Holding the Bureaucracy Accountable; Achieving Administration Goals 🔎

🎯 Learning Targets

• Explain how Congress uses its oversight power in its relationship with the executive branch
• Explain how the president ensures that executive branch agencies and departments carry out their responsibilities in concern with the goals of the administration
• Explain the extent to which governmental branches can hold the bureaucracy accountable given the competing interests of Congress, the president, and the federal courts

⏰ What We Did

• Collected "Bureaucracy Superheroes" projects from before Spring Break
• Took notes on congressional oversight of the bureaucracy, executive authorization, and ideological influences shaping how the bureaucracy carries out the administration's goals, in addition to examining the challenges of compliance monitoring and the system of checks and balances that constrain bureaucratic power

⚙️ Resources

• 2.15 Holding the Bureaucracy Accountable, Achieving Administration Goals