Executive Brach
Terms
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- Transportation (cabinet member;) Example:
- Highway and Railroad administrations
- Order of Succession #5
- Secretary of State
- Total Terms
- 2 by Amendment 22
- Health & Human Services (cabinet member;) Example:
- Food & Drug Administration
- President Term
- 4 years
- Order of Succession #1
- President
- Veterans Affairs (cabinet member;) Example:
- Veterans Health Administration
- Order of Succession #4
- President Pro-Tempore
- Commerce (cabinet member;) Example:
- Naional Oceanic and Atmosperic
- Justice (cabinet member;) Example:
- FBI
- Housing and Urban Development (cabinet member;) Example:
- Government National Mortgage Association
- President Qualifications
- 35 years old, natural born citizen, resident of the USA for 14 years.
- Energy (cabinet member;) Example:
- Office of Nuclear Energy
- The President's Cabinet (def.)
- To advise the president.
- Defense (cabinet member;) Example:
- Army, Navy, Air Force
- Duties/Powers (President)
- 1. Sign/veto bills 2. Negotiate treaties 3. Appoint members of cabinet, judges of federal courts 4. Grant pardons 5. Call Congress into speacial session 6. Report to Congress the state of the union 7. Commander in cheif of the armed forces.
- Education (cabinet member;) Example:
- All areas Public Eduction
- Order of Succession #2
- Vice President
- Order of Succession #6
- Various Cabinet Member
- Agriculture (cabinet member;) Example:
- Forest Service
- Interior (cabinet member;) Example:
- National Parks
- Treasury (cabinet member;) Example:
- US secret service
- Labor (cabinet member;) Example:
- Occupational Health and Saftey Adminstration
- Order of Succession #3
- Speaker of the House
- Duties/Powers (Vice President)
- 1. Act as presiding officer of Senate 2.Cast a vote if there is a tie in the Senate 3. Take over president if they cannot fulfil their duties.
- State (cabinet member;) Example:
- Forgein Service and all Ambassadors