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The heads of departments are members of the Cabinet of the United States, an executive organ that normally acts as an advisory body to the president. In the Opinion Clause (Article II, section 2, clause 1) of the U.S. Constitution, heads of executive departments are referred to as "principal Officer in each of the executive Departments".
Twenty-one positions, including the heads of the executive departments and others, receiving Level I pay are listed in 5 U.S.C. § 5312, and those forty-six positions on Level II pay (including the number two positions of the executive departments) are listed in 5 U.S.C. § 5313.
A number of people have come close to achieving this distinction, having held constitutional offices in two branches but having failed in an attempt to obtain a constitutional office in a third branch, or having held constitutional offices in two branches, and serving in a non-constitutional office in a third branch. Executive and legislative
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The Eisenhower Executive Office Building at night. In 1937, the Brownlow Committee, which was a presidentially commissioned panel of political science and public administration experts, recommended sweeping changes to the executive branch of the U.S. federal government, including the creation of the Executive Office of the President.
The executive branch is established in Article Two of the United States Constitution, which vests executive power in the president of the United States. [ 14 ] [ 15 ] The president is both the head of state (performing ceremonial functions) and the head of government (the chief executive). [ 16 ]
The Congressional Black Caucus will have 62 members in the 119th Congress, contributing to a record 67 Black representatives. ... executive director of the Rolling Sea Action Fund, said this makes ...
The United States Department of Defense (DoD, [2] USDOD, or DOD) is an executive branch department of the federal government of the United States charged with coordinating and supervising the five U.S. armed services, the Army; Navy; Marines; Air Force; Space Force; the Coast Guard for some purposes, and related functions and agencies.