POS 3200
Legislative Process
Final Exam Review


Bureaucracy

• Congress' role in organizing and controlling the bureaucracy
  
• models of oversight
  
  • "police patrol" v. "fire alarm"
    
• oversight and administrative rulemaking
• legislative veto
  • INS v. Chadha (1983)

Congress and the Courts

• Confirmation process
  
  • senatorial courtesy
• Other tools of influence
  
  • Jurisdiction
  • Size

Policymaking

• Domestic
  
  • Budgeting Process
    • Authorization
    • Appropriation
    • BICA, Gramm-Rudman-Hollings, and the BEA
      • Provisions and effects
• Foreign
  
  • Role of Congress
  • War Powers Act
  • Executive Agreements v. Treaties

The Broken Branch?

• Mayhew and "The Electoral Connection"
• Possibilities/Problems of Reform
  • Centralization/Decentralization

Terms you should know:

Appropriation committees Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 budget authority Budget committees Budget Enforcement Act of 1990 budget outlays Case-Zablocki Act of 1972 Clinton v. New York (1998) concurrent budget resolution continuing resolution fire alarm

Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act Gulf of Tonkin Resolution INS v. Chadha (1983) legislative veto PAYGO police patrol recission reconciliation senatorial courtesy sequestration War Powers Act of 1973

One of the following essay questions will appear on the exam. Since the question will be selected at random, it would be wise for you to be prepared to answer any one of them.

1. Describe the budgeting process. How are the budgets drawn up and who are the key players? How has the budgeting process evolved over the last 3 decades, and why?
   
   
2. Discuss Congress' relationship with the Courts.  What tools does Congress have in influencing the Court?  What are the limits of Congress' control over the judiciary?
   
   
3. In the section of the syllabus dealing with the bureaucracy, it is described as "the pawn in the conflict" between Congress and the President. What does this mean? How does each institution attempt to wield influence over the bureaucracy, and what difficulties do they face?
   

The Final will also have a second essay for you to write. This essay will cover the "Two Congresses" idea and how the "Two Congresses" interact with each other.