{| border=1 align=right cellpadding=2 cellspacing=0 style="margin-left:0.5em;" |+ Dept. of State |- |style="background:#efefef;" align="center" colspan="2"|
media:US-DeptOfState-Seal.jpg |- |Established:||July 27, 1789 |- |Renamed:||September 15, 1789 |- |United States Secretary of State:||Condoleezza Rice |- |United States Deputy Secretary of State:||Robert Zoellick |- |Budget:||$9.96 billion (2004) |- |Employees:||30,266 (2004) |} The United States Department of State, often referred to as the State Department, is the United States Cabinet-level foreign affairs agency of the United States government of the United States, equivalent to foreign ministries in other countries. It is administered by the United States Secretary of State. It is headquartered in the Harry S. Truman Building a few blocks from the White House in the Foggy Bottom neighborhood of Washington, DC. The headquarters house (among other things) the State Department Operations Center and the Nuclear Risk Reduction Center. ==History== The United States Constitution, drafted in Philadelphia in the summer of 1787 and ratified by the states the following year, gave the President of the United States responsibility for the conduct of the nation's foreign relations. It soon became clear, however, that an executive branch was necessary to support the President in the conduct of the affairs of the new Federal Government. The United States House of Representatives and United States Senate approved legislation to establish a Department of Foreign Affairs on July 21, 1789, and President Washington signed it into law on July 27, making the Department of Foreign Affairs the first Federal agency to be created under the new Constitution. This legislation remains the basic law of the Department of State. In September 1789, additional legislation changed the name of the agency to the Department of State and assigned to it a variety of domestic duties. These responsibilities grew to include management of the United States Mint, keeper of the Great Seal of the United States, and the taking of the United States Census Bureau. President George Washington signed the new legislation on September 15. Most of these domestic duties of the Department of State were eventually turned over to various new Federal departments and agencies that were established during the 19th century. On September 29, 1789, President Washington appointed Thomas Jefferson of Virginia, then Minister to France, to be the first United States Secretary of State. The State Department became the center of controversy during McCarthyism in the mid-20th century, as a number of government officials were interrogated and sometimes blacklisted for alleged spy activity for the Soviet Union. Recent declassified Soviet documents have confirmed the existence of some spies within the department, though the anti-communist "witch hunt" also caused many innocent individuals to suffer the loss of their careers and reputations. On September 11, 2001, as September 11 attacks, there were also early reports that terrorists also struck at the State Department, detonating a car bomb within the vicinity. However, the reports turned out to be false. == Duties and responsibilities == The Executive Branch and the Congress of the United States have United States Constitution responsibilities for U.S. foreign policy. Within the Executive Branch, the Department of State is the lead U.S. foreign affairs agency, and its head, the Secretary of State, is the President's principal foreign policy adviser, though other officials or individuals may have more influence on his foreign policy decisions. The Department advances U.S. objectives and interests in the world through its primary role in developing and implementing the President's foreign policy. The Department also supports the United States Diplomatic History activities of other U.S. Government entities including the United States Department of Commerce and the U.S. Agency for International Development. It also provides an array of important services to U.S. citizens and to foreigners seeking to visit or immigrate to the U.S. All foreign affairs activities -- U.S. representation abroad, foreign assistance programs, countering international crime, foreign military training programs, the services the Department provides, and more -- are paid for by the foreign affairs budget, which represents little more than 1% of the total federal budget, or about 12 cents a day for each American citizen. As stated by the Department of State, its purpose includes: * Promoting peace and stability in regions of vital interest; * Opening markets abroad; * Helping developing nations establish stable economic environments that provide investment and export opportunities; * Bringing nations together to address global problems such as cross-border pollution, the spread of communicable diseases, terrorism, nuclear smuggling, and humanitarian crises. As the lead foreign affairs agency, the Department of State has the primary role in: * Leading interagency coordination in developing and implementing foreign policy; * Managing the foreign affairs budget and other foreign affairs resources; * Leading and coordinating U.S. representation abroad, conveying U.S. foreign policy to foreign governments and international organizations through U.S. embassies and consulates in foreign countries and diplomatic missions to international organizations; * Conducting negotiations and concluding agreements and treaties on issues ranging from trade to nuclear weapons; * Coordinating and supporting international activities of other U.S. agencies and officials. The services the Department provides include: * Protecting and assisting U.S. citizens