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For today's installment of our dot-gov series, where we take a look at the trials and

triumphs of government agencies and the people running

them. We're taking a look at two departments. The Department of Interior is often called the

Department of Everything Else. It's made up of about 70,000 workers, and that includes some of you.

My name's John. I work for the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation. It's a group underneath the, it's within the Department

of Interior, and I work on dam. In fact, right now I'm driving north. I'm north out of Bend,

Oregon, driving north to work on one of the major dam that supplies both power and irrigation

water to central Oregon. I just want to let you know that's one of the

important things that federal employees do is inspect, maintain, and operate the power and irrigation

infrastructure in the country. Thanks for the message, John. The Department of Energy sounds a bit more

straightforward, but what exactly does energy entail,

especially in an agency with about 13,000 federal workers?

We get into it after the break.

I'm Jen White.

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