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U.S. Federal Agency Acronyms

Below, you will see a bunch of acronyms for U.S. Federal Agencies. Fill in the blanks.

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Last updated: November 13, 2016

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Acronym	Stands For ….
CIA	Central Intelligence Agency
FBI	Federal Bureau of Investigation
IRS	Internal Revenue Service
EPA	Environmental Protection Agency
FEMA	Federal Emergency Management Agency
NSA	National Security Agency
NTSB	National Transportation Safety Board
SEC	Securities and Exchange Commission
FDIC	Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
FDA	Food and Drug Administration
NIH	National Institutes of Health

Acronym	Stands For ….
FAA	Federal Aviation Administration
CDC	Centers for Disease Control
DHS	Department of Homeland Security
HUD	Housing and Urban Development
SSA	Social Security Administration
FCC	Federal Communications Commission
FEC	Federal Election Commission
FTC	Federal Trade Commission
DEA	Drug Enforcement Agency
DOD	Department of Defense
VA	Veterans Affairs

BlendedCow

level 50

Jun 3, 2013

Missed election. Bummer.

cpgatbyu

level 75

Mar 10, 2017

I wish I had.

cranbeckh

level 64

Jun 10, 2013

I don't know if I should be pleased or not that I know all my government agencies...

Deddryk

level 62

Apr 29, 2016

I feel the same way

GeographerCartographer

level 16

Jun 24, 2013

Why do we have so many? So the newspapers have enough scandals to fill up their front pages each day?

ctleng76

level 61

Aug 1, 2013

The government creates these so that more people can have jobs to keep unemployment down.

kapulani3

level 69

Mar 10, 2017

More specifically, the bureaucrats create these (many redundant) agencies so their friends can get their kick backs "legally".

MyMindWentBlank

level 52

Mar 10, 2017

They also serve vital purposes to make life better, safer, and more efficient.

kapulani3

level 69

Mar 10, 2017

That's sarcasm, right? No one who has ever had to deal with even one agency would ever attribute any of the words you used to government or "civil servants".

TinklePork

level 66

Jan 4, 2018

You must have never worked for the government. If you had, you'd see the monstrous inefficiency and corruption. Billions of tax dollars going to nothing whatsoever.

stankyC

level 60

Feb 7, 2018

Ah yes, corporations use resources much more efficiently with $40 million severance packages for CEOs that run the company into the ground. There's waste in government, no one argues that, but by and large, agencies are full of normal people who mostly try to do their jobs, just like any large organization. I personally have an easier time dealing with government agencies than with Comcast, AT&T, my bank, my health insurance, or whatever other big corporate bureaucracy controls much more of my life than the government does.

kalbahamut

level 75

Jan 6, 2019

pork... like we believe you are an expert. Right.

kalbahamut

level 75

Jan 6, 2019

You sound like the sort of person Donald Trump would appoint to head up one of these agencies, only to discover after taking the job that they do a lot of important things you had no idea about.

TheWombat

level 71

Oct 17, 2013

15/22 but surprised I knew so many as a non-American. Why do I know these things?

courthousedoc

level 72

Mar 1, 2014

Boy that was easy. All of them with 2:55 left. I guess I'm just a policy wonk.

burntfrost

level 55

May 28, 2014

It's a libertarian hit list.

HalJordan2814

level 46

Jul 27, 2014

Haha! I totally thought to myself as I was doing it "Here's one that needs to go, that one never should have been made, here's another we need to get rid of..."

stankyC

level 60

Feb 7, 2018

love imagining a world with no environmental or food regs where I can get giardia from my pork and watch the river catch on fire

smartcookie17

level 50

Jun 20, 2014

All with 1:42. I always was a spy freak. And a conspiracy theorist of sorts. But mainly just a spy freak. And I love EVERYTHING that ends in 'agency'. Especially if it gets an acronym.

SDBolts619

level 55

Jul 8, 2014

2:55 left. Thanks NPR!

shortyf1

level 51

Dec 21, 2014

Is not the 'Drug Enforcement Agency' an organisation in Liberia based upon the Federal US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA)?

GirlsGoneZakkWylde

level 43

Nov 2, 2015

Get some.

kasiabasia

level 56

Feb 18, 2016

13/22, pretty good given the fact that I'm only basing my knowledge on hollywood movies.

joez

level 68

Feb 18, 2017

Infernal Revenue Service?

ander217

level 75

Feb 18, 2017

I tried that first.

AdamC0912

level 74

Mar 10, 2017

Quiz will be meaningless when trump abolishes all these departments. sigh...

ShnevorSomeone

level 47

May 8, 2018

big oof

ksockwell

level 42

Mar 10, 2017

There is a federal exchange Commission as well

imalittledespot

level 67

Mar 10, 2017

All with 3:02 left. Thanks, bygone journalism career! Of course, many of these agencies will be gone soon enough too if the current administration gets its way.

Elan

level 60

Mar 10, 2017

I think the EPA is about to move into a history quiz...

ShnevorSomeone

level 47

May 8, 2018

big oof

Djilas

level 72

Aug 6, 2017

From a traveller's perspective NPS, NFS and BLM are missing.

kalbahamut

level 75

Jun 20, 2018

Black Lives Matter is not a federal agency

texdave

level 46

Feb 7, 2018

CSB = Chemical Safety Board OSHA = Occupational Safety and Health Administration USDA = United States Department of Agriculture NIOSH = National Institutes for Occupational Safety and Health

divantilya

level 38

Apr 2, 2018

With all these agencies and commissions protecting us why do we still have widespread diseases, natural disasters, rampant corruption and generally inefficient services?

kalbahamut

level 75

Jan 6, 2019

Widespread diseases? like what? chlamydia? The CDC, WHO, and many other organizations do tremendous work preventing disease. If not for government intervention we'd still be living in a world with rampant polio, smallpox, and meningitis. Ebola, SARS, bird flu, and Zika would probably all have made it to the USA in large numbers. AIDS cases would still be growing rapidly instead of shrinking.
and while the government can only do so much to prevent natural disasters (effective measures to combat global warming would be a great start! and something only governments can do in a meaningful way), I'm sure the emergency response services that FEMA, etc provide have made quite a big difference to those who benefitted from them.

As for corruption, well, that's a little hard to combat when, instead of having politicians influenced by vile oligarchs, we just cut out the middle man and vote in a vile oligarch as president. Maybe in 2020...