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| x American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 |
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The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, abbreviated ARRA (Pub.L. 111-5), is an economic stimulus package enacted by the 111th United States Congress in February 2009. The Act of Congress was based largely on proposals made by President...
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| x http://www.usaid.gov/recovery/feeds/atom.xml | ||
| x http://www.nasa.gov/recovery/2009/03/01/weekly/NASA_Weekly_Report_1.xml | ||
| x http://www.va.gov/recovery/Weekly_Update_Reports.xml | ||
| x United States Agency for International Development |
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The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is the United States federal government organization responsible for most non-military foreign aid. An independent federal agency, it...
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| x United States Department of Agriculture |
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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....
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| x Corporation For National and Community Service |
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The Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS) was created as an independent agency of the United States government by the National and Community Service Trust Act of 1993. The mission of the CNCS is to "support the American culture of...
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| x United States Department of Commerce |
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The United States Department of Commerce is the Cabinet department of the United States government concerned with promoting economic growth. It was originally created as the United States Department of Commerce and Labor on February 14, 1903. It was...
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| x United States Department of Defense |
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The United States Department of Defense (DOD or DoD) is the federal department charged with coordinating and supervising all agencies and functions of the government relating directly to national security and the military. The organization and...
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| x United States Department of Education |
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The United States Department of Education, also referred to as ED or the ED for (the) Education Department, is a Cabinet-level department of the United States government. Created by the Department of Education Organization Act (Public Law 96-88), it...
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| x United States Department of Energy |
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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...
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| x United States Department of Health and Human Services |
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The United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is a Cabinet department of the United States government with the goal of protecting the health of all Americans and providing essential human services. Its motto is "Improving the...
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| x United States Department of Homeland Security |
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The United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is a Cabinet department of the United States federal government with the primary responsibilities of protecting the territory of the U.S. from terrorist attacks and responding to natural...
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| x United States Department of Housing and Urban Development |
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The United States Department of Housing and Urban Development, also known by as HUD, is a Cabinet department in the Executive branch of the United States federal government. Although its beginnings were in the House and Home Financing Agency, it was...
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| x United States Department of Justice |
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The United States Department of Justice (often referred to as the Justice Department or DOJ), is the United States federal executive department responsible for the enforcement of the law and administration of justice, equivalent to the justice or...
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| x United States Department of Labor |
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The United States Department of Labor is a Cabinet department of the United States government responsible for occupational safety, wage and hour standards, unemployment insurance benefits, re-employment services, and some economic statistics. Many U...
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| x United States Department of State |
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The United States Department of State (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...
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| x United States Department of the Interior |
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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 the administration of programs relating to Native...
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| x United States Department of Transportation |
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The United States Department of Transportation (USDOT or just DOT) is a federal Cabinet department of the United States government concerned with transportation. It was established by an act of Congress on October 15, 1966 and began operation on...
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| x United States Department of the Treasury |
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The Department of the Treasury is an executive department and the treasury of the United States federal government. It was established by an Act of Congress in 1789 to manage government revenue. The Department is administered by the Secretary of the...
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| x United States Department of Veterans Affairs |
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The United States Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is a government-run military veteran benefit system with Cabinet-level status. It is responsible for administering programs of veterans’ benefits for veterans, their families, and survivors.
The...
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| x United States Environmental Protection Agency |
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA or sometimes USEPA) is an agency of the federal government of the United States charged to protect human health and the environment, by writing and enforcing regulations based on laws passed by Congress....
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| x U.S. Federal Communications Commission |
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The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is an independent agency of the United States government, created, directed, and empowered by Congressional statute (see 47 U.S.C. § 151 and 47 U.S.C. § 154), and with the majority of its commissioners...
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| x General Services Administration |
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The General Services Administration (GSA) is an independent agency of the United States government, established in 1949 to help manage and support the basic functioning of federal agencies. The GSA supplies products and communications for U.S....
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| x NASA |
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The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA, pronounced /ˈnæsə/) is an agency of the United States government, responsible for the nation's public space program. NASA was established by the National Aeronautics and Space Act on July 29,...
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| x National Endowment for the Arts |
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The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) is an independent agency of the United States federal government that offers support and funding for projects exhibiting artistic excellence. It was created by an act of the U.S. Congress in 1965 as an...
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| x National Science Foundation |
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The National Science Foundation (NSF) is a United States government agency that supports fundamental research and education in all the non-medical fields of science and engineering. Its medical counterpart is the National Institutes of Health. With...
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| x Office of Personnel Management |
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The United States Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is an independent agency of the United States government that manages the civil service of the federal government. The current Director is John Berry, and the nominee for Deputy Director is...
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| x Railroad Retirement Board |
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The Railroad Retirement Board (or RRB) is an agency of the United States government created in the 1930s to administer a social insurance program providing retirement benefits to the country's railroad workers.
The RRB serves U.S. railroad workers...
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| x Small Business Administration |
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The Small Business Administration (SBA) is a United States government agency that provides support to small businesses.
The mission of the Small Business Administration is "to maintain and strengthen the nation's economy by enabling the...
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| x Smithsonian Institution |
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The Smithsonian Institution (pronounced /smɪθˈsoʊnɪən/) is an educational and research institute and associated museum complex, administered and funded by the government of the United States and by funds from its endowment, contributions, and...
