JEOPARDY #5 Ch. 12-15

1. JEOPARDY #5Ch. 12-15

3. Geometry of Government - 100 Alliances among bureaucrats, interest groups, and congressional subcommitee members and staff formed to promote their common causes

4. Geometry of Government - 100 What are IRON TRIANGLES?

5. Geometry of Government - 200 Synonym for IRON TRIANGLES which indicates that, although they fly “UNDER the radar” they are the places in government where the real decisions are made

6. Geometry of Government - 200 What are SUBGOVERNMENTS?

7. Geometry of Government - 300 Tobacco farmers, tobacco industry representatives, and supportive interest groups make it up

8. Geometry of Government - 300 What is the TOBACCO LOBBY?

9. Geometry of Government - 400 Add it to the TOBACCO LOBBY (ag., ind., and int. gr.) and the subcommittees of the House and Senate agriculture committees, and you get an IRON TRIANGLE.

10. Geometry of Government - 400 What is the tobacco division of the Department of Agriculture?

11. Geometry of Government - 500 Because competing interests discuss an issue both inside and outside government, an agency may be better described as embedded in one of these (consisting of people in interest groups, on congressional staffs, in universities, and in the mass media), rather than as a part of an iron triangle.

12. Geometry of Government - 500 What is an ISSUE NETWORK?

13. Reasonable Reasons - 100 It’s the most important reason for which senators are reluctant to invoke cloture.

14. Reasonable Reasons - 100 What is because the senator might want to engage in his or her own filibuster one day?

15. Reasonable Reasons - 200 Although DUPLICATION – the spreading out of responsibility (for ex., drug trafficking – Customs Services, FBI, DEA, Border Patrol, & the Defense Dept.), sometimes inhibits the responsiveness of government, Congress rarely gives any one job to a single agency for this reason.

16. Reasonable Reasons - 200 What is to keep any one agency from becoming all powerful?

17. Reasonable Reasons- 300 It best explains why only 25 members of the 109th Congress were under the age of 40

18. Reasonable Reasons - 300 What is the advantage of INCUMBENCY?

19. Reasonable Reasons- 400 It’s the reason the 2005 Consolidated Appropriations Act was widely criticized.

20. Reasonable Reasons - 400 What is too many EARMARKS – too much PORK BARREL?

21. Reasonable Reasons- 500 Cuts proposed by presidents (like Reagan) to the funding of regulatory agencies, which result in a reduction in regulatory oversight, • Are an example of how presidents use executive management to block legislative authority • Are a way to block the effectiveness of iron triangles. • Are not subject to a legislative check. • Are known as deregulation. • Were held to be unconstitutional by the Supreme Court on the same basis as the line-item veto.

22. Reasonable Reasons - 500 What is choice A. Are an example of how presidents use executive management to block legislative authority?

23. Big Names - 100 The U.S. Postal Service, TVA, Amtrack, and the CPB, for example

24. Big Names - 100 What are some big government corporations?

25. Big Names - 200 THE ICC, FTC, NLRB, FRB, and SEC

26. Big Names - 200 What are some Independent Regulatory Agencies or government “watchdogs” ?

27. Big Names - 300 GSA, NSF, and NASA

28. Big Names - 300 What are some of the Independent Executive Agencies?

29. Big Names - 400 Hillary Clinton, Timothy Geithner, Leon Panetta, Eric Holder, Ray LaHood…to name a few

30. Big Names - 400 Who are some of the current members of President Obama’s cabinet?

31. Big Names - 500 Tom Donilon, Martin Dempsey, James Clapper…and, of course, Barak Obama, Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, Leon Panetta, to name a few

32. Big Names - 500 Who are some of the current members of the National Security Council?

33. Making a List & Checking It Twice - 100 Red tape, conflict, duplication, unchecked growth, waste, and lack of accountability

34. Making a List & Checking It Twice - 100 What are criticisms of the bureaucracy?

35. Making a List & Checking It Twice - 200 Limiting appointments to 6-12 years, making it easier to fire civil servants, rotating professionals between agencies and from outside, rewarding employee initiatives, fewer rules, and emphasizing customer satisfaction

36. Making a List & Checking It Twice - 200 What are suggestions for reforming the bureaucracy?

37. Making a List & Checking It Twice - 300 Hierarchical authority structure, task specialization, extensive rules, clear goals, the merit principle, and impersonality

38. Making a List & Checking It Twice - 300 What are, according to Max Weber, the basic characteristics of a bureaucracy?

39. Making a List & Checking It Twice - 400 The presidency has become a more powerful institution for all the following reasons EXCEPT: • The US is more active in foreign affairs • The bureaucracy has expanded as the govt. has taken on more responsibilities • New technology requires more immediate response to crises than Congress can offer • The Supreme Court has increasingly interpreted the Constitution in favor of the pres. • The advent of TV has made the presidency more public

40. Making a List & Checking It Twice - 400 What is choice d. the Supreme Court has increasingly interpreted the Constitution in favor of the president?

41. Making a List & Checking It Twice - 500 • The War Powers Resolution • The Budget and Impoundment Control Act • Growth of Congressional Staff & Research Agencies • Curbs on Executive Privilege • Watergate and Impeachment • Congressional oversight of intelligence agencies • Greater scrutiny of executive appointments • Use of the Independent Counsel Law

42. Making a List & Checking It Twice - 500 What are Congressional attempts to check the “imperial presidency”?

43. Determined! - 100 When it issues one of these, the House Rules Committee has determined that a bill may not be amended from the floor during debate.

44. DETERMINED! - 100 What is a closed rule?

45. Determined! - 200 Until the early 20th century, the speaker had the power to appoint chairmen of standing committees, when a House revolt stripped him of that power. Since then, this has been a key factor in determining chairmanships

46. Determined! - 200 What is seniority?

47. Determined! - 300 Until the 1970s, the seniority system operated virtually automatically. Today it’s still important, but this is how a member gets to be a House committee chair

48. Determined! - 300 What is he or she wins the vote of his or her party members?

49. Determined! - 400 Committee chairs are always members of the majority party. This guy or gal is the person who coulda’-woulda’-shoulda’ been chairman if his or her party weren’t in the minority!

50. Determined! - 400 What is the RANKING MEMBER?