The correct answer is President. The existence and monitoring of independent regulatory agencies depends on the President. <span>Independent regulatory agencies are part of the Executive Branch. The president's job is to monitor them. </span>
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"Before she led the Union Army nursing corps during the Civil War, New England’s Dorothea Dix led the most ambitious reform efforts for the care of the mentally ill ever attempted in the U.S. Dix argued that a land grant system, similar to the one that created state universities, should be used to create mental hospitals across the country."