living or traveling abroad; * Assisting U.S. business in the international marketplace; * Coordinating and providing support for international activities of other U.S. agencies (local, state, or federal government), official visits overseas and at home, and other diplomatic efforts. * Keeping the public informed about U.S. foreign policy and relations with other countries and providing feedback from the public to administration officials. * Provides diplomatic license plates in the United States for non-diplomatic staff vehicles and the vehicles of diplomats of foreign countries having diplomatic immunity in the United States. The Department of State conducts these activities with a workforce of Civil Service employees. Overseas, members of the Foreign Service, including officers, specialists and other diplomatic personnel represent America; analyze and report on political, economic, and social trends in the host country; and respond to the needs of American citizens abroad. The U.S. maintains diplomatic relations with about 180 countries and also maintains relations with many international organizations, adding up to a total of more than 250 posts around the world. In the United States, about 5,000 profession , technical, and administrative domestic employees work alongside members of the Diplomatic Service compiling and analyzing reports from overseas, providing logistical support to posts, consulting with and keeping the Congress informed about foreign policy initiatives and policies, communicating with the American public, formulating and overseeing the budget, issuing passports and travel warnings, and more. == Operating units == * Bureau of Administration ** Office of Allowances ** Office of Authentication ** Language Services ** Office of Logistics Management ** Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization ** Office of Overseas Schools ** Office of Multi-Media Services ** Office of Directives Management ** Office of Commissary and Recreation Affairs ** Office of the Procurement Executive * Bureau of African Affairs * Bureau of Arms Control * Bureau of Consular Affairs * Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor * Bureau of Diplomatic Security **Office of Foreign Missions * Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs * Bureau of Economic and Business Affairs * Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs * Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs * Bureau of Human Resources * Bureau of Information Resource Management * Bureau of Intelligence and Research * Bureau for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs * Bureau of International Organization Affairs * Bureau of Legislative Affairs * Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs * Bureau of Nonproliferation * Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs * Bureau of Overseas Buildings Operations * Bureau of Political-Military Affairs * Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration * Bureau of Public Affairs * Bureau of Resource Management * Bureau of South Asian Affairs * Bureau of Verification and Compliance * Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs * Counterterrorism Office (which produces the Patterns of Global Terrorism report) * National Foreign Affairs Training Center (former Foreign Service Institute) * Office of International Information Programs * Office of the Legal Adviser * Office of Management Policy * Office of Protocol * Office of the Science and Technology Adviser * Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons * Office of War Crimes Issues == External links == * [http://www.state.gov/ United States Department of State website] * [http://www.state.gov/www/about_state/history/dephis.html History of the U.S. Department of State] United States Executive Departments United States Department of State
''An event in this article is a Template:July 27 selected anniversaries'' ----- I recognize that this entry is heavily propagandistic, and would like for someone else to take a stab at putting it in shape. I'd prefer to recuse myself from the case. ;-) Also, there is quite a lot more information about various agencies within the U.S. Dept State at http://www.state.gov/r/pa/rls/dos/index.cfm?docid=436&clid=264 --KQ :my favorite propaganda bit is the 'we do it all with fewer employees than the city of Memphis!' gosh, those dedicated DoS employees! I cut "advances U.S. objectives and interests in shaping a freer, more secure, and more prosperous world" down to "advances U.S. objectives and interests in the world", which seems more NPOV. --MichaelTinkler Similarly I changed "Creating jobs at home by opening markets abroad" to "Opening markets abroad". What might make your thing more NPOV, and it's probably spelled out elsewhere, is what the DoS defines as "freer, more secure, and more prosperous". Great examples for the :doublespeak entry. --TheCunctator Is it appropriate to refer to the Department's workforce as "small" (in the Duties and Responsibilities section)? It has 30,000 employees... - User:Walkiped 23:49, 28 Nov 2004 (UTC) :I removed the "small workforce" references. The claim doesn't make sense in light of the fact that the Department has 30,000 employees. And, as MichaelTinkler notes above, it's a little propaganda-esque (not surprising, considering the Duties and Responsbilities section was copied right out of a [http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/rls/dos/436.htm State Department webpage] talking about all the things the Department does). - User:Walkiped 04:59, 17 Dec 2004 (UTC) ==Civil Service vs. Foreign Service== : All of the Department's employees are civil servants, part of the US Civil Service. Someone