The Bureaucracy: Power Of The Executive Cabinet

The US Food and Drug Administration is a branch of the US Department of Health and Human Services. The Office of the Secretary, HHS’s chief policy officer and general manager, administers and oversees the organization, its programs, and its activities. The Deputy Secretary and a number of Assistant Secretaries and Offices support OS. (Message from HHS) The FDA is

The Food and Drug Administration, also known as the FDA or USFDA, is responsible for protecting and advocating public health. They are the official government agency that ensures our drug supply is safe and effective. This is achieved through the regulation and supervision of food safety, dietary supplements, veterinary products, cosmetics, vaccines, biopharmaceuticals, medical devices, prescription and pharmaceutical drugs that can be purchased over- the- counter.

For the common American citizen a major concern, as suggested by a recent Gallup poll, centers around the idea that the President, as Chief Executive of the nation, has too much power and influence in the shaping of the United States (Americans' Belief). In particular, there exist a strong belief that the bureaucracy is directly managed by presidential preference (Roff). In contrast, it is a rarely suggested opinion that the President does not have enough power, control, or influence over the bureaucracy. With these two opinions in mind, to what extent does the President have control of the bureaucracy?

The Food & Drug Administration became a possibility because of the Pure Food and Drugs Act of 1906. Harvey Washington Wiley was the driving force behind this law and headed its enforcement, which provided basic elements of protection that consumers had never had before (FDA's Origin). The FDA is an agency that works within the US Department of Health and Human Services of the executive branch of government (About FDA). The Food and Drug Administration is responsible for protecting the public health of all Americans by ensuring the safety, efficacy, and security of a large range of products from drugs to cosmetics (What We Do).

The works of Fran Hawthorne, Philip Hilts, and Christopher H. Foreman Jr. help create a dynamic narrative about the creation, evolution, and growth of the FDA. In her book Inside the FDA: The Business and Politics Behind the Drugs We Take and the Food We Eat, Fran Hawthorne discusses how the FDA responds to pharmaceutical scandals, exterior pressures, and the changing political climate, greatly contributing to my study of Reagan’s influence on the FDA. She focuses on various case studies such as Voixx and the AIDS/HIV epidemic, while touching lightly on how various presidential administrations have affected the agency. This pairs well with Philip Hilts’ Protecting America’s Health: The FDA, Business, and One Hundred Years of Regulation, which covers many of the same topics with a different perspective. Likewise, Christopher H. Foreman Jr.’s Plages, Products, and Politics addresses many of the political concerns surrounding the FDA. Pill Politics: Drugs and the FDA, by Stephen J. Ceccoli, addresses the evolution of the relationship between the pharmaceutical industry and the FDA with a critical

From a staff of one to over 9,000, the Food and Drug Administration has seen great changes since it was first created in 1862. Stemming from a single chemist in the U.S. Department of agriculture, the FDA now encompasses most food products, both human and animal drugs, cosmetics and animal feed.

The institutions and traditions of American life have contributed to the growth of adversary culture, which protects the personal rights of people and the expansion of those rights.

There exist four institutions of government, these institutions consist of The Congress, The Presidency, The Judiciary, and The Bureaucracy. Each and every institution remains essential to the laws. Nonetheless, without one of the system the government would not work, and chaos would arise in the United States. Moving on, let’s analyze the four institutions in detail.

When I first learnt about the world Bureaucracy and looked up the definition, it sounded clear cut to that the president is in charge or should be in charge of his constituent. Looking at the current polls, the president right now is not in good terms with the congress let alone the whole/federal bureaucracy. When it comes to my thoughts towards the presidents control over the bureaucracy, I don’t not believe have control over bureaucracy. I say so because there that has to be taken into account when talking about Bureaucracy. According to the textbook, they hinted to the fact that bureaucracy can range from postal service to drilling and when taking all the bureaucracy individual, government and polices into account, it is just too much

Identify who is in charge of the Department and their function in government then identify their budget. 10 Points

Continuing chapter five the first section covered is on the control the president holds over bureaucracy. This control is actually something that is mandated by the Constitution and covers three main source of power the president can exercise this control. These three powers are as follows: the appointment and removal of powers, the power to issue executive orders, and the role the president plays in the budgetary process. A final power that the president holds in this area is the ability to impound expenditures and funds appropriated by Congress. The next section that this half of the chapter covers is the judicial oversight that federal courts have over the administrative state. This section focuses first, on interpreting statutory authority;

Food and drug administration is a department of U.S health and human services. It’s responsibility is to test the safety and efficacy of new drugs entering the market as well as to make sure that these medicines are quickly accessible to people. The Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act has been passed in 1938 to ensure that foods other than meat, poultry and fish are clinically hygienic and safe to eat. This act also requires that the food should be labelled according to its content. (FDA.org) Drugs and tobacco are also regulated by FDA and in 1996, FDA strictly regulated the use of tobacco products like nicotine, cigarettes and smokeless tobacco, by children and adolescents because of the increase in diseases prevalence and tobacco addiction. Annually 40000 deaths are attributable to its use and most of them are of premature. Therefore the goal of FDA is to stop the tobacco addiction by minors and prevent the deaths and diseases due to nicotine addiction. (FDA vs Brown, n.d) This essay will cover the food and drug administration’s role in under and over regulating drugs and medicines and how it effects our economy, health care system and patients health and safety.

The Bureaucracy was created by the framers to guarantee limited and responsible government. The constitutional framework was designed to do this, but a lot of the framework isn’t even apart of our federal Bureaucracy today. This is because of the separation of powers that the Congress, The President, and the Judiciary branch has or is fighting for the total power of the administrative branch.

Bureaucrat is a dirty word to some people in modern society, so how can a bureaucracy be a good thing? Many Public Administration theorist, argue that bureaucracy is essential to the growth and expansion of the United States. Most of the criticism of the bureaucracy within the government is based on myth versus reality. Federal agencies play a critical and a valuable role within society and are indispensable to the operations of the federal government. Bureaucracy can be simply defined as the system in which decision are made by Public Administrators rather than elected officials (legislator) within the government. However, when the average citizen of just says the single word bureaucracy thoughts and images of evoked over how negative

Abstract: The theory of bureaucracy was proposed and published by Marx Weber (1947). Although there are some studies on this perspective were discussed before him, those theories did not form as systematic theory. After Weber, the issue of bureaucracy becomes a hot topic in the field of social organization. Almost all well-known scholars such as Martin and Henri have published their views on it. Bureaucracy adapted as the traditional organizational model during industrial society, essentially, bureaucracy could exist rational. This essay firstly will review the principle of bureaucracy in organization based on organizational design perspective. Secondly, it will analyze the strengths and weakness of