The President’s Cabinet
The Bureaucracy
Chapter 7.4
What is the bureaucracy?
• The agencies, offices, departments &
employees of the executive branch
Getting Hired
• There are FOUR ways to get a federal job:
– Elected (example: President, Congress)
– Appointed (example: Supreme Court, Cabinet)
– Enlisted (example: Army, Navy, Marines)
– Hired
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Part of the Civil Service System
Hired by Office of Personnel Management (OPM)
Hired & promoted based on merit (performance)
Replaced the Spoils System
The Executive Office Building
Cabinet Notes
• Are 15 executive depts.
Originally only 3.
• Newest is the Dept. of Homeland
Security (DHS), created in 2002.
• Head of ea. dept. is called a
secretary, except the Attorney
General heads DOJ.
• Go over the function of each!
Inner Cabinet
• Most important departments.
• Comprised of 5 depts.: State,
DOJ, Treasury, DOD, DHS
• President meets with these
secretaries on a daily basis.
All are vital to US security.
Outer Cabinet
• The other 10 depts. make up
the outer cabinet.
• Oversee areas of importance
but not as vital to economy or
national security.
• The pres. does not meet with
these secretaries as much.
Names to Know
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Sec. Of State: Hillary Clinton
Sec. Of Treasury: Timothy Geithner
Sec. Of Defense: Leon Panetta
Atty. Gen.: Eric Holder
Sec. Of DHS: Janet Napolitano
Bureaucracy within the Departments
Based upon the function of each dept., match the
agency with the department that supervises it:
• Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), The Mint,
The Border Patrol, Center for Disease Control
(CDC), the Federal Housing Authority (FHA), The
US Army, The Diplomatic Corps, National Park
Service, The School Lunch Program, Occupational
Health & Safety Administration (OSHA), Federal
Aviation Administration (FAA), Office of Safe &
Drug-free Schools, Walter Reed Army Hospital,
Office of Electricity Delivery, & The Bureau of the
Census.
How’d you do? Matches!
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State: Diplomatic Corps
Treasury: The Mint
Defense: The Army
Justice: FBI
Interior: National Park
Service
• Agriculture: School
Lunch Program
• Commerce: Census
Bureau
• Labor: OSHA
• HHS: Center for Disease
Control
• HUD: Fed. Housing Auth.
• Transportation: The FAA
• Energy: Office of Electricity
Delivery
• Education: Office of Safe &
Drug-free Schools
• Veterans’ Affairs: Walter
Reed Army Hospital
• Homeland Security: Border
Patrol
Cabinet Memory
Objective: To match the cabinet department with
its responsibilities.
Procedure:
1. Get in pairs. An odd number may require a trio.
2. Give the names of pair members to TA.
3. After all are grouped & recorded, each team
will get a chance to turn over 2 cards. If the
cards make a match, pick up the cards. Go
again. If the cards do not match, turn them
back over in their original positions.
4. The team with the most matches at the end of
the game wins.
Executive Office of the
President, PAGE 67
• Explain the role of each from
7.4:
–White House Office (p. 225)
–OMB (p. 225)
–NSC (p. 225)
–CEA (p. 225)
–The Vice President (p. 228)
–The First Lady (p. 228)