keeps adding sentences about "Foreign Service officers" as if they are the only employees in the Diplomatic Service. The truth is that the Diplomatic Service includes Foreign Service Officers, Foreign Service specialists, and many other categories of employees. Secretary Powell has made this clear in recent remarks. and implies that the Foreign Service is not part of the Civil Service. However, the US Code Title V defines the Civil Service to include both the Competitive Service and the Excepted Service. The Foreign Service is part of the Excepted Service. ::The text in question was copied directly from a [http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/rls/dos/436.htm State Department webpage] (after some NPOV and other editing), which makes a clear distinction between Civil Service and Foreign Service employees ("''The Department of State conducts all of these activities with a small workforce comprised of Civil Service and Foreign Service employees.''"). It's true that [http://www.access.gpo.gov/uscode/title5/partiii_subparta_chapter21_.html US Code Title V, Part III, Subpart A, Chapter 21, Section 2101] appears to define the Foreign Service as part of the Civil Service, but it does so, "for the purpose of this title". So I'm not sure the definition extends beyond intepreting Title V of the U.S. Code. I also concede that the Foreign Service consists of more than just Foreign Service Officers, as Foreign Service specialists and Foreign Service Nationals are also part of the Foreign Service. But I don't think it's correct to say, "The Department of State conducts these activities with a workforce of Civil Service employees." Am I off-base? I'd appreciate your thoughts on this. - User:Walkiped 12:54, 18 Jan 2005 (UTC) The State Department has internal regulations known as the FAM (Foreign Affairs Manual). Internally, it defines "civil service employees" as those employed under the GS salary schedule and "foreign service employees" as those who are members of the Foreign Service. This is only the State Departments internal nomenclature, not to be confused with the term "Civil Service" in the official legal sense as used throughout the USG. Maybe to avoid confusion and controversy, it would be better to delete the passage "The Department of State conducts these activities with a workforce of Civil Service employees." altogether. Alternatively, one could state that internally, the Dept. classifies employees as "civil" and "foreign" service, although this is probably not necessary. Most importantly, under the current leadership, the policy has stressed the importance of working together as a team, that all members of the Diplomatic Service are equally valued, and that labels such as "FS", "GS", etc are not important. FSO (Tokyo, Japan)
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{| border=1 align=right cellpadding=2 cellspacing=0 style="margin-left:0.5em;" |+ Dept. of State |- |style="background:#efefef;" align="center" colspan="2"|
media:US-DeptOfState-Seal.jpg |- |Established:||July 27, 1789 |- |Renamed:||September 15, 1789 |- |United States Secretary of State:||Condoleezza Rice |- |United States Deputy Secretary of State:||Robert Zoellick |- |Budget:||$9.96 billion (2004) |- |Employees:||30,266 (2004) |} The United States Department of State, often referred to as the State Department, is the United States Cabinet-level foreign affairs agency of the United States government of the United States, equivalent to foreign ministries in other countries. It is administered by the United States Secretary of State. It is headquartered in the Harry S. Truman Building a few blocks from the White House in the Foggy Bottom neighborhood of Washington, DC. The headquarters house (among other things) the State Department Operations Center and the Nuclear Risk Reduction Center. ==History== The United States Constitution, drafted in Philadelphia in the summer of 1787 and ratified by the states the following year, gave the President of the United States responsibility for the conduct of the nation's foreign relations. It soon became clear, however, that an executive branch was necessary to support the President in the conduct of the affairs of the new Federal Government. The United States House of Representatives and United States Senate approved legislation to establish a Department of Foreign Affairs on July 21, 1789, and President Washington signed it into law on July 27, making the Department of Foreign Affairs the first Federal agency to be created under the new Constitution. This legislation remains the basic law of the Department of State. In September 1789, additional legislation changed the name of the agency to the Department of State and assigned to it a variety of domestic duties. These responsibilities grew to include management of the United States Mint, keeper of the Great Seal of the United States, and the taking of the United States Census Bureau. President George Washington signed the new legislation on September 15. Most of these domestic duties of the Department of State were eventually turned over to various new Federal departments and agencies that were established during the 19th century. On September 29, 1789, President Washington appointed Thomas Jefferson of Virginia, then Minister to France, to be the first United States Secretary of State. The State Department became the center of controversy during McCarthyism in the mid-20th century, as a number of government officials were interrogated and sometimes blacklisted for alleged spy activity for the Soviet Union. Recent declassified Soviet documents have confirmed the existence of some spies within the department, though the anti-communist "witch hunt" also caused