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Federal Agency Directory, online database maintained by the Louisiana State University Libraries in partnership with the Federal Depository Library Program of the GPO A–Z Index of US Departments and Agencies , USA.gov, the US government's official web portal.
Independent agencies exist outside the federal executive departments (those headed by a Cabinet secretary) and the Executive Office of the President. [1]: 6 There is a further distinction between independent executive agencies and independent regulatory agencies, which have been assigned rulemaking responsibilities or authorities by Congress.
This category includes all agencies of the United States federal government. For all agencies within the United States, including non-federal agencies, see Category:Government agencies in the United States
United States Environmental Protection Agency (4 C, 87 P) Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (1 C, 13 P) Export–Import Bank of the United States people (14 P)
Regulatory agencies deal in the areas of administrative law, regulatory law, secondary legislation, and rulemaking (codifying and enforcing rules and regulations, and imposing supervision or oversight for the benefit of the public at large). The existence of independent regulatory agencies is justified by the complexity of certain regulatory ...
Staffing at the regulatory agencies surpassed 288,000 in 2021, up 6.5 percent since 2010. ... the total economic cost of federal regulations (not counting state and local rules) ...
In the United States, state governments are institutional units exercising functions of government at a level below that of the federal government. Each U.S. state 's government holds legislative, executive, and judicial authority over [ 1 ] a defined geographic territory.