1. Ch. 12 Vocabulary Review The Presidency

2. Office of Management and Budget
Director of OMB – Mick Mulvaney
An office that prepares the president’s budget and also advises presidents on proposals from departments and agencies and helps review their proposed regulations.
Office of Management
and Budget

3. The constitutional power of the president to send a bill back to Congress with reasons for rejecting it. A two-thirds vote in each house will override this action.
Veto

4. Law passed in 1973 in reaction to American fighting in Cambodia, that requires presidents to consult with Congress whenever possible prior to using military force and to withdraw forces after 60 days unless Congress declares war or grants an extension. However, president’s have viewed this law as unconstitutional.
War Powers Resolution

5. A group of presidential advisors not mentioned in the Constitution, although every president had one. Today it is composed of 14 secretaries, the Attorney General, and others designated by the President.
Cabinet
Now Kelly is
White House
Chief of Staff
Sonny Perdue
Agriculture
Alex Acosta
Labor
Elaine Duke Acting Director of Homeland Security

6. Ed Hargan
Acting Secretary
of Health & Human
Services
Ryan Zinke
Interior
David Shulkin
Veteran’s Affairs

7. President Donald Trumps’s Cabinet in order of Succession to the President Vice President of the United States Mike Pence Department of State Secretary Rex Tillerson Department of the Treasury Secretary Stephen Mnuchin Department of Defense Secretary James Mattis Department of Justice Attorney General Jeff Session Department of the Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke Department of Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue Department of Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross Department of Labor Secretary Alex Acosta Department of Health and Human Services Acting Director Eric Hargan Department of Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson Department of Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao Department of Energy Secretary Rick Perry Department of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos Department of Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin Department of Homeland Security Acting Director Elaine Duke The following positions have the status of Cabinet-rank: White House Chief of Staff John Kelly CIA Mike Pompeo Environmental Protection Agency Scott Pruitt Director of National Intelligence: Dan Coats Office of Management & Budget Mick Mulvaney United States Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer United States Mission to the United Nations Ambassador Niki Haley Council of Economic Advisers Kevin Hassett Small Business Administration Administrator Linda McMahon

8. The political equivalent of an indictment in criminal law, prescribed by the Constitution. The House of Representative may do this to the President by a simple majority vote for “Treason or other High Crimes and Misdemeanors.” Impeachment simply charges the President with a crime and then a trial must occur. It doesn’t remove the President from office. The trial occurs in the Senate and requires a 2/3rds vote to convict and remove a President.
Impeachment

9. National Security Council
The committee that links the president’s foreign and military policy advisors. Its formal members are the president, vice-president, secretary of state, secretary of defense, and it is managed by the president’s national security assistant.
National Security Council

10. National Security Council Members
Structure of the United States National Security Council[9]
Chair
President
Statutory Attendees[10]
Vice President Secretary of State Secretary of Defense Secretary of Energy
Military Adviser
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (Removed of permanent status on the Principals Committee on January 28, 2017.)[11]
Intelligence Adviser
Director of National Intelligence (Removed of permanent status on the Principals Committee as of January 28, 2017.)[11]
Drug Policy Adviser
Director of National Drug Control Policy
Regular Attendees
National Security Advisor Deputy National Security Adviser Attorney General White House Chief of Staff White House Chief Strategist (Added on January 28, 2017.)
Additional Participants
Secretary of the Treasury Secretary of Homeland Security White House Counsel Assistant to the President for Economic Policy Ambassador to the United Nations Director of Office of Management and Budget Homeland Security Adviser[11]

11. Council of Economic Advisors
A three-member body appointed by the president to advise the president on economic policy.
Council of Economic
Advisors

12. The events and scandal surrounding a break-in at the Democratic National Headquarters in 1972 and subsequent cover-up of White House involvement, leading to the eventual resignation of President Richard Nixon under the threat of impeachment.
Watergate

13. This amendment provides for
succession of the Vice-President
and the President if he is disabled.

14. 25th Amendment

15. A sudden, unpredictable and potentially dangerous event requiring the president to play the role of manager of this situation.
Crisis Manager

16. A vote in Congress to override a presidential decision
A vote in Congress to override a presidential decision. It takes 2/3rds yes vote in both the Senate and House of Representatives to override a Presidential Veto.
Legislative Veto

17. Presidential Coattails
These occur when voters cast their ballots for congressional candidates of the president’s party because they support the president. Research shows that few races are won this way.
Presidential Coattails

18. Regulations originating with the branch of government controlled by the president. They are one method presidents can use to control the bureaucracy.
Executive Orders

19. Which amendment to the
Constitution placed a two-term
limit on the presidency?

20. Twenty-Second Amendment.

21. The rejection of a bill by the president occurring when Congress adjourns within 10 days of sending a bill to the president and the president simply lets the bill die by neither signing or vetoing it. However, if a President doesn’t sign a bill within 10 days and Congress has not adjourned, the bill becomes a law.
Pocket Veto