Department of Veterans Affairs
Responsibilities include providing U.S. war veterans and their families with comprehensive benefits including pensions, medical benefits, educational loans, life insurance, rehabilitation, and burial services. Units under the U.S. Department of Veterans A
Attorney General
The chief law enforcement officer and attorney in the U.S. Government. The Attorney General offers advice concerning domestic and international legal matters to the President, Congress, and heads of other cabinet-level departments.
Department of Agriculture
Responsibilities include developing farming policies, promoting agricultural trade and production, taking measures to ensure food safety, protecting natural resources, encouraging sustainability of rural communities, and finding solutions for domestic and
Department of Homeland Security
Responsibilities include protecting the United States from domestic and International terrorist threats, and responding to natural disasters. In addition, this department has taken over the former duties of the United States Immigration and Naturalization
Department of Health and Humn Services
Primary duties include advising the president of health conditions in America, managing welfare, benefits programs (such as the Social Security program), and income security matters, to carry out approved programs and to educate the public about the depar
Department of Energy
Responsibilities include managing the nation's nuclear weapons and energy programs, developing plans for energy conservation, managing domestic energy production, developing practices for radioactive waste disposal, and initiating energy-related research
Department of Defense
Primary roles include- advising the president on military matters, formulating American defense policy, and for following through with approved military policies.
Department of Transportation
Responsibilities include initiating formation of national transportation policies, negotiating international transportation agreements, assuring the workings of the nation's airlines and preparing transportation legislation and research.
Department of Education
Advises the president on educational plans, policies, and initiatives and directs department officials to carry out those plans.
Department of Housing and Urban Development
Responsibilities include promoting community development, regulating domestic housing markets, and building public housing units for economically disadvantaged families.
Department of State
This department is chiefly concerned with foreign affairs and relations. The Secretary is responsible for conducting negotiations with foreign representatives and managing the United States embassies around the world.
Department of Treasury
The Secretary is responsible for formulating and recommending domestic and international financial, economic, and tax policy, participating in the formulation of broad fiscal policies that have general significance for the economy, and managing the public
Department of Labor
Major responsibilities include ensuring occupational safety, unemployment statistics and benefits, and for establishing wage and hourly pay standards.
Department of Commerce
The role of the department includes promotion of National and foreign business, the promotion of national economic growth, job creation, improved living conditions, technological competitiveness, and sustainable development.
Department of the Interior
The department itself is responsible for a variety of functions including the preservation and conservation of America's land and natural resources and the protection of wildlife. In all, the department manages over 507 million acres of land, 476 dams, an