Checks on the Bureaucracy in AP Government

This video tutorial reviews the roles and interactions of the three branches of government: Congress, the Executive, and the Judicial. It explains how each branch makes, enforces, and interprets policy, and how they check and balance the bureaucracy. The video also covers the powers of the President, including issuing executive orders, and the role of the Supreme Court in ruling on the constitutionality of laws and regulations. The tutorial concludes with a review of the key concepts from unit 2.

What is the primary function of Congress in relation to policy?

• To make policy

• To interpret laws

• To enforce laws

• To nominate agency heads

Which branch is responsible for making policy?

• The Judicial Branch

• Congress

• The Executive Branch

• Bureaucratic Agencies

How can Congress ensure bureaucratic agencies follow their intentions?

• Through congressional oversight

• By issuing executive orders

• By ruling actions unconstitutional

• By nominating agency heads

What is the main check Congress has over the bureaucracy?

• Removing funding

• Nominating heads

• Interpreting laws

• Issuing executive orders

What is the purpose of congressional oversight?

• To enforce laws

• To pass new laws

• To nominate agency heads

• To investigate and ensure law compliance

What role does the Senate play in the nomination of agency heads?

• They oversee them

• They nominate them

• They confirm them

• They fire them

What power does the President have over cabinet secretaries?

• The power to fire them

• The power to nominate them

• The power to confirm them

• The power to remove funding

What is a unique action the President can take to influence the bureaucracy?

• Ruling laws unconstitutional

• Issuing executive orders

• Passing legislation

• Holding hearings

How does the judicial branch check the power of bureaucracy?

• By nominating agency heads

• By enforcing laws

• By ruling regulations unconstitutional

• By issuing executive orders

What can the Supreme Court do to bureaucratic regulations?

• Nominate regulators

• Enforce them

• Confirm them

• Strike them down as unconstitutional