Executive Bureaucracy- Jaskirat Multani, Dilpreet Singh, Howard Tai

Executive Bureaucracy- Jaskirat Multani, Dilpreet Singh, Howard Tai

I. U.S. Department of State

A) Founded: July 27, 1789

B) Historical Context:

1. Oldest cabinet

2. Handles foreign affairs of U.S. government

C) Leader: John Kerry

D) Media: “House Panel Faults Failure to Review Visa Applicants Social Media Use” (http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/18/us/politics/house-panel-faults-failure-to-review-visa-applicants-social-media-use.html)

II. Food and Drug Administration

A) Founded: June 30, 1906

B) Historical Context: formed to enforce the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act

C) Leader: Michael R. Taylor

D) Media: “FDA must develop plan to label genetically engineered salmon, Congress says” (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2015/12/17/congress-to-fda-no-genetically-engineered-salmon-in-supermarkets-unless-it-is-labeled/)

III. Center for Disease Control and Prevention

A) Founded: July 1, 1946

B) Historical Context: formed as a successor to the World War II Malaria Control in War Areas program to fight against malaria

C) Leader: Thomas R. Frieden

D) Media: “When Gun Violence Felt Like a Disease, a City in Delaware turned to the C.D.C.” (http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/25/us/cdc-gun-violence-wilmington.html)

IV. U.S Department of Health and Human Services

A) Founded: May 4, 1980

B) Historical Context:

1. Originally the Federal Security Agency (established July 1, 1939)- goal of bringing together all federal organizations in the fields of health, education, and social security in one organization.

2. 1953: the FSA became the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare 3. 1980: The Department of Health and Human Services officially opened after the Education Organization Act of 1979 removed the education components from the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare

C) Leader: Sylvia Mathews Burwell

D) Media: “Nursing Homes Bill for More Therapy Than Patients Need, U.S. Says” (http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/30/us/nursing-homes-bill-for-more-therapy-than-patients-need-us-says.html)

V. Center for Strategic Counterterrorism Communications

A) Founded: 2010

B) Historical Context: established to  coordinate, orient, and inform government-wide foreign communications activities targeted against terrorism and violent extremism, particularly al-Qaida

C) Leader: Rashad Hussain

D) Media: “U.S. Intensifies Effort to Blunt ISIS’ Message” (http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/17/world/middleeast/us-intensifies-effort-to-blunt-isis-message.html)