Civics & Government Goal 3.3

Federal Agencies Authorized by Congress to Regulate Public and Private Individuals and Businesses

Under the Control of the President

Manages natural disasters and other threats to the safety and welfare of US

citizens

Administers and services the nation’s tax collection system

Collects and manages worker’s contribution to a retirement system.

Also provides income to disabled citizens

Helps pay for about 80% of medical and dental costs incurred by low

income citizens

Regulates the stock market to ensure banks and businesses manage

investor’s money properly

Makes sure our nation’s food and prescription supply is safe

Provides about 80% of the cost of low income elderly medical and dental care

Safeguards us from dangerous or defective consumer goods.It regulates the sale and

manufacture of more than 15,000 different consumer products, from

cribs to all-terrain vehicles. Its authority ranges from barbecue

grills to swimming pools

Policies that take factors including "race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, or national origin” into consideration in order to benefit an underrepresented group "in areas of employment, education, and business

Protects our water, air, and soil from man-made pollution and

contamination

Chief law enforcement agency in the US. Responsible for enforcing federal laws, also collects data to assist state and local law enforcement agencies

protect citizens from domestic threats

Collects and analyzes intelligence about foreign threats

• Regulating U.S. commercial space transportation • Regulating air navigation facilities' geometry and

flight inspection standards • Encouraging and developing civil aeronautics,

including new aviation technology • Issuing, suspending, or revoking pilot certificates • Regulating civil aviation to promote safety, especially

through local offices called Flight Standards District Offices

• Developing and operating a system of air traffic control and navigation for both civil and military aircraft

• Researching and developing the National Airspace System and civil aeronautics

• Developing

Administers policy to facilitate desirable immigrants, and to protect

America from undesirable immigrants

Protects America from diseases, and other infectious threats to the nation’s

health

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Makes available to all the people of the United States, rapid, efficient, Nation-wide, and world-wide wire and radio communication services with adequate facilities at reasonable charges.

• Prevent terrorism and enhancing security;• Secure and manage our borders;• Enforce and administer our immigration laws;• Safeguard and secure cyberspace;• Ensure resilience to disasters;

To prevent business practices that are anticompetitive or deceptive or unfair to consumers; to enhance informed consumer choice and public understanding of the competitive process; and to accomplish this without unduly burdening legitimate business activity.

• it provides deposit insurance guaranteeing the safety of a depositor's accounts in member banks up to $250,000 for each deposit ownership category in each insured bank.