Government Accountability Office (GAO) report on suggested questions to assist the Senate in its constitutional role of confirming nominees, to help ensure that future political appointees have the requisite skills to be results-oriented leaders and managers.
Memo from Deputy Director for Management Clay Johnson to members of the President’s Management Council (PMC) regarding directions and timelines for activities for the presidential transition. This memo from OMB is dated July 18, 2008 and a copy was sent to White House Chief of Staff Josh Bolten. Goals for activities are to help ensure continuity of public services during the transition to a new administration, and help current non-career employees exit successfully.
The Office of Personnel Management 2009 Presidential Transition Guide provides human resources guidelines for transition teams at the time of the transition to office.
Report by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) analyzing the appointment process from past political and congressional employees within 45 different agencies.
This memo from Obama administration Chief of Staff Joshua Bolten addressed to the Administrator of the office of Information and Regulatory Affairs and heads of executive departments and agencies explains how agencies should respond to midnight regulations.
This Congressional Research Service (CRS) report discusses historical national security related presidential transition activities, provides a representative sampling of national security issues the next administration may encounter and offers considerations and options relevant to each of the five phases of the presidential transition period.
This memorandum from OMB Director Jim Nussle to agency and department heads outlines the George W. Bush administration’s plans for the development the Fiscal Year (FY) 2010 budget focusing on a submission that will provide a complete current services budget baseline for an incoming administration.
Nussle directs agencies to wait until the new administration, or its transition team, is in place to complete the normal director’s review or “passback processes” with OMB. A current services baseline provides an estimate of costs to carry on existing programs and assumes no policy changes. This allows the president’s successor to assess current spending levels and make his or her own policy decisions in developing their initial budget proposal.
Congressional Research Service (CRS) on legislative actions to enhance the transition process since 1960 and the text from major transition statutes.
This Congressional Research Service (CRS) report that provides a review of the 9/11 Commission recommendations and the status of their implementation at the end of the 109th Congress.
The Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004, signed into law as Public Law 108-458 in 2004, includes a provision which facilitates the security clearance process for members of presidential transition teams prior to Election Day.