Also the department of justice building is located where J. Edgar Hoover presides over the federal bureau of investigation.

Several high-ranking officers of the department, including Deputy Police Chief Raymond Cassamayor, were arrested on federal charges of running a protection racket for illegal cocaine smugglers.

The United States Department of State ( DoS ), often referred to as the State Department, is the United States federal executive department responsible for international relations of the United States, equivalent to the foreign ministries of other countries.

It soon became clear, however, that an executive department was necessary to support the President in the conduct of the affairs of the new federal government.

Historians have traditionally been resistant to giving Harding good presidential reviews due to the multiple federal department scandals during his administration ; as a result, Harding has received low rankings as President.

Although Harding was committed to putting the " best minds " on his cabinet, he often rewarded those persons who were active and contributed to his campaign by appointing them to high federal department positions.

NOAA was formed on October 3, 1970, after Richard Nixon proposed creating a new department to serve a national need "… for better protection of life and property from natural hazards … for a better understanding of the total environment … for exploration and development leading to the intelligent use of our marine resources …" NOAA formed a conglomeration of three existing agencies that were among the oldest in the federal government.

" Jefferson wrote, " take together the decisions of the federal court, the doctrines of the President, and the misconstructions of the constitutional compact acted on by the legislature of the federal bench, and it is but too evident, that the three ruling branches of that department are in combination to strip their colleagues, the State authorities, of the powers reserved by them, and to exercise themselves all functions foreign and domestic.

Their implementation involved a rotating staff of 75 to 150 senior officials and other government workers from every federal executive department and other parts of the executive branch in two secure bunkers on the East Coast.

The United States Department of Justice ( DOJ ), also referred to as the Justice Department, is the United States federal executive department responsible for the enforcement of the law and administration of justice, equivalent to the justice or interior ministries of other countries.

In 1884, control of federal prisons was transferred to the new department, from the Department of Interior.

The Department of the Treasury is an executive department and the treasury of the United States federal government.

The post office was the largest department in the federal government, and had even more personnel than the war department.

The United States Department of Transportation ( USDOT or DOT ) is a federal Cabinet department of the United States government concerned with transportation.

The United States Department of Homeland Security ( DHS ) is a cabinet department of the United States federal government, created in response to the September 11 attacks, and with the primary responsibilities of protecting the United States of America and U. S. Territories ( including Protectorates ) from and responding to terrorist attacks, man-made accidents, and natural disasters.

" While the public mistakenly presumes that this federal agency is hard at work conducting complicated tests on every new model of truck, van, car, and SUV, in reality, just 18 of the EPA ’ s 17, 000 employees work in the automobile-testing department in Ann Arbor, Michigan, examining 200 to 250 vehicles a year, or roughly 15 percent of new models.

The United States Department of Agriculture ( informally the Agriculture Department or USDA ) is the United States federal executive department responsible for developing and executing U. S. federal government policy on farming, agriculture, and food.

The United States Department of the Interior ( DOI ) is the United States federal executive department of the U. S. government responsible for the management and conservation of most federal land and natural resources, and the administration of programs relating to Native Americans, Alaska Natives, Native Hawaiians, territorial affairs, and to insular areas of the United States.

The United States Department of Housing and Urban Development, also known as HUD, is a Cabinet department in the Executive branch of the United States federal government.

Upgrading Education to cabinet level status in 1979 was opposed by many in the Republican Party, who saw the department as unconstitutional, arguing that the Constitution doesn't mention education, and deemed it an unnecessary and illegal federal bureaucratic intrusion into local affairs.

* Cannon brought a federal Veterans Administration Hospital to Danville ; it continues to serve military veterans.

Veterans Day is commemorated in the United States on 11 November, and is both a federal holiday and a state holiday in all states.

By the 1920s, the various benefits were administered by three different federal agencies: the Veterans Bureau, the Bureau of Pensions of the Interior Department, and the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers.

The facility stores federal records from agencies in Iowa, Kansas, Missouri and Nebraska including Department of Veterans Affairs and the Internal Revenue Service.

The new settlers to the area consisted primarily of young farmers from Idaho and Southwestern Oregon and World War II Veterans, who received preferential status on the purchase of federal lands that were sold as part of the Project.

Congressman Rees of Kansas was honored in Alabama as the first recipient of the award for his support offering legislation to make Veterans Day a federal holiday, which marked nine years of effort by Raymond Weeks.

Because it is a federal holiday, some American workers and many students have Veterans Day off from work or school.

In 1936, Greenberg took a series of jobs with the federal government, from Civil Service Administration, to the Veterans ' Administration, and finally to the Appraisers ' Division of the Customs Service in 1937.

This technical bulletin was funded by the National Association of Home Builders and by certain federal agencies: the FHA, United States Public Health Service, Office of Civil Defense, the Veterans Administration and the Urban Renewal Administration.

For federal medical benefits from the Department of Veterans Affairs ( VA ) hospitals, prior to 7 September 1980 the veteran must have served at least 180 days of active duty, after the above-mentioned date, the veteran must have served at least 24 months.

The Veterans of Foreign Wars continued to press the federal government to allow the early redemption of military service certificates.

Many students receive financial assistance from federal government financial aid programs or education assistance programs operated by the U. S. Department of Defense and U. S. Department of Veterans Affairs ; U. S. federal government sources accounted for 84. 9 % of Strayer's 2010 revenue.

In that case the court ruled that state estate laws trumped a federal statute concerning the property of U. S. Veterans who died at Veterans Administration hospitals without a valid will.

* Employment of African-Americans in federal jobs such as in the Post office, the Navy, and the Veterans Administration as a result of the Kennedy Administration ’ s affirmative action policies ).

All except the first two of these homes were eventually combined with other federal government agencies to become part of what is now called the Veterans Administration, or U. S. Department of Veterans Affairs established in 1930.

Large veterans organizations like the Grand Army of the Republic and United Confederate Veterans eventually also worked for the creation of federal and state homes to care for disabled or elderly veterans.

This situation has since been rectified by the federal department of Veterans Affairs.

Other federal funders of research are the Veterans Administration, the Health Services Research Administration in the US Department of Health and Human Services, and the Department of Defense.

The federal government also runs the Veterans Administration, which provides care to retired or disabled veterans, their families, and survivors through medical centers and clinics.

The United States Government operates the La Branch Federal Building in Midtown ; originally built as a Veterans Administration Building in 1946, it as of 2009 houses federal offices.

During the mid-to late-20th century, new suburbs grew and expanded around American cities as middle class house buyers, supported by federal loan programs such as Veterans Administration housing loan guarantees, left established neighborhoods and communities.