PROPOSED 'EXECUTIVE POSITION MANAGEMENT ACT OF 1980'

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OLC 80-'149/1
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20 May 1980
STATINTL
MEMORANDUM FOR: q F " " or of Personnel,
Policy, Planning and Management
Chief, Legislation Division/OLC
SUBJECT: Proposed "Executive Position
Management Act of 1980"
1. Attached for your information is the Office of Personnel
Management's draft Bill to authorize Executive Schedule positions
and to give the President authority to increase or decrease the
number of such positions, subject to Congressional veto. Since
the Bill defines "Executive Schedule position" (sec. 2(1)(B)(2))
to exclude positions in the Central Intelligence Agency, the
Bill would have no impact on our personnel system.
2. The Office of Management and Budget has requested the views
of the Central Intelligence Agency on this draft Bill. We will
advise them that we have no objection to the Bill as currently
drafted.
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United States of America
Office of
Personnel Management Washington, D.C. 20415
March 25, 1980
Honorable James T. McIntyre, Jr.
Director
Office of Management and Budget
Washington, D. C. 20503
Attn: James M. Frey
Assistant Director, Legislative Reference
Dear Mr. McIntyre:
Attached is the legislative package to implement the plan for authori-
zing executive level positions which you sent to the President of the
Senate and the Speaker of the House on December 27, 1979. Edward Preston,
Assistant Director for Federal Personnel Policy, participated in drafting
the plan which was submitted in response to the requirement in Section 414
of the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978 that:
"The President shall submit to the Congress by January 1, 1980, a
plan for authorizing executive level positions in the executive
branch which shall include the maximum number of executive level
positions necessary by level and a justification for the positions."
While we still anticipate preparing evaluation guides for considering ap-
propriate realignment of individual positions when they become vacant, these
guides are not referred to in the proposed legislation in order to give the
President flexibility. References in the law regarding the types of measures
that would be developed or publication in the Federal Register would un-
necessarily limit the actions of the President.
I believe that this legislation not only fulfills the requirement but a real
need and I hope that it would be cleared and submitted to the Congress at an
early date.
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Personnel Management Washington, D.C. 20415
In Reply Refer To Your Reference
Honorable Thomas P. O'Neill, Jr.
Speaker of the House of Representatives
Washington, D. C. 20515
Dear Mr. Speaker:
I submit for the consideration of Congress, and recommend favorable action
on, the attached draft bill to provide for authorizing Executive Schedule
positions in the executive branch and establishing the maximum number of
such positions, to increase or decrease the number of such positions with-
in the maximum number established and to adjust the levels of such posi-
tions. Also attached is a statement of purpose and justification for the
proposed bill.
Section 414 of the Civil Service Reform Act required the President to
transmit to the Congress by January 1, 1980, "a plan authorizing executive
level positions in the executive branch which shall include the maximum
number of executive level positions necessary by level and a justification
for the positions." James T. McIntyre, Jr., Director of the Office of
Management and Budget submitted a plan to you in a letter dated December 21,
1979. This draft bill will carry out that plan.
The Office of Management and Budget advises that from the standpoint of
the Administration's program, there is no objection to the submission of
this proposal to the Congress.
A similar letter is being sent to the President of the Senate.
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To provide for authorizing Executive Schedule positions in the executive
branch and establishing the maximum number of such positions, to
authorize the President to increase or decrease the number of such
positions within the maximum number established and to adjust the
levels of such positions, and for other purposes.
1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United
2 States of America in Congress assembled, That this Act may be cited as
3 the "Executive Position Management Act of 1980".
4 Sec. 2. Title 5, United States Code, is amended--
5 (1) by amending sections 5311-5314 to read as follows:
6 "15311. Purpose; applicability
7 "(a) It is the purpose of this subchapter to establish a system
8 for the orderly control, management, and compensation of Executive
9 Schedule positions, in order to ensure that--
10 "(1) the number of such positions is kept to the minimum needed;
11 "(2) the positions available are allocated among the agencies in
12 accordance with the needs of the Government; and
13 "(3) the positions are placed in the five levels of the Executive
14 Schedule in accordance with their relative importance to the Govern-
15 ment and to the Nation.
