tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10238534.post4983698235494824255..comments2023-11-05T04:35:19.263-05:00Comments on Faceless Bureaucrat: Government Performance and Results Act IIBill Harshawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02094598931693185805noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10238534.post-52825221415061382862010-12-24T17:42:53.287-05:002010-12-24T17:42:53.287-05:00FSA may not be that different than other agencies....FSA may not be that different than other agencies. Then again, it may be.<br /><br />I remember hearing SCS and FmHA types expressing their envy of the Commodity Credit Corporation slush fund, as they may have termed it. Back in the middle 90's, or maybe before, Congress cracked down on FSA's use of CCC funds for IT. Having that flexibility must have enabled the agency to operate more freely than if they had to go to Budget&Finance (as it was then) and OMB for money.<br /><br />Of course, in the beginning (in the 1930's), CCC was run by its board, which included the Secretary and various administrators. At the end of the 1960's there was still a permanent secretary for CCC who handled the board dockets and the meetings. My impression is that's entirely vanished, so the Secretary's authority seeped out to the agency.Bill Harshawhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02094598931693185805noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10238534.post-29572662853123425092010-12-23T19:44:58.766-05:002010-12-23T19:44:58.766-05:00It has always amazed me how little the USDA seems ...It has always amazed me how little the USDA seems to "know" about what the FSA is doing, and how little the FSA seems to "care" about what the USDA wants, or about external "mandates" to make and publish its plans.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com