Unit 2 part 2

• Pocket veto


  President's power to kill a bill. If Congress is still in session after 10 days, the bill is passed. If Congress is not in session, the bill dies
• Executive Orders

  -INFORMAL POWER

  -Allows the President to make a rule, held with the value of a law, that bypasses Congress
• Signing Statements


  Signing statements are ways for Presidents to explain why they allowed a bill to pass
• Cabinet

  -Secretary of...

  -Bureaucracy

  -President's advisers

  -Agency heads

  -Nominated by the President

  -Confirmed by the Senate
• White House Staff

  -Staff that serves President

  -Does not need Senate confirmation
• Appointment power

  The power of the President to appoint or remove the heads of the executive branch
• 22nd Amendment


  Limits the President to 2 terms or 10 years in office
• Federalist No. 70

  -Federalist paper written by Hamilton

  -Energetic executive

  -Talks about the presidency
• Presidential honeymoon

  -The beginning of a President's term in office

  -Time of greatest influence
• Executive Office of the President

  Agencies that perform staff services for the president but are not part of the White House

  Ex: Office of Management and Budget
• Office of Management and Budget

  Presidential staff agency that prepares the president's annual budget proposal, reviews the budget and programs of the executive departments, supplies economic forecasts, and conducts detailed analyses of proposed bills and agency rules
• Chief of Staff

  -Gatekeeper

  -Controls access to the President
• Rally point

  A rise in public approval of the president following a crisis as Americans "rally 'round the flag" and the chief executive
• Mandate


  Something that must be done and followed by the people
• State of the Union Address

  -Formal power

  -A yearly report by the president to Congress describing the nation's condition and recommending programs and policies
• Executive agreement

  -Allows President to make a "treaty" without the approval of Congress

  -Not a "real" treaty
• Iron triangle

  A close relationship between an agency, a congressional committee, and an interest group
• Issue networks

  -Relationships among interest groups, congressional committees and subcommittees, and government agencies that share a common policy concern

  -More common in society

  -Pluralist view
• Independent regulatory Agencies

  Federal agencies created by an act of Congress that are independent of the executive departments