1. FEDERAL BUREAUCRACY
What does it do?

2. BUREAUCRACY
A Complex system of government with many, departments, rules, and people in a chain of command.
This includes the President’s cabinet, regulatory agencies, and other independent agencies.

4. The Federal Bureaucracy carries out programs of Congress in 3 ways:
1. They put new laws into effect
Ex-Law is passed to create a new national park. It would be implemented by the Dept of Interior.

5. Ex-Post Office deliver mail and IRS collect taxes
The Federal Bureaucracy carries out the many programs of Congress in 3 ways:
2. Administer day-to day operations of the government
Ex-Post Office deliver mail and IRS collect taxes

6. Ex-FAA regulates air travel, FDA regulates food safety.
The Federal Bureaucracy carries out the many programs of Congress in 3 ways:
. Regulate various industries and businesses
Ex-FAA regulates air travel, FDA regulates food safety.

7. What is the President’s Cabinet?
Definition: a group of presidential advisors that include the head of the 15 top-level executive departments.
(Part of the bureaucracy)

9. Who is on the cabinet?
Heads of depts are called secretaries
Dept of Justice is called Attorney General
Appointed by the President with Senate approval
The Vice President, chief of staff, press secretary, and other officials often join

11. How did the Cabinet get its start?
Article II states:
[The President] may require the Opinion, in writing, of the principal Officer in each of the executive Departments, upon any subject relating to the Duties of their respective Offices.
No specific details about departments or how they are structured. -

12. How did the Cabinet get its start?
George Washington created first depts
1st cabinet: three departments
State – Thomas Jefferson
War (now defense) – Henry Knox
Treasury Alexander Hamilton
The cabinet has developed out of usage and tradition

13. What are the Duties and when do they meet?
Advise the president about problems surrounding their department
Meetings
Meet whenever the president wants
PRESIDENT DOESN’T HAVE TO LISTEN TO THE CABINET!!!

14. INDEPENDENT AGENCIES
Not part of the cabinet, President gets to appoint directors, with Senate approval.
The executive branch has 100’s of independent agencies
Three kinds:
Regulatory agencies
Government Corporations
Executive Agencies