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- 4. An organization that works to ensure the health and safety of Americans in the workforce. It sets out guidelines for workplace safety measures. These include ensuring that working environments aren’t hazardous, that workers in certain fields have the protective gear they need, and that jobsite equipment meets agency safety codes.
- 5. Develops and enforces regulations to protect the natural environment. This includes working to ensure that all Americans have clean air and water. It also tries to reduce environmental risks by making sure that contaminated lands are cleaned up.
- 6. In charge of preventing unfair trade practices within the United States. It regulates advertising, marketing, and consumer credit practices to protect the American people from being scammed.
- 7. To have a lot of power and influence in the world of politics.
- 9. Occupies a seat in the president’s cabinet as head of the nation’s chief intelligence-gathering body.
- 12. In this case, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously that school segregation is unconstitutional.
- 13. The physical foundation created for the benefit of a country’s citizens, such as roads, buildings, and waterworks
- 16. The most important member of the president’s cabinet, since he or she is next in line to the presidency if something happens to the president.
- 18. A form of government in which power is distributed between the central government and the states
- 19. Commissions These commissions set standards for businesses and industries to protect the health, safety, and general interests of the public. They also oversee and enforce these standards.
- 20. Chief lawyer of the federal government and head of the US Department of Justice, and the chief legal advisor to the president.
- 21. Interact with the public to provide goods and services. They charge fees for these goods and services.
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- 1. Involves laws and regulations within the borders of the United States.
- 2. An official command given by the US president
- 3. The most powerful department because the role of each department head is to advise the president directly.
- 8. As both advisor to the president and manager and supervisor of the president’s administration.
- 10. A group of advisers to the president.
- 11. “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”
- 14. Oversees programs to protect public health by monitoring the safety and effectiveness of drugs for people and animals; it also regulates biological products, such as blood donations, and medical devices, such as respirators and personal protective equipment.
- 15. Made up of unelected people who work to help the executive branch and Congress perform their tasks.
- 17. An organization of like-minded people who work toward the resolution of or bring attention to a specific issue.