FEMA: Dependent Regulatory Bodies

Executive Office of the President is comprised of his staff. Responsible for a lot of communications, some to the American people, some to foreign nations, and some to the Executive Branch. All of the Executive Department’s heads make up The Cabinet and each Head or Secretary is in the succession of being the US President. Each department has a unique mission, such as the DoD which provides the best Military in the world or the Secretary of Commerce which oversees the national budget.

Independent Regulatory Bodies are organizations that report to the Executive Branch but work outside of the US Federal Governments departments. An example would be the Federal Emergency Management Agency. FEMA exercises a supervisory role at the local and state level to achieve some standard within its mission. While their title states independent, FEMA still works for the Executive Branch and has the Department of Justice litigate all of its cases. However, the President cannot make immediate leadership changes.

Dependent Regulatory Bodies are organizations that receive full funding from the federal government and can be immediately effected by the President’s decisions. The President usually appoints a single head of that individual agency.

However, Obama Care was introduced by the Executive Branch, because Obama won the election and his big message was health care. Congress conceded that he won so his plan should go forward. The law made its way to the Supreme Court and they decided it could be a tax. Now the IRS brings it all back to the US citizens. This is very vague, however, I think it represents the full circle of government and some perversion of it. Perversion in the law was never introduced by the House and the Supreme Court changed the law instead of reading it for what it was. But now it enabled some citizens to buy health care if they were