# How much control should the Administration have over the bureaucracy?

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**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [April 24, 2008, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-control-should-the-administration-have-over-the-bureaucracy/446753 "2008-04-24T22:23:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\
**Post date:** [April 26, 2008, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-control-should-the-administration-have-over-the-bureaucracy/446753/21 "2008-04-26T12:38:10Z")

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[QUOTE=John Mace]  
They do. Congress has oversight authority, if and when they choose to use it. And the president, all presidents, will fight against that. It’s set up that way on purpose.

I just don’t see what you’re trying to debate here. Sounds like you’re asking why the president doesn’t do what you would like him to do. The answer is simple: he disagrees with you on how things should be run.  
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Yeah, the current president thinks the US should be a malevolent dictatorship, and we don’t.

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**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\
**Post date:** [April 26, 2008, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-control-should-the-administration-have-over-the-bureaucracy/446753/22 "2008-04-26T15:13:34Z")

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[QUOTE=BrainGlutton]  
What? This is straight from [Wikipedia:](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unitary_executive)  
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But that’s different from what you claimed, as already noted. Hence the charge of exaggeration stands.

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**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\
**Post date:** [April 29, 2008, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-control-should-the-administration-have-over-the-bureaucracy/446753/23 "2008-04-29T02:54:53Z")

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[HuffPost - Breaking News, U.S. and World News | HuffPost](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/04/28/white-house-undermines-ep_n_99081.htm) Some of us think this is too much control.

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