many innocent individuals to suffer the loss of their careers and reputations. On September 11, 2001, as September 11 attacks, there were also early reports that terrorists also struck at the State Department, detonating a car bomb within the vicinity. However, the reports turned out to be false. == Duties and responsibilities == The Executive Branch and the Congress of the United States have United States Constitution responsibilities for U.S. foreign policy. Within the Executive Branch, the Department of State is the lead U.S. foreign affairs agency, and its head, the Secretary of State, is the President's principal foreign policy adviser, though other officials or individuals may have more influence on his foreign policy decisions. The Department advances U.S. objectives and interests in the world through its primary role in developing and implementing the President's foreign policy. The Department also supports the United States Diplomatic History activities of other U.S. Government entities including the United States Department of Commerce and the U.S. Agency for International Development. It also provides an array of important services to U.S. citizens and to foreigners seeking to visit or immigrate to the U.S. All foreign affairs activities -- U.S. representation abroad, foreign assistance programs, countering international crime, foreign military training programs, the services the Department provides, and more -- are paid for by the foreign affairs budget, which represents little more than 1% of the total federal budget, or about 12 cents a day for each American citizen. As stated by the Department of State, its purpose includes: * Promoting peace and stability in regions of vital interest; * Opening markets abroad; * Helping developing nations establish stable economic environments that provide investment and export opportunities; * Bringing nations together to address global problems such as cross-border pollution, the spread of communicable diseases, terrorism, nuclear smuggling, and humanitarian crises. As the lead foreign affairs agency, the Department of State has the primary role in: * Leading interagency coordination in developing and implementing foreign policy; * Managing the foreign affairs budget and other foreign affairs resources; * Leading and coordinating U.S. representation abroad, conveying U.S. foreign policy to foreign governments and international organizations through U.S. embassies and consulates in foreign countries and diplomatic missions to international organizations; * Conducting negotiations and concluding agreements and treaties on issues ranging from trade to nuclear weapons; * Coordinating and supporting international activities of other U.S. agencies and officials. The services the Department provides include: * Protecting and assisting U.S. citizens living or traveling abroad; * Assisting U.S. business in the international marketplace; * Coordinating and providing support for international activities of other U.S. agencies (local, state, or federal government), official visits overseas and at home, and other diplomatic efforts. * Keeping the public informed about U.S. foreign policy and relations with other countries and providing feedback from the public to administration officials. * Provides diplomatic license plates in the United States for non-diplomatic staff vehicles and the vehicles of diplomats of foreign countries having diplomatic immunity in the United States. The Department of State conducts these activities with a workforce of Civil Service employees. Overseas, members of the Foreign Service, including officers, specialists and other diplomatic personnel represent America; analyze and report on political, economic, and social trends in the host country; and respond to the needs of American citizens abroad. The U.S. maintains diplomatic relations with about 180 countries and also maintains relations with many international organizations, adding up to a total of more than 250 posts around the world. In the United States, about 5,000 profession , technical, and administrative domestic employees work alongside members of the Diplomatic Service compiling and analyzing reports from overseas, providing logistical support to posts, consulting with and keeping the Congress informed about foreign policy initiatives and policies, communicating with the American public, formulating and overseeing the budget, issuing passports and travel warnings, and more. == Operating units == * Bureau of Administration ** Office of Allowances ** Office of Authentication ** Language Services ** Office of Logistics Management ** Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization ** Office of Overseas Schools ** Office of Multi-Media Services ** Office of Directives Management ** Office of Commissary and Recreation Affairs ** Office of the Procurement Executive * Bureau of African Affairs * Bureau of Arms Control * Bureau of Consular Affairs * Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor * Bureau of Diplomatic Security **Office of Foreign Missions * Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs * Bureau of Economic and Business Affairs * Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs * Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs * Bureau of Human Resources * Bureau of Information Resource Management * Bureau of Intelligence and Research * Bureau for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs * Bureau of International Organization Affairs * Bureau of Legislative Affairs * Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs * Bureau of Nonproliferation * Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs * Bureau of Overseas Buildings Operations * Bureau of Political-Military Affairs * Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration * Bureau of Public Affairs * Bureau of Resource Management * Bureau of South Asian Affairs * Bureau of Verification and Compliance * Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs * Counterterrorism Office (which produces the Patterns of Global Terrorism report) * National Foreign Affairs Training Center (former Foreign Service Institute) * Office of International Information Programs * Office of the Legal Adviser * Office of Management Policy * Office of Protocol * Office of the Science and Technology Adviser * Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons * Office of War Crimes Issues == External links == * [http://www.state.gov/ United States Department of State website] * [http://www.state.gov/www/about_state/history/dephis.html History of the U.S. Department of State] United States Executive Departments United States Department of State
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''An event in this article is a Template:July 27 selected anniversaries'' ----- I recognize that this entry is heavily propagandistic, and would like for someone else to take a stab at putting it in shape. I'd prefer to recuse myself from the case. ;-) Also, there is quite a lot more information about various agencies within the U.S. Dept State at http://www.state.gov/r/pa/rls/dos/index.cfm?docid=436&clid=264 --KQ :my favorite propaganda bit is the 'we do it all with fewer employees than the city of Memphis!' gosh, those dedicated DoS employees! I cut "advances U.S. objectives and interests in shaping a freer, more secure, and more prosperous world" down to "advances U.S. objectives and interests in the world", which seems more NPOV. --MichaelTinkler Similarly I changed "Creating jobs at home by opening markets abroad" to "Opening markets abroad". What might make your thing more NPOV, and it's probably spelled out elsewhere, is what the DoS defines as "freer, more secure, and more prosperous". Great examples for the :doublespeak entry. --TheCunctator Is it appropriate to refer to the Department's workforce as "small" (in the Duties and Responsibilities section)? It has 30,000 employees... - User:Walkiped 23:49, 28 Nov 2004 (UTC) :I removed the "small workforce" references. The claim doesn't make sense in light of the fact that the Department has 30,000 employees. And, as MichaelTinkler notes above, it's a little propaganda-esque (not surprising, considering the Duties and Responsbilities section was copied right out of a [http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/rls/dos/436.htm State Department webpage] talking about all the things the Department does). - User:Walkiped 04:59, 17 Dec 2004 (UTC) ==Civil Service vs. Foreign Service== : All of the Department's employees are civil servants, part of the US Civil Service. Someone keeps adding sentences about "Foreign Service officers" as if they are the only employees in the Diplomatic Service. The truth is that the Diplomatic Service includes Foreign Service Officers, Foreign Service specialists, and many other categories of employees. Secretary Powell has made this clear in recent remarks. and implies that the Foreign Service is not part of the Civil Service. However, the US Code Title V defines the Civil Service to include both the Competitive Service and the Excepted Service. The Foreign Service is part of the Excepted Service. ::The text in question was copied directly from a [http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/rls/dos/436.htm State Department webpage] (after some NPOV and other editing), which makes a clear distinction between Civil Service and Foreign Service employees ("''The Department of State conducts all of these activities with a small workforce comprised of Civil Service and Foreign Service employees.''"). It's true that [http://www.access.gpo.gov/uscode/title5/partiii_subparta_chapter21_.html US Code Title V, Part III, Subpart A, Chapter 21, Section 2101] appears to define the Foreign Service as part of the Civil Service, but it does so, "for the purpose of this title". So I'm not sure the definition extends beyond intepreting Title V of the U.S. Code. I also concede that the Foreign Service consists of more than just Foreign Service Officers, as Foreign Service specialists and Foreign Service Nationals are also part of the Foreign Service. But I don't think it's correct to say, "The Department of State conducts these activities with a workforce of Civil Service employees." Am I off-base? I'd appreciate your thoughts on this. - User:Walkiped 12:54, 18 Jan 2005 (UTC) The State Department has internal regulations known as the FAM (Foreign Affairs Manual). Internally, it defines "civil service employees" as those employed under the GS salary schedule and "foreign service employees" as those who are members of the Foreign Service. This is only the State Departments internal nomenclature, not to be confused with the term "Civil Service" in the official legal sense as used throughout the USG. Maybe to avoid confusion and controversy, it would be better to delete the passage "The Department of State conducts these activities with a workforce of Civil Service employees." altogether. Alternatively, one could state that internally, the Dept. classifies employees as "civil" and "foreign" service, although this is probably not necessary. Most importantly, under the current leadership, the policy has stressed the importance of working together as a team, that all members of the Diplomatic Service are equally valued, and that labels such as "FS", "GS", etc are not important. FSO (Tokyo, Japan)
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