Author Question: While presidents don't have direct control over regulatory commissions, they can strongly influence ... (Read 69 times)

kamilo84 · **on:** Sep 3, 2018

While presidents don't have direct control over regulatory commissions, they can strongly influence their direction through

A) putting strings on their budget.
B) pre-allocating their budgets.
C) their appointments of new commissioners.
D) congressional oversight committees.
E) executive orders.

Question 2

Regulatory commissions are usually run with an odd number of commissioners

A) to facilitate rotation in office.
B) to prevent tie votes.
C) by longstanding tradition dating back to the Middle Ages.
D) to prevent any area of the country from being overrepresented.
E) after the passage of the 1961 Bureaucratic Improvement Act.