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Week of March 23: Chapter 14: Be ready to discuss on Monday, March 30 at 11 am
Be well! I miss you!
College Board is offering review materials, starting with this 45 minute lesson on voting rights and voting behaviors
...and one on political parties
Hope you are all well and happy at home. I am not supposed to assign specific work this week, but I also don't want the people that need structure and have momentum to lose interest.
I have just gotten an update from College Board. They are adapting exams to take 45 minutes and be taken online at home. The specific schedule is not yet available.
I'd love to have google meet sessions next week and get back into Now Comment routines. Please do let me know how you are are what your schedules are like. And be well! I miss you!
Current Events:
What does this tell us about our federal government's priorities?
What does this tell us about our federal government's priorities?
Crash Course: How President's Govern
Khan Academy: Introduction
Oversight of the Bureaucracy...Legislative Branch and Presidential Powers
General Overview... 22 minutes made for APGAP
The bureaucracy carries out the responsibilities of the federal government:
writing and enforcing regulations
Issuing fines
Testifying before Congress
Iron triangles (issue networks, subgovernments)
The bureaucracy has discretionary authority for making, implementing and enforcing regulations:
Departments (ie Homeland Security)
Regulatory Agencies (ie FCC)
Government Corporations (Amtrak, PO) and Independent Agencies (NASA)
Congress checks executive branch discretion via:
Committee hearings
Power of the Purse
Presidential checks:
Administrative strategy... increasing, enlarging offices and capacity, appointments of top officials
Bully pulpit (mobilizing public opinion)
Party leadership
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