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| x Social Security Administration |
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The United States Social Security Administration (SSA) is an independent agency of the United States federal government that administers Social Security, a social insurance program consisting of retirement, disability, and survivors' benefits. To...
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| x United States Army Corps of Engineers |
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The United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) is a federal agency and a major Army command made up of some 34,600 civilian and 650 military personnel, making it the world's largest public engineering, design and construction management agency....
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| x Advisory Council on Historic Preservation |
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The Advisory Council on Historic Preservation (ACHP) is an independent agency of the United States government that promotes the preservation, enhancement, and productive use of the nation's historic resources, and advises the President and Congress...
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| x African Development Foundation |
The United States African Development Foundation (USADF) is an "Independent United States Government Agency" which provides grants of up to $250,000 to community groups and small enterprises that benefit under served and marginalized groups in Sub...
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| x Amtrak |
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The National Railroad Passenger Corporation, doing business as Amtrak (reporting mark AMTK), is a government-owned corporation that was organized on May 1, 1971 to provide intercity passenger train service in the United States. "Amtrak" is a blend...
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| x United States Central Intelligence Agency |
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The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is a civilian intelligence agency of the United States government.
It is an independent agency responsible for providing national security intelligence to senior United States policymakers.
It is the successor...
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| x United States Commission on Civil Rights |
The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights is a bipartisan, independent, commission of the U.S. federal government charged with the responsibility for investigating, reporting on, and making recommendations concerning civil rights issues that face the...
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| x United States Commodity Futures Trading Commission |
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) is an independent agency of the United States government.
The Commodity Exchange Act (CEA), 7 U.S.C. § 1 et seq., prohibits fraudulent conduct in the trading of futures contracts. In 1974, Congress...
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| x Consumer Product Safety Commission |
The United States Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) is an independent agency of the United States government created in 1972 through the Consumer Product Safety Act to protect "against unreasonable risks of injuries associated with consumer...
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| x Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency |
The Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency (CSOSA) was established, under the National Capital Revitalization and Self-Government Improvement Act of 1997, to oversee probationers and parolees, and provide pretrial services in Washington, D.C...
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| x Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board |
The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board is an independent agency of the United States government. Established in 1988, the DNFSB oversees the nuclear weapons complex administered by the U.S. Department of Energy. The DNFSB is independent of the...
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| x Election Assistance Commission |
The Election Assistance Commission (EAC) is an independent agency of the United States government created by the Help America Vote Act of 2002 (HAVA). The Commission is charged with serving as a national resource for administering Federal elections...
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| x United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission |
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The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) is a federal agency whose goal is ending employment discrimination. The EEOC investigates discrimination complaints based on an individual's race, color, national origin, religion, sex, age,...
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| x Export-Import Bank of the United States |
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The Export-Import Bank of the United States (Ex-Im Bank) is the official export credit agency of the United States federal government. It was established in 1934 by an executive order, and made an independent agency in the Executive branch by...
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| x Farm Credit Administration |
The Farm Credit Administration is an independent agency of the Executive Branch of the United States Government. It regulates and examines the banks, associations, and related entities of the Farm Credit System, a network of borrower-owned financial...
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| x Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation |
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The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) is a United States government corporation created by the Glass-Steagall Act of 1933. It provides deposit insurance, which guarantees the safety of deposits in member banks, currently up to $250,000...
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| x Federal Election Commission |
The Federal Election Commission (or FEC) is an independent regulatory agency that was founded in 1975 by the United States Congress to regulate the campaign finance legislation in the United States. It was created in a provision of the 1975...
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| x Federal Housing Finance Board |
The Federal Housing Finance Board (FHFB) is an independent agency of the United States government, created by the Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery and Enforcement Act of 1989 or FIRREA (pronounced "fur-EE-ah"). In the aftermath of the savings...
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| x Federal Labor Relations Authority |
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The Federal Labor Relations Authority (FLRA) is an independent agency of the United States government that governs labor relations between the federal government and its employees.
Created by the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978, it is a quasi...
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| x Federal Maritime Commission |
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The Federal Maritime Commission (FMC) is an independent federal agency, based in Washington D.C., responsible for the regulation of oceanborne transportation in the foreign commerce of the U.S.
The FMC:
• Regulates certain activities of...
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| x Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service |
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The Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service is an independent agency of the United States Government, founded in 1947, which provides mediation services to industry, community and government agencies worldwide. One of its most common tasks is to...
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| x Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission |
The Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission is an independent adjudicative agency of the United States Government that provides administrative trial and appellate review of legal disputes arising under the Federal Mine Safety and Health...
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| x Federal Reserve System |
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The Federal Reserve System (also known as the Federal Reserve, and informally as the Fed) is the central banking system of the United States. It was created in 1913 by the enactment of the Federal Reserve Act, largely as a response to a series of...
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| x Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board |
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The Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board was established as an independent agency of the United States government by the Federal Employees Retirement System Act of 1986. It is one of the smaller executive branch agencies, with just over 80...
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| x Federal Trade Commission Act |
The Federal Trade Commission Act of 1914 (15 U.S.C §§ 41-58, as amended) established the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), a bipartisan body of five members appointed by the President of the United States for seven year terms. This Commission was...
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