Government Acronyms
Across
- 1. Encourages home ownership
- 5. Insures deposits that people have in banks.
- 6. Oversee national transportation systems.
- 7. Provides assistance, information, and loans to the nations small businesses.
- 8. Establish rules in air traffic.
- 9. Their headquarters is the Pentagon.
- 11. A 7 member panel and have the job of overseeing practices of railroads.
- 13. Award almost 50,000 grants to researchers at universities and medical schools.
- 15. They are the highest ranking members of the U.S. military.
- 17. Protects and releases oil reserves in Alaska.
- 19. Regulate communications by radio, cable, wire, satellite and television.
- 20. Coordinate and regulate the network of Farm Credit Associations throughout the country.
Down
- 2. Oversees missions with specific geographic areas of the world.
- 3. Non-cabinet level agency that oversees our country's first industry agriculture.
- 4. Tracks down criminals on a worldwide basis.
- 5. Certify the quality of food, cosmetics, and approved prescription drugs.
- 7. Insure that financial security dealers sell stocks and bonds in an open and honest manner.
- 8. Investigates threats of terrorism, and foreign intrigue against the country.
- 9. Unified with 22 other agencies and analyze intelligence regarding potential terrorist attacks.
- 10. They conduct legal business of the U.S. government.
- 11. The Treasury Department that oversees and collects taxes.
- 12. Coordinate the intelligence-gathering work of the government.
- 13. Preserve important documents and records created by the federal government since it's founding.
- 14. Oversees over 300 different programs.
- 16. They care about the public health and diseases.
- 18. Organize a national space exploration program.
- 19. Insure some of the mortgages that private banks give to homeowners.