Bureaucrats’ most important political relationship is usually with Congress, for which of the following reasons?

a. There is no agency slack in the principal–agent relationship.
b. Congressional committees appoint the heads of administrative agencies.
c. It controls the organization, authority, budgets, and staffing of agencies.
d. The executive branch delegated all authority for the bureaucracy to Congress in the 1920s.

c. It controls the organization, authority, budgets, and staffing of agencies.

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Both AIDS testing and urine testing of government employees are associated with ______.

a. the right to privacy b. political activity c. the Hatch Act d. collective bargaining

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