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A) conditional party government
B) growing use of the filibuster
C) unified government
D) divided government
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A) notice in the Federal Register
B) majority approval in the House
C) public comment period
D) cost-benefit analysis
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The public as watchdog is the idea that lawmakers along with civic-minded individuals and new technological developments can empower ordinary citizens to become government watchdogs. For example, citizens can monitor which projects are receiving federal dollars online. These developments may lessen the oversight burden on Congress by providing a broader-based "police patrol" outside of Congress.
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A) set the salaries of government employees
B) limited the number of political appointees in each agency
C) restricted the partisan activities of federal employees
D) ended the spoils system and replaced it with the merit system
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A) requiring regular reports from agencies and reading them carefully to discover violations
B) using casework as a form of oversight
C) responding to an investigative report in the New York Times with congressional hearings
D) using a complaint from the National Rifle Association to springboard an investigation into a federal agency
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Students could address a variety of issues, including the following: unified government may dampen oversight; committees may develop friendly alliances with or biases toward the agencies they authorize, fund, and oversee; the fact that many oversight tools (such as appropriations or new statutes) are blunt tools; and difficulties with assessing when an agency is failing to follow the law.
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The patronage system was the practice of handing out federal jobs to the supporters of the party that had won the presidency. The modern equivalent is political appointees, wherein the president can select whomever he or she chooses for certain administrative jobs and will often award these to supporters. However, the scope of political appointments is smaller than the patronage system. That said, the selection of employees on a basis other than merit can create problems if these individuals are not competent to perform the job.
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A) a think-tank focused on government accountability
B) an office within the executive branch that investigates fraud
C) the office that helps Congress write a budget each year
D) Congress's chief investigative agency
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A) the president
B) inspectors general
C) Supreme Court
D) attorney general
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