Talk:United States federal executive departments

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The source material for most of the original article is:

 fpc.state.gov/documents/organization/13385.pdf
 Order Code RL31493
 Report for Congress
 Received through the CRS Web
 Homeland Security: Department Organization and Management
 Updated August 7, 2002
 Harold C. Relyea
 Specialist in American National Government
 Government and Finance Division

The CRS is the Congressional Research Service. The document contains a rather good summary of the creation of executive departments in the past and may be good source material for other US executive department articles.

Daniel Quinlan 07:50 21 Jul 2003 (UTC)

[edit] Independent and subordinate agencies

Cut from article:

While most federal agencies are within one of the executive departments, a few agencies, such as the Environmental Protection Agency, are not part of any the departments. Other departments, such as the United States Department of the Army, are not departments in same sense as the departments discussed in this article; these other departments are lower in the organizational hierarchy of the executive branch.

Can someone clarify who controls "independent" agencies like EPA and GAO and the Peace Corps?

Also, if a "department" is really a sub-department, we should not say something vague like not departments in same sense but just call them "sub-departments". --Uncle Ed 16:34, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Budgets

Can someone find a newer source for department budgets? 2004 data seems a bit stale. CRGreathouse (t | c) 01:15, 1 November 2007 (UTC)