Bureaucracy: Food And Drug Administration

1. Bureaucracy is an administrative system that depends on rules and procedures, merit specialization, and a hierarchical structure in organizing large numbers of people who need to work together in congruent ways by outlining everyone’s roles within a hierarchy. Bureaucracy enables individuals to specialize in one area of the issue their agency covers. This allows efficiency because the specialist does what he or she knows best, and then passes the matter along to another specialist. The structural hierarchy of a bureaucracy usually has someone at the top like a president, then a vice president, then people in the cabinets under them, and then under each of those cabinet members are a bunch of departments that they are responsible for. This

The FDA is compartmentalized for specialization into the Office of Foods and Veterinary Medicine, Office of Global Regulatory Operations and Policy, and Office of Medical Products and Tobacco. The head of each office then reports to Commissioner of Food and Drugs. The commissioner of the FDA is appointed by the President with the advice and consent of the Senate to ensure that the candidate was hired on merit and has the right skills for the job. The Commissioner manages a bureaucracy of civil servants and reports to the Secretary of Health and Human Services who was also appointed by the President and runs the United States Department of Health and Human Services. The FDA was delegated by Congress to protect “public health by assuring the safety, effectiveness, quality, and security of human and veterinary drugs, vaccines and other biological products, and medical devices” (FDA). This branch of the executive wing of government is very effective because, they prevent drugs from being put on the store shelf or into the medicine cabinet until it had been vetted for safety by the federal government by ensuring manufacturing practices and quality control standards have been met. And by also setting tougher regulations for drug labels and advertising. They also ensure drug efficiency by making

Illegal immigration into the United States is substantial in scale. “More than 10 million undocumented aliens currently reside in the U.S., and that population is growing by 700,000 per year” (Kane). Illegal aliens come to America mainly for better jobs and in the process add value to the U.S. economy. However, they also take away value by weakening our legal and national security laws. Being an immigrant myself, I have a stake in this issue since I do believe that immigration is good for America, and that immigrants contribute a lot to American growth, but the law is the law and it should always be upheld. Over the years, various Presidents have tried to pass laws to legalize the status of illegal aliens, but they have been rightfully thwarted in Congress because granting citizenship to illegal immigrants is rewarding them for breaking our laws. The most efficient way to curtail the number of illegal aliens is to get to the root of why most illegals are migrating here;