AS.190.101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Branch President, Fireside Chats, Enumerated Powers
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Politicians find it convenient to delegate details to bureaucratic agents. Congress exercises oversight through either fire-alarm oversight (waiting till major crisis erupts and investigates) or police patrol which is routine checks that are less popular today. All communications and decisions that related to executive policy decisions must pass through the white house: to cope with such a flow, white house must have adequate staff and specialists 3. They must have an additional staff to follow through with presidential decisions. Since then, management of authority of the president grew under both political parties. Clientele agencies: departments of government whose mission is to promote, serve or present a particular interest such as the department of agriculture. Agencies for the maintenance of the union: agencies for managing the sources of budget revenue, such as the irs, agencies for internal securities such as in the department of justice, and agencies for. American security from external threats such as the state department.
