AP U.S. Government and Politics / Unit 2: Interactions Among Branches of Government
2.14 Holding the Bureaucracy Accountable
Notes
- Congress: oversight hearings, funding (power of the purse), new laws.
- President: appointments, executive orders, budget proposals.
- Courts: ruling on agency actions.
Practice
Congressional committees holding hearings on an agency is:
Checking the bureaucracy.
Congress's strongest tool to control an agency:
Budgets.
The president influences agencies by:
Political appointees.
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