“A healthy agency does not require relevance to the national agenda so much as the APPEARANCE of relevance to the national agenda," Humphrey explained. "It is perhaps the second-most important tool in ensuring continued funding." "And the most important?" "A friend on the Appropriations committee.” GovernmentBureaucracyCivil Service Book:The Weed Agency: A Comic Tale of Federal Bureaucracy Without Limits Source: The Weed Agency: A Comic Tale of Federal Bureaucracy Without Limits