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executive branch

[ ig-zek-yuh-tiv branch ]

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noun

the branch of government charged with the execution and enforcement of laws and policies and the administration of public affairs; the executive.

executive branch

The branch of federal and state government that is broadly responsible for implementing, supporting, and enforcing the laws made by the legislative branch and interpreted by the judicial branch . At the state level, the executive includes governors and their staffs. At the federal level, the executive includes the president, the vice president, staffs of appointed advisers (including the cabinet ), and a variety of departments and agencies, such as the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) , the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) , the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) , and the Postal Service ( see postmaster general ). The executive branch also proposes a great deal of legislation to Congress and appoints federal judges, including justices of the Supreme Court . Although the executive branch guides the nation's domestic and foreign policies, the system of checks and balances works to limit its power.

First recorded in 1710–20

Senate Democrats face a choice: pushing through AG nominee Loretta Lynch, or filling 231 executive-branch vacancies.

For too long we've experienced the executive branch roll over Congress, the press and the American people.

Does anyone wonder why only 43 percent of Americans have a “great deal” or “fair amount” of trust in the executive branch?

There are always limits to how much can be accomplished solely by the executive branch under the United States Constitution.

All of us, that is, except Gene Healy, who wrote the book on our executive-branch cult.

And when we speak of the government, we are not courtly enough to mean by the expression simply its executive branch.

With the executive branch I have little to discuss, for they agree with me in every material point on the subject of the treaty.

Nor was this increased activity of the executive branch of the government the only result of Nelson's persistence.

To-day the executive branch of the Government is transferred to new keeping.

A similar development to that of the executive branch was experienced in the administration of justice.

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