Agenda

1. Agenda • Journal- • Lecture- Qualifications, terms and succession • Activity- • Worksheet • Presidents Role • Vocabulary • Begin Movie “All the President’s Men”

2. Presidency

3. Formal Qualification • 35yrs old • Resident of the United State for at least 14 years • Natural -born citizen

4. Informal Qualification • Experience in Government • Money for the campaign • Political beliefs (no extremes)

5. Terms • 22nd Amendment states no president can serve more an 2 terms • Before the 22nd Amendment, Washington set the precedent of only serving 2 terms • 22nd amendment was add after Franklin Roosevelt ( served 4 terms)

6. Vice President • Two duties stated in the constitution • Presides over the Senate and votes when there is a tie • Under the 25th amendment the vice president helps decide whether the president is disabled and acts as president should that happen.

7. Succession • The 25th Amendment established the order of succession. • Vice president • Speaker of the House • President pro tempore • Cabinet members • (in order the positions where created )

8. Succession Cont. • 25th amendment- a new vice president would be nominated by the president and approved by the senate • If the VP became president

9. Salary and Benefits • receives $400,000 a year • Free mail and $96,000 a year for office help. • travel allowance of up to $100,000 • Air Force One • Receives free medicinal, dental and health care. • The White House • Receives a lifelong pension

10. Salary Benefits travel allowance of up to $100,000 Air Force One Receives free medicinal, dental and health care. The White House • receives $400,000 a year • Free mail and $96,000 a year for office help. • Receives a lifelong pension

11. Bellringer • Pick up notes from the back of the room

12. Agenda • Lecture • Worksheet • Appointing cabinet members • Exit ticket Quiz

13. Objective • 4.3 Identify departments and agencies of the bureaucracy and explain their function

14. Cabinet’s Role • Two major jobs • Administrative head of one executive department • Advisor to the president

15. The Cabinet • The cabinet is an informal advisory body brought together by the President to serve his needs. • Not mentioned in the constitution

16. Choosing Cabinet members • President appoints the Head of each Department • Senate confirms the appointment

17. Factors in appointments • Party • People who help the president in the election • Professional qualifications • Practical experience • Geography • Management abilities • Personal characteristics

18. The Executive Departments

19. Executive Departments • Much of the work of the Federal Government is done by 15 Executive Departments (The cabinet)

20. The First Cabinet Positions • The First Congress created the • Department of State • Department of Treasury • Department of War • As the size and workload as grown, Congress added new Departments

21. Secretaries and Staff • Each Department is headed by a secretary • Except for Justice • Headed by the Attorney General • Each department head serves in the president’s cabinet

22. Department Head • Each secretary serves as the link between their department and the President • Have assistant secretary serving under them who are also named by the president

23. The Federal Bureaucracy

24. Bureaucracy • A large, complex administrative structure that handles the everyday business of an organization. • Most of the Federal bureaucracy is located in the executive branch

25. Three Features of Bureaucracy • Hierarchical authority • Any organization that is built like a pyramid, with a chain of command. • Job specialization • Each person who works for the organization has a certain defined Duty and responsibility • Formalized rules • Work according to a set of established regulations and procedures

26. Bureaucrats • Are unelected public policy makers

27. Executive bureaucracy • 3 broad groups of agencies • Executive office of the president • 15 cabinet departments • Large number of independent agencies

28. The Executive Office of the President

29. Executive Office of the President (EOP) • Complex organization of several separate agencies staffed by most of the President closest advisors and assistant. • Established by Congress in 1939

30. White House Office • President’s key personal and political staff • Chief in staff • Press secretary • Counsel (legal advisor) • Physician • 400 staff work for the president

31. National Security Council • For the President to be advised on Domestic, foreign and military matters • Members • VP, Secretaries of State and Defense, Director of the CIA and Chairman of the Joint Chief of Staff.

32. Other EOP agencies • Office of Management and Budget • Office of Faith-based and community Initiatives • Office of National Drug Control Policy • Council of Economic Advisors

33. Independent Agencies

34. Independent agencies • No way to categorize what make an independent agencies • Some have large staff , some have small staffs • Some have larger budgets than departments

35. reasons • Many reason why an agency is independent • Do not fit within a department • To be protect from politics • Some by accident

36. Independent Agencies • Three main groups • independent executive agencies • the independent regulatory commissions • Government corporations

37. Independent Executive agencies • Make up most of the independent agencies • Some are organized like a department • Do not have cabinet status • Examples • NASA • Peace Corps • Federal election commission

38. Independent Regulatory Commission • Mostly beyond the Presidential direction and control • Ten total • Each regulate, or police important aspects of the Nation’s economy • Example • Federal trade Commission • National Labor relations Board

39. Government Corporations • Within the Executive Branch • Set up by Congress to carry out a certain business like activity • Example • US Postal Service • Amtrak • Tennessee Valley Authority

40. Civil Service • Those civilian employees who perform the administrative work of the government.