16 "(b) For the purpose of this subchapter--
17 "(1) 'agency' means an Executive agency, but does not include--
18 "(A) a Government controlled corporation; or
19 "(B) the General Accounting Office;
20 "(2) 'Executive Schedule position' means any office or position
21 which is--
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"(A) in an agency;
"(B) in the civil service; and
"(C) the rate of basic pay for which is equal to or
greater than (or which may be fixed by administrative action
at a rate equal to or greater than) the rate of basic pay now
or hereafter payable for level V of the Executive Schedule;
but does not include an office or position which is-
"(i) in the Senior Executive Service under section 21001a
of this title;
"(ii) subject to chapter 51 of this title, relating to
positions under the General Schedule and the Merit Pay System;
. "(iii) subject to title IV of the Foreign Service Act of 1946,
as amended (22 U.S.C. ?861 et seq.);
"(iv) subject to sections 105-107 of title 3, United States
Code;
"(v) subject to any provision of law limiting the rate of
pay that may be paid to such office or position to the rate.
payable for GS-18; or
"(vi) under the Tennessee Valley Authority, the Central
Intelligence Agency, the National Security Agency, or the
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (other than
an office or position in such agencies which is filled by
Presidential appointment).
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1 "15312. The Executive Schedule
2 "There is hereby established the Executive Schedule, which consists
3 of five levels of positions, designated in descending order as level I,
4 level II, level III, level IV, and level V. The rate of pay for each
5 level is determined in accordance with section 5315 of this title and
6 section 225 of the Federal Salary Act of 1967 (2 U.S.C. ??351-361).
7 "15313. Authority of the President; maximum number of Executive Schedule
8 positions
9 "(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the President
10 may, subject to the provisions of this section, and except as provided
11 in section 5314 of this title, create, abolish, or change the level
12 (or maximum rate of pay, where applicable) of an Executive Schedule
13 position when such action is necessary to improve the management of
14 the executive branch of the Government.
15 "(b) The number of Executive Schedule positions in the executive
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sum of--
"(1) positions in the Senior Executive Service;
"(2) positions in GS-16, 17, and 18 of the General Schedule;
"(3)
scientific and technical positions under section 3104(a)
of this title; and
"(4) other positions in agencies which are not Executive
Schedule positions but which are equivalent to positions covered
by paragraph (1), (2), or (3) of this subsection.
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1 "(c) Each Executive Schedule position in existence on the
2 date of enactment of this section shall continue to be paid at
3 the rate payable for the level in which it is placed (or be
4 subject to the maximum rate to which it is limited) until changed
5 by the President under the provisions of this section.
6 "(d) Each Executive Schedule position established by the President
7 under this section shall be filled by Presidential appointment by and
8 with the advice and consent of the Senate unless such position is--
9 "(1) in level V of the Executive Schedule (except a
10 United States Attorney position); or
11 "(2) of a temporary or emergency nature.
12 "(e) The President may change the level of an Executive
13 Schedule position only when the position becomes vacant.
14 "(f) Except when it would be contrary to the interest of national
15 security, the President shall publish notice of each action under this
16 section in the Federal Register, and shall transmit to Congress in
17 January of each year a report listing each Executive Schedule position
18 and any changes made under this section during the preceding year..
19 "15314. Treatment of independent regulatory agencies
20 "(a) If the President should determine that an Executive Schedule
21 position in an independent regulatory agency should be created, abolished,
22 or changed in level under section 5313 of this title, he shall transmit
23 to the Congress a message proposing such change and the change shall
24 become effective unless, before the end of the first period of 30
25 calendar days of continuous session of the Congress after the date on
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1 which the message is transmitted, Congress adopts and the President
2 approves joint resolution disapproving the change or, in the event the
3 President returns the joint resolution to Congress with his objections,
4 two-thirds of each House of Congress agree to pass and approve the
5 joint resolution. The continuity of a session is broken only by an
6 adjournment of the Congress sine die, and the days on which either
7 House is not in session because of an adjournment of more than 3 days
8 to a day certain are excluded in the computation of the 30-day period.
9 "(b) Subsections (c)-(i) of this section are enacted by Congress--
10 "(1) as an exercise of the rulemaking power of the Senate
11 and the House of Representatives, respectively, and as such they
12 are deemed a part of the rules of each House, respectively, but
13 applicable only with respect to the procedure to be followed in
14 the House in the case of joint resolutions described by this
15 section; and they supersede other rules only to the extent that
16 they are inconsistent therewith; and
17 "(2) with full recognition of the constitutional right of
18 either House to change the rules (so far as relating to the proce-
19 dure of that House) at any time, in the same manner, and to the
20 same extent as in the case of any other rule of that House.
