ABSTRACT
Federal laws, regulations, policies, standards, baselines, and guidelines are key elements in ensuring that federal agencies, personnel, and contractors understand how to handle specific responsibilities and job tasks. Laws are federally mandated policies that organizations and individuals must follow. Federal regulations and policies are mandatory requirements. Federal standards are mandatory activities, actions, rules, or regulations designed to provide policies with the support structure and specific direction required to be meaningful and effective. The US Congress, comprised of the House of Representatives and the Senate, has the chief function of making laws. The Office of the Law Revision Counsel prepares and publishes the United States Code, which is a consolidation and codification by subject matter of the general and permanent laws of the United States. The President of the United States has the statutory authority to issue presidential directives establishing new policy, decreeing the commencement or cessation of some action, or ordaining that notice be given to some declaration.
