American Gov Chapter 7 terms
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 bureaucracy | a large, complex organization made up of appointed officials |
| Cabinet | the heads of the executive departments that serve as the President's advisers |
| Career civil servants | the employees within the executive departments who were not appointed by the president, but hired for their position |
| Department | the section of federal bureaucracy which is closest to the President and most subject to his direct control |
| Agency | an organization of the federal bureaucracy that is independent of Presidential control and either performs a single function or regulates some aspect of society. |
| Executive agency | an agency that has a single function and reports directly to the President |
| Government corporation | a business monopoly of the federal government; a public corporation that operates a quasi-business enterprise |
| independent regulatory commissions | regulatory agencies that are a part of the executive branch of government but which operate independently of any of the executive departments. |
| statutory laws | laws created by legislatives |
| slip laws | first legal publications of statutory laws |
| regulation | the process by which an agency makes rules to enforce a law |
| U.S. Statutes-at-Large | Publication in which slip laws are bound |
| ALJ (administrative-law-judges) | a special group of judges who preside over informal, little publicized cases arising out of agency decisions |
| deficit spending | spending more money than one receives in a given period |
| deregulation | process of reducing the number of regulations |
| discretionary authority | the authority that Congress gives the agencies to make decisions regarding the public in areas that Congress has not specifically addressed |
| Federal Register | the official record of federal regulations |
| Code of Federal Regulations | a yearly publication that lists all the regulations issued that year as well as previous regulations still in effect |
| Grace Commission | Commission headed by former President Reagan to investigate federal spending, which decreased the amount of federal regulation |
| Hoover Commissions | commissions headed by former President Hoover |
| regulatory agency | an agency created by Congress to regulate various areas of American life |
| GSA (General Services Administration); NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) | Examples of executive agencies. |
| ICC (Interstate Commerce Commission); EEOC (Equal Employment Opportunity Commission) | Examples of regulatory agencies. |
| IRS (Internal Revenue Service); OSHA (Occupational Safety and Health Administration) | Examples of regulatory agencies within the executive department. |
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