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The Commerce Department, created as the Department of Commerce and Labor in 1903 (the Labor Department split off in 1913), is primarily devoted to promoting trade with foreign countries. It also regulates some trade within the United States.
 
The Commerce Department, created as the Department of Commerce and Labor in 1903 (the Labor Department split off in 1913), is primarily devoted to promoting trade with foreign countries. It also regulates some trade within the United States.
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==== Food and Drug Administration ====
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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has become one of the most powerful of all government agencies, because it decides which medication will be allowed to be sold, and which ones will not.  It has been criticized for delaying approval of life-saving medication, while approving dangerous, harmful medication instead.  The FDA is heavily influenced by politics.
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For example, the FDA has delayed approval for good adult stem cell therapies, for which the Nobel Prize was just awarded to Japanese and British scientists, and this has forced some American patients to travel to foreign countries in order to receive this therapy for paralyzing injuries and diseases.  But meanwhile the FDA has approved abortion-causing drugs to the harm of the unborn child, because there is political pressure by Planned Parenthood and others to promote abortion.
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The FDA also has the responsibility to approve the use of controversial new vaccines, which then become requirements for children who attend public school.
    
==== Patent and Trademark Office ====
 
==== Patent and Trademark Office ====
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