Title: How Many Federal Agencies Exist? We Can't Drain The Swamp Until We Know
Headings: How Many Federal Agencies Exist? We Can't Drain The Swamp Until We Know
Aug 14, 2019,07:55am EDT
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How Many Federal Agencies Exist? We Can't Drain The Swamp Until We Know
How Many Federal Agencies Exist?

Content: That's right: There is "no authoritative list of government agencies." In a 2015 Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA) noted: “ [ T]he Federal Register indicates there are over 430 departments, agencies, and sub-agencies in the federal government.” The Senator apparently was citing the Federal Register’s agency list, which now depicts 440 agencies as December 2016. The online 2016 Federal Register’s index depicted 272. ( It had been 257 in December 2015.) The table nearby summarizes these and other tallies. How Many Federal Agencies Exist? Unified Agenda
61
Administrative Conference of the United States
115
FOIA.gov (at Department of Justice)
252
2016 Federal Register index
272
Regulations.gov
292
United States Government Manual
316
Federal Register agency list
440
USA.gov tally
443
Alongside the 220 executive department components the Administrative Conference referred to as appearing in the United States Government Manual, the latest 2015 Manual (which is not exhaustive) lists 61 “Independent Establishments and Government Corporations,” eight “Quasi-Official Agencies” and 16 “International Organizations.”