Outline the budget process.
What will be an ideal response?
• Agencies submit budgets to President’s Office of Management and Budget
• President submits budget request to Congress
• House and Senate Budget committees review requests, form budget resolutions that must pass on each floor
• Congress committee produces one version
• 12 House and 12 Senate appropriations subcommittees conduct hearings and pass bills on their discretionary spending areas
• House and Senate appropriations committees mark up bills, vote, then chambers pass it
• Conference committee produces one version
• President signs or vetoes conference report
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Which do you think make presidents more effective:
their formal powers, or their informal powers? Be sure to cite specific presidential powers to support your argument. Include a conclusion that summarizes your argument. What will be an ideal response?
___ Governments and government agencies engage in lobbying
Indicate whether this statement is true or false.
Democrat Andrew Jackson won the presidency in 1828 in
A) an election in which the House of Representatives decided the winner. B) the first mass election in U.S. history. C) an election in which the Senate decided the winner. D) an election during which the parties neglected their function of nominating candidates and he ran unopposed. E) ?the last election against the Federalists.
The mercantilists promoted the idea that a public interest existed separately from individual people. which of the following ideas does this contradict?
A) Rational choice B) Unlimited desires C) Scarcity D) Methodological individualism