Executive

• Policy Agenda: Formal and Informal Powers
• Informal Powers

  • Threatening to veto a bill
  • Pocket veto - pres. doesn't reply to the bill and it expires (vetoed)
  • Bargaining and Persuasion
  • Executive Order
  • Signing Statement
• Commander-in-Chief: The pres. can't declare war, only Congress can
• Executive Order: Direct the military and federal bureaucracy
• Signing Statement: When signing a bill, the pres. can issue this to inform the nation how the executive branch interprets this law
• Cabinet: Heads of executive agencies
• Federal Court DRAMA

  • SC nominations
• Federalist 70

  • Hamilton
  • Single executive can act decisively
  • Executive power is checked by othr branches
• Bully Pulpit

  • Use of presidency to influence public opinion to bring upon change
  • State of the Union
• Formal Powers

  • Veto a bill
  • Commander-in-chief
  • Executive agreements