Chapter 11 - The Presidency

a veto that is automatically triggered if the president does not act on a given piece of legislation passed during the final 10 days of a legislative session.

• pocket veto

• veto

• presidential statement

• pocket statement

a president's constitutional power to turn down acts of Congress; May be overridden by 2/3 vote of each house of Congress

• pocket veto

• veto

• executive order

• executive statement

Analysts and advisers to the president, each of whom is often given the title "special assistant"

• Cabinet

• White House staff

• Executive Office of the President

• Independent Government Agency

the role of the president as head of the national military and the state National Guard units

• Executive prerogative

• Commander in chief

• Party leader

• Military leader

announcements made by the president when signing bills into law, often presenting the president's interpretation of the law

• executive statement

• executive order

• executive signing

• signing statements

a presidential foreign policy advisory council composed of the president, the vice president, the secretary of state, the secretary of defense, and other officials invited by the president.

• Office of Management and Budget

• Defense Department

• National Security Council

• White House Military Office

powers claimed by a president that are not expressed in the Constitution but are inferred from it

• expressed powers

• inherent powers

• implied powers

• delegated powers

the president's inherent power to bring a legislative agenda before Congress

• legislative initiative

• legislative prerogative

• legislative statement

• presidential legislation

a rule or regulation issued by the president that has the effect and formal status of legislation

• executive statement

• executive order

• veto

• pocket veto

The president's advisers and heads of the fifteen executive departments are appointed by the president with the consent of the Senate.

• Cupboard

• Cabinet

• White House staff

• Executive Office of the President (EOP)