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The Department of State, the Department of Defense, and the other departments in the President's Cabinet are examples of administrative agencies. Other examples include the Social Security Administration, the Food and Drug Administration, and the National Labor Relations Board.

Agencies often write regulations that build on or clarify federal statutes in the area. Agencies are also empowered to establish their own quasi-court systems and engage in limited fact-finding and to assess civil, and sometimes even criminal, penalties.

Congress creates administrative agencies through enabling acts. In these acts, Congress must delegate authority by giving the agency some direction as to what it wants the agency to do. Agencies are usually given broad powers to investigate, set standards (promulgating regulations), and enforce those standards.

Administrative agencies are created to develop, enforce, and oversee the voluminous rules and regulations currently in force in the United States. There are two main types of administrative agencies: executive agencies and independent agencies.

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