Congressional checks on federal bureaucracies include all of the following powers EXCEPT for the ability to

A. veto certain bureaucratic interpretations of a given law.
B. conduct investigations into an agency's performance.
C. appoint and fire agency heads.
D. cut an agency's budget.
E. add sunset provisions to laws.


Answer: C

Political Science

You might also like to view...

With the exception of Chechnya and regions in the north Caucasus region, separatism never truly threatened the unity of the Russian state, and ethnicity,

while socially important, has been a relatively unimportant form of political identity in most of Russia. How has Russia been able to achieve this successful de-mobilization of ethnicity? What will be an ideal response?

Political Science

________ are the largest source of nontax revenue in Texas

Fill in the blank with the appropriate word.

Political Science

The sociologist __________ argued that American democracy is dominated by a small "power elite."

A. C. Wright Mills B. Karl Marx C. David B. Truman D. Max Weber E. Samuel P. Huntington

Political Science

The federal income tax is

a. a retrograde tax. b. an excise tax. c. a progressive tax. d. a regressive tax.

Political Science