BUS 200 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Rulemaking, Proxy Voting
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Congress created federal administrative agencies to make and implement laws. Congress passes enabling legislation, which specifies the name, purpose, function, and powers of the agency being created. Congress gives power to an agency through enabling legislation and can take power away-or even abolish an agency altogether-through subsequent legislation. Legislative authority is required to fund an agency, and enabling legislation usually sets certain time and monetary limits on the funding of particular programs. All federal agencies must follow specific procedural requirements as they go about fulling their three basic functions: rulemaking, enforcement, and adjudication. These three functions make up what is known as the administrative process.
