No. of Recommendations: 6
I don't think that way but you are not going to convince me that congress exercises the kind of mundane, day to decision making, that is necessary to keep the agency rolling along.
They don't, and that's not what I'm not talking about. The Executive handles mundane, day-to-day decision making; but the Congress handles the creation of policies and priorities for the government, through both the laws and the budget. That type of shared control over the federal workers (by two co-equal branches of government) has no analog in the corporate world.
Imagine two highly respected engineers debating the merits of alternate designs for their project, the mountain route and the desert route both have their plusses and minuses, and the project is starting to experience delays for lack of a final decision. So they head down to congress for a decision.
Perhaps not (though Congress can and sometimes does make those types of decisions themselves). But note that if Congress has already directed that the project be completed, the Executive overseeing those two engineers might have the discretion to choose between the two routes but not cancel the project. Some of the decision-making lies with the engineers (here, the agencies or the President) - but some does not. Again, there is no analog to that in the corporate world, where all of the decision-making is usually vested in the managers of the company (and typically the CEO).
The President's job is to execute the goals and policies of the government, but many (most) of those goals and policies are set by the Congress. The President gets to manage the day-to-day, but Congress decides what agencies exist, what they are supposed to do, how much they are to spend on each program, and what rules they are to follow. The President's day-to-day authority is constrained by what Congress has decided. Again, something that cannot be captured by analogizing to a corporate org chart.
