21.   Indeed, there are too many Cabinet departments, contributing to the impression the executive branch is unwieldy and top-heavy.

22.   Instead they have targeted inanimate objects primarily associated with Democrats like buildings and Cabinet departments.

23.   In these circumstances, a Cabinet department dedicated to that single purpose provides clarity of mission and accountability.

24.   It is absurd that the U.S. Customs and the Immigration and Naturalization Service currently report to different cabinet departments.

25.   It is reviewing five cabinet departments for ways to include religious groups in government contracts.

26.   Justice and the FBI, which is part of the cabinet department, are slated to receive half the funding.

27.   Lawmakers entered the fiscal fray last year pledging not just to cut, but to shut down three whole Cabinet departments.

28.   No federal program is listed for elimination in the Clinton budget, despite Republican calls for shutting down numerous federal agencies and up to four cabinet departments.

29.   Not one was caused by the lack of a cabinet department.

30.   Nobody thinks homeland security, which would be the third-largest cabinet department in terms of personnel behind the Defense and Veterans Affairs departments, would expect less.