Federal Employment 1816-1998

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Federal Employment 1816-1998

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Per Capita Federal Employment and Budget
1816-1998

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Employment by Level of Government1925-1995

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Growth in Federal Regulations

ReaganPresidency
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Subgovernments / Iron Triangles

Money and authority
Congressional Committee
BureaucraticAgency
Services for MCs constituents
Favorable implementation of laws
(provideservices)
and votes
Favorable laws
Favorable feedbackto congressional oversight
committee
Clientele(usually political interest groups)
Everybodys happy!!
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Independent Regulatory Commissions at Work
Federal regulators in the US have fined the CBS
TV network a record 550,000 for pop star Janet
Jackson's "wardrobe malfunction" in February.
The singer exposed her right breast during a
dance routine with Justin Timberlake at this
year's Super Bowl. Now the FCC (Federal
Communications Commission) has fined 20 CBS-owned
TV stations the maximum penalty for indecency -
27,500 - each. RETURN
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Franklin Roosevelts thoughts on presidential
leadership of the bureaucracy

• The Treasury is so large and far-flung and
  ingrained in its practices that I find it almost
  impossible to get the reaction and results I
  want. . . But the Treasury is not to be compared
  with the State Department. You should go through
  the experience of trying to get any changes in
  the thinking, policy, and action of the career
  diplomats and then youd know what a real problem
  was. But the Treasury and the State Department
  put together are nothing compared to the Na-a-vy.
  The Na-a-vy is like punching a feather bed. You
  punch it with your right and you punch it with
  your left until you are finally exhausted, and
  then you find the damn bed just as it was before
  you started punching
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Competing Agencies
Our economy has fundamentally changedas has the
worldbut our government, our agencies, have
not.  The needs of our citizens have
fundamentally changed but their government has
not.  Instead, it's often grown more complicated
and sometimes more confusing.   Give you a few
examples.  There are five different entities
dealing with housing.  There are more than a
dozen agencies dealing with food safety.  My
favorite example as it turns out, the Interior
Department is in charge of salmon in fresh water,
but the Commerce Department handles them in
saltwater.  If youre wondering what the genesis
of this was, apparently, it had something to do
with President Nixon being unhappy with his
Interior Secretary for criticizing him about the
Vietnam War.  And so he decided not to put NOAA
in what would have been a more sensible
place. --President Obama, January, 2012 RETURN