AP Government Bureaucracy Review

The Office of Management and Budget has the primary responsibility for doing which of the following? 

• Implementing federal unemployment policy 
• Preparing the budget
• Appropriating funds for the budget 
• Approving the budget

Which of the following was passed to keep political views from impacting the performance of the federal bureaucracy?

• The Hatch Act
• The Budget and Impoundment Act
• The War Powers Act 
• The Judiciary Act

The Post Office provides services for the American people and tries to sustain their existence through raising their own profits. This type of bureaucratic organization is best described as:

• regulatory agency
• independent commission
• government corporation
• NONE OF THE ABOVE

The cluster of presidential staff agencies that help the president carry out his responsibilities.

• Executive Office of the president

• Cabinet

• Executive agencies

• Government corporations

Advisory council for the president consisting of the heads of the executive departments, the vice president, and a few other officials selected be the president.

• Executive Office of the President

• Cabinet

• Executive agencies

The head of the White House staff

• Chief of Staff

• Secretary of Staff

• Secretary of the White House

• White House Press Secretary

This person is the President’s closest assistant (maybe even more than the VP). They oversee the executive office of the President, select White House staff, manage what is going in and out of the White House, and lobbies on behalf of the President.

• Secretary of State

• Speaker of the House

• White House Chief of Staff

• First Lady

the food and drug administration is considered to be a 

• executive department
• regulatory agency
• government corporation
• independent agency

The Department of State....

• runs our embassies, diplomatic missions and negotiates with other countries
• runs the supreme court
• runs nasa
• runs the FBI

________ , like the Post Office, provide services for a cheaper fee than a private business could.

• executive department
• regulatory agnecy
• government corporation
• independent agency