21 "(c) If the committee, to which has been referred a joint
22 resolution disapproving the change recommended by the President, has
23 not reported the joint resolution at the end of 10 calendar days after
24 its introduction, it is in order to move either to discharge the committee
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1 from further consideration of the joint resolution or to discharge the
2 committee from further consideration of any other joint resolution with
3 respect to the same change which has been referred to the committee.
4 "(d) A motion to discharge may be made only by an individual
5 favoring the joint resolution, is highly privileged (except that it
6 may not be made after the committee has reported a resolution with
7 respect to the same recommendation), and debate thereon is limited
8 to not more than 1 hour, to be divided equally between those favoring
9 and those opposing the joint resolution. An amendment to the motion
10 is not in order, and it is not in order to move to reconsider the vote
11 by which the motion is agreed to or disagreed to.
12 "(e) If the motion to discharge is agreed to, or disagreed to,
13 the motion may not be renewed, nor may another motion to discharge
14 the committee be made with respect to any other joint resolution with
15 respect to the same change.
16 "(f) When the committee has reported, or has been discharged from
17 further consideration of, a joint resolution with respect to a change,
18 it is at any time thereafter in order (even though a previous motion
19 to the same effect has been disagreed to) to move to proceed to the
20 consideration of the joint resolution. The motion is highly privileged
21 and is not debatable. An amendment to the motion is not in order, and
22 it is not in order to move to reconsider the vote by which the motion
23 is agreed to or disagreed to.
24 "(g) Debate on the joint resolution is limited to not more than 2
25 hours, to be divided equally between those favoring and those opposing
26 the joint resolution. A motion further to limit debate is not debatable.
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1 An amendment to, or motion to recommit, the joint resolution is not in
2 order, and it is not in order to move to reconsider the vote by which
3 the joint resolution is agreed to or disagreed to.
4 "(h) Motions to postpone, made with respect to the discharge from
5 committee, or the consideration of, a joint resolution with respect to
6 a change, and motions to proceed to the consideration of other business,
7 are decided without debate.
8 "(i) Appeals from the decisions of the Chair relating to the
9 application of the rules of the Senate or House of Representatives, as
10 the case may be, to the procedure relating to a joint resolution with
11 respect to a change are decided without debate.";
12 (2) by repealing sections 5315-5317;
13 (3) by redesignating section 5318 as section 5315; and
14 (4) by amending the analysis of chapter 53 by striking out the items
15 relating to sections 5311-5318 and inserting in lieu thereof the
16 following:
17 "5311.. Purpose, applicability.
18 "5312. The Executive Schedule.
19 "5313. Authority of the President; maximum number of
20 Executive Schedule positions.
21 "5314. Treatment of independent regulatory agencies.
22 "5315. Adjustments in rates of pay.".
23 Sec. 3. Title 3, United States Code, is amended--
24 (1) in sections 105(a)(2)(A), 105(c)(1), 106(a)(1)(A), and
25 106(a)(2), by striking out "of section 5313 of title 5"; and
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1 (2) in sections 105(a)(2)(B), 106(a)(1)(B), 107(a)(1)(A),
2 107(a)(2), and 107(a)(1)(B)(i), by striking out "of section 5314 of
3 title 5".
4 Sec. 4. (a) Title 20, United States Code, is amended by inserting
5 after section 46a a new section 46b, as follows:
6 "46b. Executive positions
7 "The Secretary, with the consent of the Board of Regents,
8 may appoint, establish the duties, and fix the compensation for
9 four positions at rates not. to exceed the rate payable for level IV
10 of the Executive Schedule.".
11 (b) The analysis of chapter 3 of title 20, United States Code,
12 is amended by inserting after the item relating to section 46a the
13 following:
14 "46b. Executive positions.".
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To accompany a draft bill
To provide for authorizing Executive Schedule positions in the executive
branch and establishing the maximum number of such positions, to
authorize the President to increase or decrease the number of such
positions within the maximum number established and to adjust the
levels of such positions, and for other purposes.
The first section of the draft bill would provide a popular title for
the draft bill, the "Executive Position Management Act of 1980."
Section 2 of the draft bill would make various amendments to sub-
chapter II of chapter 53 of title 5, United States Code, relating to
the Executive Schedule- Clause (1) of section 2 would amend sections
5311 through 5314 of title 5 by completely replacing the existing
content of those sections with new language.
