Congressional Issues 2012
THE BURGEONING BUREAUCRACY
Immediate Cuts

• eliminate the Cabinet-level Departments of Agriculture, Interior, Transportation, and Veterans Affairs;
• close down major independent agencies such as the Tennessee Valley Authority, the Small Business Administration, the Corporation for National and Community Service, the Legal Services Corporation, and the Appalachian Regional Commission; and
• terminate obscure independent agencies like the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation, the Japan–United States Friendship Commission, the Marine Mammal Commission, America’s Education Goals Panel, the State Justice Institute, and the United States Institute of Peace.

Highlights:

Independent Regulatory Agencies: 
Government Intervention in the Market

• Regulatory Reform: No Silver Bullet
• Civil Aeronautics Board 
• Commodity Futures Trading Commission
• Consumer Product Safety Commission
• Federal Communications Commission; see under telecommunications 
• Federal Election Commission
• Federal Maritime Commission
• Federal Trade Commission; see under Trade
• Interstate Commerce Commission; see under Commerce
• National Transportation Safety Board; see under Transportation
• Securities Exchange Commission; see under Securities
• U.S Postal Service & The Postal Rate Commission

Other Agencies

Federal Agencies

• Corporation for National Service
• Environmental Protection Agency see Environment
• Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
• National Endowment for the Arts; see Cultural Agencies
• National Endowment for the Humanities; see Cultural Agencies
• National Performance Review
• Office of National Drug Control Policy ;  see under War on Drugs
• Small Business Administration; see under Corporate Welfare
• US Information Agency
• US Trade Representative; see under Trade

• Intelligence
• OSHA
• SPACE
• Telecommunications
• The Food and Drug Administration
• Other Costly Agencies

 Quasi-Official Agencies

• Legal Services Corporation
• Smithsonian Institution
• State Justice Institute
• United States Institute of Peace

• House Committees and Subcommittees   [Senate]
• Even more bureaucracies