The Commerce Department is almost certain to disappear.
Education seems on the way out, too, although no one quite knows where to send the remains.
Energy is more difficult to cut, if only because the Defense Department would have to pick up the pieces. Fear of just such a situation is why Congress created a civilian nuclear program in the first place. Congress also seems sure to eliminate a pack of lesser agencies, as hungry staffers page through the U.S. Government Manual in search of prey. The Administrative Conference of the United States is on the block, it seems, largely because House budget cutters simply don't know what it does. It doesn't seem to matter that the Administrative Conference has a long and distinguished record of making government work better, which is precisely what the budget cutters say they want.