Day 29 - RED TAPE!!!!

Learning Targets:

• Explain how the bureaucracy carries out the responsibilities of the federal government.
• Explain how the federal bureaucracy uses delegated discretionary authority for rule making and implementation.

Opener:  If the legislature was to make a law that made government responsible for overseeing internet service and social media as "guaranteed public services and utilities" (like electricity, water, gas, telephone, etc.), which one of the 15 executive departments would likely be assigned the agency to oversee their regulation?  Explain why you chose that department.

1. Attorney General: William Barr
2. Secretary of Agriculture: Sonny Perdue
3. Secretary of Commerce: Wilbur L. Ross, Jr.
4. Secretary of Defense: Mark Esper
5. Secretary of Education: Elisabeth Prince DeVos
6. Secretary of Energy: James Richard Perry
7. Secretary of Health and Human Services: Alex Azar
8. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development: Benjamin S. Carson, Sr.
9. Secretary of the Interior: David Bernhardt
10. Secretary of Labor: Eugene Scalia
11. Secretary of State: Mike Pompeo
12. Secretary of Transportation: Elaine L. Chao
13. Secretary of the Treasury: Steven T. Mnuchin
14. Secretary of Veterans Affairs: Robert Wilkie
15. Secretary of Homeland Security: Vacant

Activity #1:  TIP-C

Activity #2:  Commanding the Bureaucracy

https://www.icivics.org/games/executive-command

Close:  N-50 Bureaucracy

LD - 

SD -

Examples - Federal Communications Commission (FCC), Internal Revenue Service (IRS)

Non-Examples -

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