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administrative agencies designed by statute to be comparatively free from presidential control

a law that creates an administrative agency and specifies its purposes and the areas in which it may act

agencies are official governmental organizations that implement congressional legislation and create rules and regulations to do so

rulemaking is a process for developing and issuing rules. The rulemaking process can lead to the issuance of a new rule, an amendment to an existing rule, or the repeal of an existing rule

a clause in the Constitution that requires the president take care to enforce all laws

a principle of constitutional and administrative law that holds that legislative bodies cannot delegate their legislative powers to executive agencies or private entities

the review, monitoring, and supervision of federal agencies, programs and policy implementation, and it provides the legislative branch with an opportunity to inspect, examine, review, and check the executive branch and its agencies

a statute that applies to all executive branch and independent agencies, ine that prescribes procedures for agency rulemaking and adjudications, as well as standards for judicial review of final agency actions

administrative agencies subject to direct presidential control

a tool used by Congress prohibiting an agency from using funds to implement a certain action

a clause in the Constitution that empowers the President to nominate and, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, to appoint the principal officers of the US, as well as some subordinate officers

with justification

the requirement that agencies submit to the OMB for review certain information that will be presented to Congress

the federal judiciary has the authority to review the constitutionality of actions of the legislative and executive branches as established in the seminal case Marbury v. Madison