1. Research federal agencies and explain which one you feel
is the most important one and why?
I researched the National Security Council. The NSC is the
President’s principal forum for considering national security and foreign
policy matters with his senior national security advisors and cabinet
officials. The function of the council is to advise and assist the President on
national security and foreign policies. The NSC is chaired by the President and
attended regularly by the Vice President, Secretary of State, Secretary of Treasury,
Secretary of Defense, and the Assistant to the President for National Security
Affairs. Other federal officials such as the Attorney General are invited to
attend when the meetings pertain to their responsibilities. This agency is important
because it is necessary for our government to do all it can to keep its
citizens safe while promoting good relationships with foreign countries.
2. Which federal agency could be terminated with the least
impact (if any) and why?
After researching the Federal Mediation and Conciliation
Service, I believe it would have little impact if it was terminated. The FMCS
was created in 1947 and is an independent agency whose mission is to preserve
and promote labor-management peace and cooperation. It proves mediation and
conflict resolution serves to industry, government agencies, and communities.
It concentrates its efforts on assisting employers and employees in coping with
the demands of a rapidly changing workplace. I believe these issues could be
solved on a closer and more local level, without having to contact federal
agencies while helping to reduce government spending and tax dollars at the
same time.
3. Are any new agencies needed? In other words, if you were president would
you create new agencies? If so, in what
area(s)?
I do not feel like we need any new federal agencies. If
anything, there are a lot of agencies that need to be done away with. When I
was going through the list of federal agencies, I couldn’t believe how many
there were! A lot of them seem to overlap one another and could definitely be
combined to save money. Some others are outdated yet are still active and
wasting money. And then again, there are those that should have never been
created to begin with. I believe the president should take some time to go
through and combine and eliminate agencies that are no longer serving their
full purposes. Any way that our country can eliminate spending without negative
impact should be taken advantage of, instead of just creating new agencies to
clean up the mess others have created.
I believe you made a good choice in choosing the National Security Counsel(NSC). I think its very important that there is an agency to help advise the President, there are always going to be a lot of matters for which he/she may not know all about and when it comes to our National Security, thats no laughing matter.
ReplyDeleteI'm not quite sure if we could completely do without the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service. It seems to serve a good purpose with handling disputes over business contracts as well as trying to keep the peace among coorporations. In fact they seem quite rooted in mediating between companies and newly formed unions in reaching agreements without negative effects.
ReplyDeleteI do not know so much about not making any more federal agencies, but I can see how there is overlap out there because of the sheer quality of the federal agencies. I can also see that there are some agencies that are outdated and either needs to be undated or done away with.
ReplyDeleteI couldn’t think of any federal agencies to come up with that are not already in place but I think that they should be made in the future. I think that federal agencies can change and people will always be looking for a loop whole somewhere so there is probably always going to be a need for a new federal agency somewhere sometime. I think that an agency should be put in place to help with the national debt even though it sounds kind of contradictory since agencies do have a foot in the debt but maybe they could lower the amount of money that all of these agencies us and maybe help lower the national debt deficit.
ReplyDeleteI liked your choices of agencies to research. I have to agree, although I know nothing about the FMCS, that it could be done away with. It doesn't sound like anything that is absolutely vital to our bureaucracy. There are so many that several of them could combined or done away with in order to simplify. The NRC is a quite interesting one. It seems to be very impacting and influential on our President which makes it quite important.
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