POLS 3410 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Joint Committee, U District Station, Central Intelligence Agency
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Military, intelligence, law enforcement department of defence created in 1947 merged the war, navy, army and airforce central intelligence agency daily brief to president. Federal bureau of investigation federal crimes department of energy in charge of nuclear weapons loans nuclear weapons forest. 200, 000 employees prepare america for foreign or domestic threats department of interior. 2/3 vote to remove political not criminal all funding must go through congress hearings for con rmation nominations for cabinet hard to remove people from cabinet. Key people house speaker house majority and minority leaders orders bills introduces stack the main committees. 2 bigest parties in the senate large number of people working for each senator large bureaucracy allows for proper research and education on the bills to be passed. Process: representative or senate sponser, introduced to clerk public v. private bills private bills deal with speci c sector or group of people public e ect all.