Ch. 7 Review

     accomplishes a set task.

   operates under a set of rules and procedures.

    provides goods and services for the public.

     a cabinet-level department head.

    drafting a complete budget for the president to submit to Congress

   advising congressional committees on appropriations bills

drafting a budget for Congresss to submit to the president

    helping work out compromises between the president and Congress

    The federal bureaucracy remained inexperienced and inefficient.

  Presidentslacked the power to appoint qualified people.

Political appointees always rewarded an administration’s supporters with contracts

The federal bureacracy remained efficient and effective.

    The line up of executive departments has remained unchanged since World War II.

     Leaders of the executive departments work their way up through the civil service.

     Executive departments often contain smaller agencies focused on specific tasks.

Executive departmentsemploy all of the people working for the executive branch

  created by Congress as part of the legislative branch

     underan executive department but with separate and autonomous leadership

    under the executive branch but not part of an executive department

    independentof both the executive and legislative branches

    regulating legislative responsibility

   setting and enforcing rules to regulate some aspect of the economy

    providing independent judicial review for all controversial regulations

     administeringgovernment finances in a particular area

    to provide competition for monopoly enterprises

     to make a profit and add to the government’s revenues

     to regulate private enterprise for the good of the public

to perform a function that private enterprise is unlikely to provide