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Feds wildly disagree on number of agencies, range is 60-430
How big is the federal government? So big, it has lost count of just how many department and agencies it has, according to a federal watchdog group.
Quoting federal officials, the Competitive Enterprise Institute said the number given ranges from a mere 60 to a whopping 430.
In face, Clyde Wayne Crews, vice president of policy for CEI, found this gem of a quote inside the Administrative Conference of the United States source book. It lists 115 agencies in the appendix but adds:
"[T]here is no authoritative list of government agencies."
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Digging through other counts offered by federal officials, he found an online Federal Register Index of 257.
United States Government Manual lists 316.
Then there was a 2015 Senate Judiciary Committee hearing during which a senator listed over 430 departments, agencies and sub-agencies.
"As bureaucracy sprawls, nobody can say with complete authority exactly how many federal agencies exist," blogged Crews on the CEI site.
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