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Formal power

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Informal power

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Bicameral

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Senate

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House

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Federal budget

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Oversight

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Speaker of the house

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Bill

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Committee

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Committee hearing

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A method of both houses by which committee members, gather, and analyze information, evidence, and testimony, in deliberation, over a bill prior to full chamber, debate, and vote

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Mark up

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Additions and revisions of a bill done in congressional committee

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Rules committee

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Establishes rules for debate on a bill in the house

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Committee of the whole

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A committee formed in the house to expedite debate on bills

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Discharge petition

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Bring a bill out of committee

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Unanimous consent

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Filibuster

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Cloture

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Conference committee

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Mandatory spending

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Entitlements

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Social security

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A social insurance program funded by a payroll tax on current employers, and employees to be re-distributed to qualifying individuals for retirement, disability, or survivor benefits

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Medicare

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Old people

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Medicaid

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Poor people

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Discretionary spending
Everything left behind
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Infrastructure
A set of facilities, structures, and utilities developed, owned, operated, and maintained by the federal, state, and municipal government; includes highways, roads, railroads, bridges, ports, airports, public transportation, water, and sewage systems, electrical, grids, and broadband systems
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Prom barrel
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Logrolling
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Partisan voting
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Polarization
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Gridlock
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Reapportionment
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Redistricting
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Gerrymandering
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Divided government
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Lame duck
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Trustee model
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Delegate model
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Politico model
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Policy agenda
A list of subjects or issues to which government officials will agree to consider as part of public policy making
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Cabinet
Heads of departments
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Executive office of the president
Comprises the offices and agencies that support the work and agenda of the president; consist of the White House office, national security council, and office of management and budget
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Veto
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Pocket veto
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Line item veto
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Commander in chief
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Executive agreement
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Treaty
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Bargaining and persuasion
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Executive ordee
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Signing statement
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Senste confirmation
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Confresssional agenda
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Fed 70
Strong, single, energetic executive
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22nd amendment
Term limit
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State of the union
Formal power of the president that is a nationally broadcast message for agenda, setting that uses the media to influence public views about which policies are the most important
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Bully pulpit
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Agenda setting
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Article III
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Fed 78
Independence and life tenure of justices
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Judicial review
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Precedent
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Stare decisis
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Hurisdiction
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Original jurisdiction
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Appellate jurisdiction
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Judicial activism
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Judicial restraint
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Fed bureaucracy
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Regulation
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Executive department
One of the principal units of the executive branch in administrative arms of the president; headed by a secretary, appointed by the president and confirmed by the Senate, and serve at the pleasure of the president
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Executive agency
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Independent regulatory commission
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Government corporation
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Issue network
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Irong triangle
Specific policy between congress member, agency, and interest group
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Merit system
Established by pendleton civil service ACT
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Patronage
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Discretionary power
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Rulemaking authority
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Department of homeland security
Terrorist
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Department of transportation
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Department of beterans affairs
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Department of education
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Environment protection agency
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Federal elections commission
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Securities and echange commission
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Oversight
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Power of the purse
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Compliance monitoring

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