Homework: Executive Branch Test Monday FrontPage: OL on your desk. How is the EoP different from the cabinet departments and IAs? A team from the MIT media lab has created a camera with a "shutter speed" of one trillion exposures per second -- enabling it to record light itself traveling from one point to another. Using a heavily modified Streak Tube (which is normally used to intensify photons into electron streams), the team could snap a single image of a laser as it passed through a soda bottle. The revolutionary snapper may have a fast shutter but the long time it takes to process the images have earned it the nickname of the "the world's slowest fastest camera."

Type of IALeadershipFunctionExamples Independent Executive Agency Director ; Appointed by President with Senate approval; Term ends before or with president Carry out laws; Perform functions which do not fall under a cabinet department or need to remain independent of that leadership NASA CIA Peace Corps Government Corporation Board of Directors ; Appointed by President with Senate approval; Serve staggered terms of fixed years To provide a service to the public for a profit, like a private company USPS TVA Corp. for Public Broadcasting Regulatory Commission Board of Commissioners; Appointed by President with Senate approval; Serve staggered terms of fixed years **free from oversight by Prez Make rules and govern areas of the economy and society ( nuclear energy, banking, radio/TV broadcasts ) CPSC SEC NRC FCC FEC

Chapter 8, Section 4

 Small group of advisors and offices, mostly located in the West Wing  Closest to the President; most may work with him nearly every day  Includes:  Chief of Staff  National Security Advisor  Senior Advisor  Personal Secretary  Chief White House Counsel (lawyer for Prez)  Personal Aide to the President  Press Secretary  Other aides

 EOP  Considered “staff” agencies: ▪ advise the president ▪ Provide information, advice and support  Cabinet depts, IA’s  Considered “line” agencies (on the “front lines”) ▪ carry out the laws ▪ “do the work” of executing laws of US