Federal Bureaucracy #3

The Commerce Department deals with which of the following topics?

• A. 

  business

• B. 

  workers

• C. 

  medicine

• D. 

  housing

The Labor Department deals with which of the following topics?

• A. 

  business

• B. 

  workers

• C. 

  medicine

• D. 

  housing

HUD deals with which of the following topics?

• A. 

  business

• B. 

  workers

• C. 

  medicine

• D. 

  housing

If you lived during George Washington's presidency and wanted to talk to someone in his first Cabinet about someone putting your face on the $1 bill, who would you ask to speak with?

• A. 

  Thomas Jefferson as Secretary of State

• B. 

  Henry Knox as Secretary of War

• C. 

  Edmund Randolph as Attorney General

• D. 

  Alexander Hamilton as Secretary of the Treasury

Which example BEST demonstrates the influence of a President on Executive branch agencies?

• A. 

  George W. Bush encouraged the Department of Education to support the "No Child Left Behind Act."

• B. 

  Harry S. Truman ratified the United Nations charter and made the United States the first member.

• C. 

  Theodore Roosevelt held a national conference of state governors to help preserve natural resources.

• D. 

  Barack Obama supported military alliance with Israel and reestablished a "Joint Political Military Group" with that country.