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Questions

1. What is the best way of controlling the bureaucracy before-the-fact?

Carefully crafting legislation to control the scope of bureaucracy

Appointing agency heads who have a limited scope of what government should do

Underfunding agencies so that they cannot achieve their goals

Electing Republican legislators who want small government

2. What is a common synonym for after-the-fact controls?

Funding

Authorization

Oversight

Reorganization

3. Which Congressional agency is responsible for investigating bureaucracies to see how they are spending their money?

The Congressional Budget Office

The Executive Office of the President

The Internal Revenue Service

The Government Accountability Office (formerly the General Accounting Office)

4. Congressional funding authority over bureaucracy largely originates from

Executive Orders empowering Congress to control the number of bureaucrats.

the appropriations process.

Bureaucracies can propose their own funding levels but cannot enforce them.

Bureaucracies must be reauthorized every few years.

5. Reorganizing the bureaucracy such that a department or agency is eliminated is often called

killing the beast.

eliminating red tape.

termination.

death by papercuts.