This Obama-Biden Transition Project memorandum responds to a request for information concerning the inauguration. The author addresses the questions: How much federal funding does the Presidential Inaugural Committee receive? How are federal funds restricted? What is the recent history of private fundraising? How many people work on Inauguration?
Email chain explaining the guidelines for employment and pay of agency review team members.
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.
This template from the Obama-Biden Transition Project details the information necessary for the creation of an agency data file, including sections on agency overview, and a list of high priority issues. The template also requires information on personnel and management; program, policy and regulatory information; and budget and management.
This memorandum provides guidence on how policy teams should write promise books, books containing the promises made by then-Senator Obama during the campaign. The memorandum covers the formatting, sources of information, what to include and citations for promise books.
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.