Governing Departmental Agencies

Most of the specifications for the executive branch in the Constitution, other than how he is to be elected, have to deal with the interactions between Congress and the President. The president can (fill in the blank) but only if (this part) of Congress approves. The powers of the president have been interpreted widely so that he has more power than I believe the Framers intended. They wanted him to be able to check Congress with veto power and be the head of the military. However, I think that presidents nowadays have too much power. They are active in trying force their policy agenda through Congress, manage foreign relations, and act as the administrative head of the entire nation. The textbook lays it out well in, "The vast size of the executive branch and the number and complexity of decisions that must be made each day pose a challenge for the White House.” (316) In order to deal with the stresses put on the executive branch, there are thousands of employees that work to give the president the information that he needs to make decisions. He has advisors, cabinet members, legislative liaisons; the list goes on and on, but he is the person who actually gets to make all of the choices. The President is limited in some ways and given more power in other ways by the structure laid out for him in the Constitution, and evolved to be what it is now.

The Executive Branch is run by the President who is commander and chief of the Military. It "carries out federal laws." (World Book 140). It will create regulations that back up the laws that Congress passes. The branch acts as the enforcer of the Government. The executive branch is separated into fourteen departments, each handling a specific Executive business. The head of each department is appointed by the President and approved by the senate. The collection of these departments makes up the Presidential Cabinet. The purpose of the cabinet and its members is as stated,

Executive power is vested in the office of the President of the United States. The President has the dual role of being the chief of state and the head of government. The President is also commander in chief of the armed forces. He issues executive orders, and appoints Supreme Court justices (with senate approval). The president is also called "the chief legislator" because he indirectly proposes many bills, considers all bills from Congress and signs them into law or vetoes them.

That includes appointees, administrative agencies, and governor. The President has a cabinet, which people appointed by the President, that include a Vice-President and 15 other executive departments. The President cannot create legislation or encroach upon the legislative branch. The legislative branch must approve many of the President appointees (Theodore Lowi).

Regulations are a grant of power and set of directions that enforce compliance for the goals of a bureaucracy. Bureaucracies are expected to take responsibility for their actions. Legislators will oversee public administrators to make sure that everything is done correctly and to avoid any issues (Kettl, 2017, 395). When issues do arise, it is important for bureaucracies to take accountability for what happened and try to pose a solution. Two federal agencies that exist that should be consistent, accountable, and have a hierarchy of authority are the Department of Justice and the Department of Defense. Both of these agencies are highly important bureaucracies that protect and govern citizens. The Department of Justice’s function is protect the people from harm and enforce laws that prevent individuals from causing issues or harm to others. The Department of Defense’s function is to protect the United States as whole from foreign invaders, attacks, and such. Both of these agencies are tasked with protecting the people and both need to have a hierarchy of authority, consistency, and accountability.

To sum things up – when it comes to the bureaucracy, some of the controls that the president has the authority to use are: appoint and remove agency heads, reorganize the bureaucracy, make changes in budget proposals, reduce an agency's budget, ignore initiatives from the bureaucracy, and issue executive orders. Nonetheless, even with all of the powers and controls that the president possesses, taking into account the sheer magnitude and breadth of the bureaucracy, having complete control over it is not even feasible. In addition, even though the president is delegated the responsibility of managing the bureaucracy, when throwing the influences of Congress,

s the head of the federal executive, the President is in charge of the vast federal bureaucracy. With the power to appoint department and agency leadership, dismiss Cabinet officials, issue executive orders, and control the budgeting process, the President can exercise considerable control over the federal bureaucracy. At the same time, the sheer size of the bureaucracy itself often undermines the ability of the President to influence and control it. By exercising bureaucratic discretion, agencies may mitigate the problems caused by the size of the bureaucracy.

Objective of this paper is to discuss where the following agencies lie in the administrative structure of the federal government:

Reorganization and downsizing of departments is within the outer perimeters of the president’s scope of responsibility. The court maintains the president will act in good faith for reasons of re-election, prestige as a part of presidential influence, and concern for historical stature, and if all else fails and the president has so acted unlawfully the impeachment process

In this paper we will compare the formal and informal powers if the President and we will explore how and why the Presidential powers have increased over time. The history of the Presidency is an account of aggrandizement; one envisions, today, a President with far reaching power, however, when looking at the Constitution alone we find a President with significant limits. Is the President of the United States the most powerful person in the world or merely a helpless giant?

Presidential power has increased immensely over recent years and little is being done in an attempt to restore the original intent of the Constitution. There are multiple factors that affect this, including the executive orders of presidents, the Constitution giving an unequal distribution of power between the executive and legislative branch, the failure to use checks and balances, and the ineffectiveness of Congress. With the lack of congressional involvement in legislative decisions, the president has the ability to take matters in their own hands.

The bureaucracy provides necessary administrative functions, like conducting examinations, issuing permits and licenses, and collecting fees. The bureaucracy regulates various government activities. The four levels of the bureaucracy are the Executive/Cabinet departments (treasury, defense,

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Another department within the AHRQ, is the Center for Delivery, Organization and Marketing which uses research to develop the company’s leading providers of healthcare delivery, organization and marketing advancements. This branch has researchers that pinpoint the needs of developing research, managing the collection of research contracts and grants, establishing which peer-research are published and finally it creates databases and software tools used within these databases. The Center for Financing, Access and Cost Trends, manages the study of the cost, financing and access to healthcare and its services and associated trends. This branch of the AHRQ also supports policy and behavioral analysis and research by creating data sets.

Presidents, in my opinion, do not have the explicit authority to control administrative agencies and their ability to promulgate law however; I do believe they do have the ability to pressure these agencies to some extent in a favorable direction. The President’s power, for lack of a better term, is granted by the constitution, authority delegated by the Congress or expressly provided by statute. The president does have authority to appoint specific agency heads. Article II, Section 2 also provides the President with authority to appoint officers of the U.S. “by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate.” This language demonstrates the drafter’s specific intent to place checks and balances on presidential power that is consistent with the