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The Federal Bureaucracy
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Vocabulary
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This agency carries out the country's space program.
What is NASA.
100
Twelve of the independent agencies are known as this?
What is Regulatory commission
100
The ____ is run like a private business and became an independent agency in 1971.
What is Postal Service
100
What are the duties of NASA?
What is NASA was created to help develop peaceful uses for outer space. It sends shuttles and astronauts into space to explore, to repair damaged satellites, and to perform experiments for industry and medicine. NASA is also working with other nations to build a permanent space station.
100
to be without money; unable to pay one's bills
What is bankrupt.
200
The line of authority in a bureaucracy is called this.
What is a pyramid.
200
The Federal Trade Commission enforces laws that
What is protect against price-fixing and false labeling.
200
_______was developed to help find peaceful uses for outer space.
What is NASA.
200
Which agency provides for Americans age 65 and older? What does it do for them?
What is he Social Security Administration pays money to elderly people. It also provides them with health care through a program called Medicare.
200
A gift given to provide income for a person or organization.
What is Endowment
300
Who is at the top of the pyramid?
What is the President
300
The first independent government agency was the?
What is Interstate Commerce Commission
300
The FDIC was set up to protect banks from
What is bankruptcy.
300
The __________________ makes sure that products put on the market are labeled correctly.
What is Federal Trade Commission.
300
The location on the airwaves used by a radio or TV station.
What is frequency.
400
What groups make up the lowest part of the pyramid?
What is independent agencies, commissions, boards, and administrations.
400
The NRC gives permission for what to be stored or transported for civilian use?
What is radioactive material.
400
The EPA enforces the laws ___________ passes to keep air and water clean.
What is Congress
400
What is the purpose of a regulatory commission?
What is A regulatory commission makes and enforces rules that are important to the nation’s economy.
400
An agency that enforces rules and regulations.
What is regulatory commission
500
The Executive Office of the President, the executive departments and the independent agencies make up this.
What is the federal bureaucracy.
500
Employees can file complaints and lawsuits against employers or union through the ?
What is National Labor Relations Board
500
The goal of the _________ is to bring about peace and friendship between the U.S. and other countries.
What is the Peace Corps.
500
Describe the parts that make up the federal bureaucracy.
What is The president and the Executive Office of the President are in charge of the entire bureaucracy. At the next level are the 15 executive departments. The heads of these departments make up the president’s cabinet. These departments control a large number of independent agencies at the bottom level of the bureaucracy.
500
The study of literature, history, music, and art.
What is humanities