When President Clinton Ordered the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)

question 40

Multiple Choice

When President Clinton ordered the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to develop rules designed to restrict the marketing of tobacco products to children, it was an example of how
Presidents

• A)now attempt to exert influence over independent agencies within the federal government by "going public."
• B)now seek control over state government agencies as well as federal government agencies.
• C)now use the rule-making process as a quasi-legislative mechanism through which they can engage in lawmaking without the interference of the legislature.
• D)have recently used the so-called takings clause of the Fifth Amendment to achieve their policy goals without judicial approval.

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