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- To whom/what is the bureaucracy responsible
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- President
- Congress
- Courts
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- Size of the Federal Bureaucracy
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- 1.9 million civilians
- 1.5 million military
- 850,000 postal workers
- Other possible “federal” workers
- 5.6 million contractors
- 2.4 million federal grants
- 4.6 million state/local carrying out mandates
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| In politics and government, a spoils system (also known as a patronage system) is a practice in which a political party, after winning an election, gives government civil service jobs to its supporters, friends and relatives as a reward for working toward victory |
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| The merit system is the process of promoting and hiring government employees based on their ability to perform a job, rather than on their political connections. It is the opposite of the spoils system. |
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| includes jobs from: math, engineering, science, social science, technology,finance,business, medical. |
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Office of Management and Budget |
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Specifically, OMB’s mission is to assist the President in meeting his policy, budget, management and regulatory objectives and to fulfill the agency’s statutory responsibilities.
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| The Cabinet of the United States is composed of the most senior appointed officers of the executive branch of the government serving under the President. Among those are the Vice President and the heads of the federal executive departments, all of whom are by federal law (3 U.S.C. § 19) in the line of succession to the presidency and have duties under the 25th Amendment to the Constitution. |
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| General services administration |
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| independent regulatory commissions |
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| united states consumer product safety commission |
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| United states postal service |
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- Dr. Margaret Hamburg - FDA
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| The collection or sequence of forms and procedures required to gain bureaucraticapproval for something, especially when oppressively complex and time-consuming. |
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