What Is The Federal Bureaucracy

There are more than “2,000 federal government agencies, commissions, and departments” *(history). Some of these have equivalent departments at the state or local level. The federal bureaucratic section of government has grown and often overlaps into other areas or responsibilities. Congress and the President have the power to change all that goes on with the agencies, but most often there is not enough awareness about these groups to understand the need for making changes. Many people think the federal bureaucracy has grown out of control. They believe it has grown too large and too powerful. The ability to change this group of agencies is a slow process. The process can be difficult since there are many interest groups that lobby for