Number: RL31497
Title: Creation of Executive Departments: Highlights from the Legislative History of Modern Precedents
Authors: Thomas P. Carr, Government and Finance Division 
Abstract: This report describes the principal elements of legislative process used to establish executive branch entities. Legislative histories of the organic acts of these Cabinet departments are set out in narrative form in the body of the report, and in tabular format in the appendix.
Pages: 18
Date: Updated September 8, 2003