This chart notes that the vast majority of White House positions are appointed by the President and none are subject to Senate confirmation.
This memorandum from the Obama-Biden Transition Project discusses the Intelligence Reform Act of 2004 and it’s encouragement of rapid placement of national security personnel in both Transition and the new Administration, including provisions to facilitate the security clearance process for members of transition teams.
General instructions for the Romney transition concerning the priorities of the first 200 days of the administration.
A list of nominees that received confirmation hearings before Inauguration in the Bush and Obama administrations.
The first comprehensive map of the presidential transition process across six work streams detailing the complexity of the process across the major stakeholders. The stakeholders represented include the transition team (agency review, policy implementation, presidential appointments, and operations and support), outgoing White House, agencies and transition service providers (General Services Administration, Office of Government Ethics, National Archives and Records Administration, Office of Personnel Management, Office of the Director of National Intelligence, Federal Bureau of Investigation and Department of Justice). This file was created by The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) and the Center for Presidential Transition. It is formatted for a 60×60 poster.
IBM Center for the Business of Government presidential transition blog post.
IBM Center for the Business of Government presidential transition blog post.
The ACT-IAC 2016 Presidential Transition Project seeks to develop issue papers surrounding presidential transition.
This checklist, developed by the law firms of Steptoe & Johnson and Allen & Overy, can be used to screen potential executive branch appointees for issues that commonly arise in the confirmation process. Questions are divided into the following eight sections: Tax Returns and Tax Return Preparation, Salary and Bonuses, Executive Compensation Arrangements, Household Employees and Other Service Providers, Speeches and Publications, Investment Information and Liabilities and Litigation.
IBM Center for the Business of Government presidential transition blog post.