and C)
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The five major types of organizations wi...View Answer
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A) Office of Policy Development.
B) Office of Management and Budget.
C) Council of Economic Advisors.
D) White House Office.
E) Office of the Vice President.
G) C) and D)
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A) six months
B) one year
C) two years
D) three years
E) four years
G) B) and C)
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A) usually works in any agency that needs her or his services.
B) runs trials,but all decisions are made by juries.
C) can gather evidence and take testimony.
D) issues only advisory opinions.
E) seeks to protect federal agencies,not individual citizens.
G) B) and D)
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A) preserving forests for recreation,and protecting endangered species
B) preserving forests in response to environmental concerns,and coordinating with the National Park Service for creating park lands
C) serving both the interests of lumber sellers and mining interests
D) opening up forests both for logging and promoting clean air
E) preserving forests for environmental reasons,and opening them up for logging
G) A) and E)
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A) The president
B) Members of the Senate
C) Career bureaucrats in the Department of Commerce and the Federal Trade Commission
D) Members of the House
E) Federal mediators
G) A) and E)
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A) be fired from their jobs.
B) go on strike.
C) belong to a union.
D) be restricted in their election activities.
E) contribute to political campaigns.
G) A) and D)
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A) is composed of civil employees that can be fired more easily than normal career civil servants.
B) was designed to combat abuse of the patronage system.
C) is composed of civil employees that can be assigned by the president to any position within the bureaucracy.
D) has been more successful in practice than its proponents anticipated.
E) assigns most of its senior executives to work within a different agency than the one in which they originally worked.
G) B) and E)
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A) Federal employees are prohibited from forming labor unions.
B) Federal employees can form labor unions,but their unions by law have limited authority.
C) There are no restrictions on the creation and powers of labor unions by federal employees.
D) Among federal employees,only employees of government corporations can legally form labor unions.
E) Federal employees can form labor unions but are not allowed to participate in collective bargaining.
G) C) and E)
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A) acts of Congress.
B) federalism.
C) regulatory rulings.
D) court rulings.
E) the will of the people.
G) A) and C)
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A) It is reviewed by the Office of Management and Budget.
B) It has reached its final approval and is implemented.
C) It is sent to the president to sign or veto.
D) It is given to the president for any further executive changes to be added.
E) It is referred to the House and Senate appropriations committees for implementation.
G) A) and B)
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A) clientele groups.
B) pressure groups.
C) entitlement groups.
D) programmatic groups.
E) recipient groups.
G) C) and D)
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A) Transportation
B) Energy
C) Education
D) Veterans Affairs
E) Homeland Security
G) A) and C)
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The bureaucracy's primary function is policy implementation.Policy implementation refers to the process of carrying out the authoritative decisions of Congress,the president,and the courts.This task occurs for the most part within the confines of the federal budget and can be relatively straightforward (in the case of agencies that are charged with the delivery of services),but there are also many areas where agency employees have discretionary authority.
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A) cabinet department.
B) government corporation.
C) independent agency.
D) regulatory agency.
E) presidential commission.
G) A) and C)
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