The correct answer is B) legislate and regulate.
The two terms that summarize the broad objectives of the federal bureaucracy are to legislate and regulate.
Bureaucrats are people that work for the government of the United States. These people are a large number and work in the different departments and offices of the US government such as the Department of the Treasury, the Department of the Interior, Homeland Security, the Department of Agriculture, the Department of Commerce, and many others. Most of these people work in buildings located in Washington D.C.