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Agencies are not beholden to Congress; they are beholden to the executive branch that creates them.

That is why Nixon created the EPA so that there would not be a Department of the Environment that was out of the hands of executive power.




Congress creates and funds agencies. Agencies write the regulations. This is all specified in the law that was passed. FCC commission makeup is defined by law and their authority is defined by law.


> Nixon created the EPA

Only because Congress allowed it.

https://www.epa.gov/history/origins-epa


Congress created the FCC. Congress passed many laws governing agencies. Departments are not out of the hands of executive power.


https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congressional_Review_Act


Congress has the legislative power all agencies derive their power from some act of congress.




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