The
United States Department of Energy (
DOE) is a
Cabinet-level department of the
United States government concerned with the United States' policies regarding energy and safety in handling nuclear material. Its responsibilities include the nation's
nuclear weapons program,
nuclear reactor production for the
United States Navy,
energy conservation, energy-related research,
radioactive waste disposal, and domestic
energy production. DOE also sponsors more basic and applied scientific research than any other US federal agency; most of this is funded through its system of
United States Department of Energy National Laboratories.
The agency is administered by the
United States Secretary of Energy, and its headquarters are located in
southwest Washington, D.C., on
Independence Avenue in the Forrestal Building, named after
James Forrestal, as well as in
Germantown, Maryland.
The primary functions of the Department of Education are to "establish policy for, administer and coordinate most federal assistance to education, collect data on US schools, and to enforce federal educational laws regarding privacy and civil rights.
[4] The Department of Education does not establish schools or colleges.
[5]
The Office of the Inspector General has a unit of enforcement agents who conduct investigations and raids in connection to student loan defaults and fraud.
[6]
Unlike the systems of most other countries,
education in the United States is highly decentralized, and the federal government and Department of Education are not heavily involved in determining curricula or educational standards (with the recent exception of the
No Child Left Behind Act). This has been left to state and local school districts. The quality of educational institutions and their degrees is maintained through an informal private process known as
accreditation, over which the Department of Education has no direct public jurisdictional control.
The Department's mission is:
to promote student achievement and preparation for global competitiveness by fostering educational excellence and ensuring equal access.
[7] Aligned with this mission of ensuring equal access to education, the Department of Education is a member of the
United States Interagency Council on Homelessness,
[8] and works with federal partners to ensure proper education for homeless and runaway youth in the United States.
Mission Statement
The U.S. Department of Commerce promotes job creation, economic growth, sustainable development and improved standards of living for all Americans by working in partnership with businesses, universities, communities and our nation’s workers. The department touches the daily lives of the American people in many ways, with a wide range of responsibilities in the areas of trade, economic development, technology, entrepreneurship and business development, environmental stewardship, and statistical research and analysis.
To drive U.S. competitiveness in the global marketplace, the Commerce Department works to strengthen the international economic position of the United States and facilitates global trade by opening up new markets for U.S. goods and services. Here at home, the Commerce Department promotes progressive business policies that help America’s businesses and entrepreneurs and their communities grow and succeed. Cutting-edge science and technology at the department fosters innovation, and a focus on research and development that moves quickly from the lab to the marketplace generates progress and new 21st century opportunities. No matter where businesses are in their life cycle, whether just getting off the ground or looking to expand into overseas markets, the Commerce Department is singularly focused on making U.S. companies more innovative at home and more competitive abroad, so they can create jobs.
The Commerce Department also provides effective management and monitoring of our nation’s resources and assets to support both environmental and economic health. Through critical weather monitoring, weather forecasts and resource preservation, the department protects not only public safety and security but also our oceans, coasts and marine life while assisting their economic development. Other essential operations conducted by the Commerce Department include the constitutionally mandated decennial census, which serves as the basis of America’s representative democracy, as well as the system by which businesses and innovators secure intellectual property rights. The Secretary of Commerce leads the department’s efforts, overseeing a $7.5 billion budget and nearly 47,000 employees worldwide.
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 Department is administered by the
United States Secretary of the Interior, who is a member of the
Cabinet of the
President. The current Secretary is
Ken Salazar of
Colorado.
Despite its name, the Department of the Interior has a different role from that of the
interior ministries of other nations, which are usually responsible for functions performed in the U.S. by the
Department of Homeland Security primarily and the
Department of Justice secondarily.
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