Navy- to provide and maintain a navy
post office- to establish post offices and post roads
credit- to borrow money from the U.S. national banks
federal courts- to constitute tribunals inferior to the supreme court
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yes the congress have the power of approval
His book influenced Congress into believing in the power in America's naval power
== == The Congress. Art. I, sec 1 of the Constitution.
The "power of the purse" ---congress can withhold funds from any sector of the bureaucracy which is why the agencies try so hard to influence Congress. In fact, Congress has the power to abolish government agencies and department and eliminate jobs filled by bureaucrats. ( They don't because government workers are also voters and campaigners and there as now so many of them that they can swing elections. Congressmen want to keep their jobs as much as the bureaucrats want to keep theirs. )
The currency power is one of the powers given to Congress in the United States government. Congress has the power to coin money and authorizes the Treasury to print a standard form of currency.