Government Acronyms by Eli
Across
- 2. Oversees about 300 different programs
- 3. Builds roads,briges,rail lines, and airports
- 4. Insures some mortgages that private banks make to homeowners
- 6. Certifies the quality of foods and cosmetics sold in America
- 7. Establishes rules for air traffic
- 9. An organization that tracks down criminals on a global scale
- 10. Handles programs for veterans
- 11. Collects statistics on diseases and formulate policies for reducing disease
- 13. Gives the office cabinet status
- 15. A seven-member panel has the job of overseeing the practices of railroads
- 18. Issues weather forecast and disseminates weather data that it gathers from satellites
- 20. Awards almost 50,000 competitive grants
- 22. Separated from the executive branch
Down
- 1. Began in 1862 as non cabinet-level agency of federal government
- 4. pools together mortgage loans and sells large packages to investors
- 5. Mission is to encourage homeownership
- 6. Insures the deposits that people have in banks
- 7. Makes profit by charging a fee to the investors who buy the Loan packages
- 8. Leads the federal government's response to natural disasters
- 12. Created in 1947 by Congress and the Navy Department
- 14. Created after the stock market crash
- 16. Gathers intelligents for the government's security
- 17. Also makes profit by charging a fee to the investors who buy the Loan packages
- 19. Protecting the oil reserves in Alaska
- 21. Replaced the Federal Security Agency in 1953