The revised section 5311 would set forth the purpose and applicability
of the revised subchapter II of chapter 53 of title 5.
Subsection (a) of section 5311 would state that the purpose of
subchapter II of chapter 53 is to provide for the orderly control,
management, and compensation of Executive Schedule positions, in order
to ensure that the number of Executive Schedule positions is kept to
the minimum needed; that the positions are allocated among the agencies
in accordance with the needs of the Government; and that the positions
are placed in the five levels of the Executive Schedule in accordance
with their importance to the Government and the Nation.
Subsection (b) of section 5311 provides definitions that would determine
the coverage of the revised subchapter.
Clause (1) of subsection (b) would define "agency" to mean an Executive
agency (which is defined in section 105 of title 5), but would not
include a Government controlled corporation or the General Accounting
Office.
Clause (2) of subsection (b) would define "Executive Schedule position"
to mean any office or position which is in an agency, in the civil
service, and the pay for which is equal to or greater than the rate of
-pay for level V of the Executive Schedule (or which may be fixed by
administrative action at a rate equal to or greater than the rate for
level V). However, "Executive Schedule position" would not include any
position in the Senior Executive Service, the General Schedule, the
Merit Pay System, or the Foreign Service. Also excluded would be
positions in the White House Office, the Office of the Vice President,
the Domestic Policy Staff, or the Office of Administration in the
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Executive Office of the President- Any position subject to a pro-
vision of law limiting the rate that may be paid such position to the
rate payable for GS-18 would be excluded, as would positions (other
than Presidential appointees) in the Tennessee Valley Authority, the
Central Intelligence Agency, the National Security Agency, and the
staff of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.
The revised section 5312 would reestablish the Executive Schedule,
which would continue to consist of five levels, designated in descending
order as levels I, II, III, IV, and V. Pay for the Executive Schedule
would continue to be set as at present.
Revised section 5313 would set forth the authority of the President
under the revised subchapter, and establish a maximum number of Executive
Schedule positions.
Subsection (a) of section 5313 would empower the President to create,
abolish, or change the level (or maximum rate of pay) of an Executive
Schedule position when he considers such action necessary in order to
improve the management of the executive branch of the Government. He
would have this power notwithstanding other statutes establishing.
Executive Schedule positions or fixing rates of pay for those positions,
but he could exercise this power only in accordance with the other pro-
visions of section 5313, and except as provided in revised section 5314
(discussed below).
Subsection (b) of section 5313 would set a maximum number of Executive
Schedule positions, thus limiting the President's power to create new
positions. The maximum number permitted at any time would be 7.5
percent of the total of positions in the Senior Executive Service;
positions in grades GS-16, 17, and 18 of the General Schedule; scientific
and technical positions under section 3104(a) of title 5; and other
similar positions in agencies.
Subsection (c) of section 5313 would provide that existing Executive
Schedule positions would continue in existence, at the same level.,
unless changed by the President under subsection (a).
Subsection (d) of section 5313 would provide that any new Executive
Schedule positions created by the President would be filled by Presi-
dential appointment by and with the advice and consent of the Senate.
The only exceptions to this general requirement would be positions in
level V of the Executive Schedule (other than positions of United
States Attorney, which would all be subject to the general requirement)
and positions of a temporary or emergency nature.
Subsection (e) of section 5313 would provide that the President could
change the pay level of an Executive Schedule position only when the
position is vacant.
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Subsection (f) of section 5313 would require the President to publish
in the Federal Register notice of each action he takes to create,
abolish, or change the pay level of an Executive Schedule position.
He would also be required to transmit to Congress in January of each
year a report listing every Executive Schedule position and any actions
he has taken during the previous year to create, abolish, or change
the level of Executive Schedule positions. These requirement, for
notice and reporting would not apply in any case where they would be
contrary to the interest of national security.
The revised section 5314 would establish a special provision governing
actions taken by the President to create, abolish, or change the level
of Executive Schedule positions in independent regulatory agencies.
Under subsection (a) of section 5314, if the President decided any
such action was appropriate, he would be required to transmit a message
proposing the action to Congress. The action would take effect unless
both Houses of Congress disapprove the action before the end of the first
period of 30 calendar days of continuous session of Congress and the
President approves the disapproval or in the event the President dis-
approves the joint resolution, both Houses of Congress again pass the
joint resolution by a two-thirds majority in each House. Subsections (b)
through (i) of section 5314 would establish, as an exercise of the
rulemaking powers of the Senate and House of Representatives, rules
for the timely consideration of such a proposed action by the President.
