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This category is for boards, commissions and committees that do not fall under the jurisdiction any one of the three main branches of the United States federal government. For investigative commissions, or commissions convened in a conference or investigative formats, rather than as a formal ongoing agency, please see Category:United States ...
The Export–Import Bank of the United States (EXIM) is the official export credit agency (ECA) of the United States federal government. Operating as a wholly owned federal government corporation, the bank "assists in financing and facilitating U.S. exports of goods and services", particularly when private sector lenders are unable or unwilling ...
This is a category for official U.S. government; i.e., commissions, councils, conferences, etc., which are convened in a conference format or investigative format.
The numbers are based upon the sortable list below, which includes further details and references. Note that the holders of certain official positions have been referred to as "czars" for only part of the time those positions have existed. For example, there has been an Assistant Secretary of Labor for Mine Safety and Health since the passage of the Mine Safety and Health Act of 1977, but the ...
Also called the Blue Dog Democrats or simply the Blue Dogs. A caucus in the United States House of Representatives comprising members of the Democratic Party who identify as centrists or conservatives and profess an independence from the leadership of both major parties. The caucus is the modern development of a more informal grouping of relatively conservative Democrats in U.S. Congress ...
Encyclopedia of the United States Cabinet (Santa Barbara, California: ABC-CLIO; three volumes, 2000; reprint, New York: Greyhouse Publishing; two volumes, 2010). A history of the United States and Confederate States Cabinets, their secretaries, and their departments. Rudalevige, Andrew. "The President and the Cabinet", in Michael Nelson, ed.,
The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, commonly known as the Federal Reserve Board, is the main governing body of the Federal Reserve System. It is charged with overseeing the Federal Reserve Banks and with helping implement the monetary policy of the United States .
U.S. President's Commission on CIA activities within the United States – a.k.a. Rockefeller Commission (1975) President's Advisory Board on International Investment (1977) Presidential Advisory Board on Ambassadorial Appointments (1977) President's Commission on Mental Health (1977) President's Commission on Military Compensation (1977)