Ch.20 Administrative Law

Dunder Mifflin pays income and other taxes collected by the federal Internal Revenue Service (IRS). Like other federal administrative agencies, the IRS was created by __.

When Congress creates an agency as part of an enabling statute so that the agency can create detailed rules that reinforce statutory language it is delegating ___ power to the agency.

Businesses that want a National Cyber Security Agency consolidating the various administrative agencies’ cyber units into one central agency charged with preventing hacking of federal government computer systems should concentrate their lobbying efforts on __.

The mightiest weapon that Congress possesses to limit and control administrative agencies is ___.

A statute enacted by Congress that has become an important weapon for the judicial branch in limiting or reigning in administrative agencies is ____ because it gives businesses a basis to challenge those agencies' rules and adjudications: the arbitrary and capricious prohibition.

• Enabling Statute Act

• Enabling Procedure Act

• Judicial Restraint Act

• Administrative Procedure Act

The executive branch has a few ways to limit administrative agencies, including all of the following except:

• Appointing and terminating federal officers.

• Vetoing an enabling act to prevent an agency from being created.

• Vetoing legislation that would increase an agency's power.

• Creating an agency by executive order.

Every federal administrative agency's three basic functions include all of the following except:

• making rules

• adjudicating disputes between businesses and the admin agency about those rules

• enforcing those rules.

• enforcing court orders.

Before adopting new rules/regulations to govern Internet-based phone services, the Federal Communications Commission may NOT ___.

• request testimony from interest groups and interested businesses or persons

• hold hearings to acquire facts relevant to the proposed rule.

• order businesses targeted by rule to provide certain documents.

• ignore the Admin Procedure Act to streamline proceedings.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture is a federal agency. Virginia has a parallel state agriculture administrative agency. If these agencies’ regulations conflict, the __'s regulations take precedence, i.e., control or prevail.

The Federal Aviation Administration issues a legislative rule, called the 24/7 rule, to address safety concerns surrounding flight personnel. This rule is as ___.

• persuasive as an expert's opinion

• as unenforceable as an executive's order

• as binding as a statute passed by the legislature

• as suggestive as a guideline