Ways the President Checks Congress

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Ways the President Checks Congress

• The Veto
• legislation
• budget -- line item?
• Going public
• Agenda setting
• Working with the leadership
• Promoting bureaucratic power

2
Ways the President Checks the Bureaucracy

• Appointments
• Budgets
• Monitoring of rule making
• Reorganization
• Providing guidelines for agency action
• Proposing statutory changes
• Personal intervention

3
Ways the President Checks the Judiciary

• Appointments
• Amicus curiae briefs
• Solicitor General Arguments
• Decisions about whether to intervene in
  individual cases

4
Ways the Congress Checks the President

• Impeachment
• Override Veto
• Attempt to Seize agenda - Newt and the K with
  America
• Go public
• Refuse to bring presidential bills to the floor
• Oversight hearings

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Ways the Congress Checks the Bureaucracy

• Oversight hearings
• Budgets
• Changes in Statutory language
• Informal contacts
• Appointments -- Senate only

6
Ways the Congress Checks the Judiciary

• Appointments -- Senate only
• Change laws -- statutory interpretation cases
  only
• Change composition of the Judiciary
• Go public

7
How the Judiciary Checks Anyone Else

• Judicial Review -- Declaring actions to be
  unconstitutional
• Expanding of Access to the Courts