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The Code empowers the executive branch, but the mirror only had legislative Bodies — every authority reference pointed at nothing. Fixed by minting the executive branch from the Code's OWN enumerations: 15 Cabinet departments (5 U.S.C. § 101) + 21 Executive-Schedule Level I offices (§ 5312), 42 Body nodes under us/executive/. Then the axis: scripts/extract_authority.py matches named office/department references across all 59,740 sections (guarding against Deputy/Assistant/Under subordinates) and emits data/section_authority_edges.jsonl — 27,804 edges from 17,031 sections (28.7% of the Code) to the offices they empower. build.py renders reciprocal 'empowered by' links on each office node; the section files are never touched. Now: click the Attorney General, see all 2,386 sections that vest authority in it. Named references only in v1 (cabinet-level). Deterministic; body.schema classification enum extended (executive-department/-agency/-office); make check green at 105,746 records. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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type: Body
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title: "Secretary of Veterans Affairs"
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classification: "executive-office"
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chamber: "executive"
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code: "EXEC-VETERANS-AFFAIRS-SECRETARY"
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parent: "us/executive/veterans-affairs"
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schedule_level: "I"
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sources:
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- field: definition
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source: "5 U.S.C. § 5312 (Executive Schedule, Level I)"
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confidence: official
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tags: [body, executive, executive-office]
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timestamp: "2026-07-03"
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---
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# Secretary of Veterans Affairs
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Cabinet-rank office (Executive Schedule Level I, 5 U.S.C. § 5312), head of the [Department of Veterans Affairs](/us/executive/veterans-affairs/index.md).
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## Empowered by the U.S. Code
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240 sections of the U.S. Code vest authority in this office. A sample:
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- [3 U.S.C. § 19](/legal/us/code/title-03/chapter-1/section-19.md)
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- [5 U.S.C. § 5312](/legal/us/code/title-05/chapter-53/section-5312.md)
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- [5 U.S.C. § 5355](/legal/us/code/title-05/chapter-53/section-5355.md)
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- [5 U.S.C. § 8347](/legal/us/code/title-05/chapter-83/section-8347.md)
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- [5 U.S.C. § 8903c](/legal/us/code/title-05/chapter-89/section-8903c.md)
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- [7 U.S.C. § 1446a](/legal/us/code/title-07/chapter-35a/section-1446a.md)
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- [7 U.S.C. § 7517](/legal/us/code/title-07/chapter-102/section-7517.md)
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- [8 U.S.C. § 1153](/legal/us/code/title-08/chapter-12/section-1153.md)
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- [8 U.S.C. § 1643](/legal/us/code/title-08/chapter-14/section-1643.md)
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- [10 U.S.C. § 1074](/legal/us/code/title-10/chapter-55/section-1074.md)
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- [10 U.S.C. § 1074f](/legal/us/code/title-10/chapter-55/section-1074f.md)
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- [10 U.S.C. § 1074m](/legal/us/code/title-10/chapter-55/section-1074m.md)
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- [10 U.S.C. § 1076c](/legal/us/code/title-10/chapter-55/section-1076c.md)
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- [10 U.S.C. § 1104](/legal/us/code/title-10/chapter-55/section-1104.md)
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- [10 U.S.C. § 1104a](/legal/us/code/title-10/chapter-55/section-1104a.md)
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- [10 U.S.C. § 1134a](/legal/us/code/title-10/chapter-57/section-1134a.md)
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- [10 U.S.C. § 1142](/legal/us/code/title-10/chapter-58/section-1142.md)
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- [10 U.S.C. § 1144](/legal/us/code/title-10/chapter-58/section-1144.md)
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- [10 U.S.C. § 1145](/legal/us/code/title-10/chapter-58/section-1145.md)
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- [10 U.S.C. § 1155](/legal/us/code/title-10/chapter-58/section-1155.md)
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- [10 U.S.C. § 1175a](/legal/us/code/title-10/chapter-59/section-1175a.md)
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- [10 U.S.C. § 1216](/legal/us/code/title-10/chapter-61/section-1216.md)
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- [10 U.S.C. § 1216a](/legal/us/code/title-10/chapter-61/section-1216a.md)
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- [10 U.S.C. § 1413a](/legal/us/code/title-10/chapter-71/section-1413a.md)
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- [10 U.S.C. § 1414](/legal/us/code/title-10/chapter-71/section-1414.md)
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- …and 215 more (full set in data/section_authority_edges.jsonl)
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