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The United States Constitution is the oldest and shortest constitution still in effect among the major nations of the world. Since 1789, the federal government has been operating within the framework constructed in that founding document and its amendments. 

The first three articles of the Constitution set up three separate and equal branches of government; the Legislative (Article 1), the Executive (Article 2), and the Judicial (Article 3). Many people think of them as the Congress, the President, and the Supreme Court.

The reality is that, over the past two plus centuries, the federal government has grown into a bewildering amalgam of agencies, bureaus, commissions, committees, and courts that impact all manner of things from the quality of drinking water, to the price of gas, to access to healthcare and medicine.

The goal of DC Digest is to help illuminate this administrative labyrinth by simplifying the search for essential facts about the myriad elected officials, bureaucrats, and organizations that now make up the federal government. 

For us at DC Digest that illumination means 1) providing basic biographical backgrounds of members of the various branches, 2) translating often complex laws, regulations, and rulings into readable, but comprehensive extracts, and 3) explaining, at a high level, where these people and agencies are spending the taxpayers' money.

In a nod to the brevity of the original Constitution, we at DC Digest strive to provide this information in a succinct, jargon-free fashion to ensure the reader gets the best information with the least pain.