These rules are essentially identical to those presently provided in
law for consideration of an alternative to the normal Federal pay
comparability adjustment (5 U.S.C. 5305(d)-(k)) and for consideration
of a Presidential reorganization plan (5 U.S.C. 908-912).
Clause (2) of section 2 of the draft bill would'repeal sections 5315
through. 5317 of title 5, United States Code.
Clause (3) of section 2 would redesignate the present section 5318 of
title 5 as section 5315, without making any change in the substance of
that section.
Clause (4) of section 2 would amend the analysis of chapter 53 of
title 5 to conform to the amendments made by clauses (1) through (3).
Section 3 of the draft bill would amend title 3, United States Code, to
conform to the amendments made by section 2.
Section 4 of the draft bill would amend title 20, United States Code,
to authorize the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, with the
consent of the Board of Regents of that Institution, to appoint,
establish the duties, and fix the compensation for four positions at
rates not to exceed the rate for level IV of the Executive Schedule.
The Smithsonian Institution presently has two positions in level IV of
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the Executive Schedule and two positions in level V- Since the
Smithsonian Institution is not subject to the management control of
the President, and therefore would not appropriately be included under
the President's Executive Schedule position management authority, this
section is included to preserve to the Smithsonian its existing four
Executive Schedule positions.
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To accompany a draft bill
To provide for authorizing Executive Schedule positions in the executive
branch and establishing the maximum number of such positions, to authorize
the President to increase or decrease the number of such positions within
the maximum number established and to adjust the levels of such positions,
and for other purposes.
Purpose
The purpose of this bill is to amend title 5 of the United States Code
to provide a plan for authorizing executive level positions in the
executive branch as required under Section 414(b)(2) of the Civil
Service Reform Act of 1978.
The men and women in the Executive Schedule are the top leadership in
the executive branch of the Federal Government, providing the closest
and most important assistance and advice to the President. The members
of the President's Cabinet, pursuant to Article II, section 2, of the
Constitution of the United States, function at the pleasure of the
President. The other individuals in Executive Schedule positions either
direct independent agencies, serve as members of boards and commissions,
or act as assistants to other appointees in the Executive Schedule.
Considerable attention has been paid to establishing an orderly system
for the employment of civil service executives "to ensure that the
executive management of the Government of the United States is responsive
to the needs, policies, and goals of the Nation and otherwise is of the
highest quality." (5 U.S.C. 3131). However, up to now the establishment
of the top leadership positions has occurred on a case-by-case basis.
Each position has been authorized by legislation and this has led to
inconsistencies and inflexibility. For example, individual positions
have been burdened with outmoded titles such as "Assistant Directors of
the Bureau of the Budget." Most positions have been listed in sec-
tions 5312, 5313, 5314, 5315, and 5316 of title 5 of the United States
Code, but many others have not.
In order to provide regularity rather than to continue a disorderly
case-by-case approach to the creation of Executive Schedule positions;
in order to provide flexibility rather than be confined by the inflexi-
bilities of specific legislative provisions; in order to provide rational
control based on a balance of comprehensive legislative oversight,
program needs, and published guidelines, rather than continue the
process of uneven responses to various interests, this plan is proposed
for authorizing executive level positions.
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What is an Executive Level Position?
It is clear that positions covered by sections 5311 to 5317 are in the
Executive Schedule. However, even within these sections there have
been several anomalies. These include outmoded titles and positions
in agencies that no longer exist but whose title 5 authorizations were
not repealed.
Moreover, many positions exist that are paid at rates equal to various
rates of the Executive Schedule, or at rates not to exceed various
rates in the Executive Schedule, or are otherwise considered executive
level positions even though not placed in the Executive Schedule, per
se. For orderly management, all such positions should be considered
part of the Executive Schedule.
Number of Executive Schedule Positions
There has been no overall limitation on the number o.f Executive Schedule
positions. The number had been increasing steadily, until 145 Executive
Schedule positions were moved into the Senior Executive Service (SES),
and came under the numerical limitations provided for that Service. The
number of SES members is set biennially by a zero-based determination
of need within a statutory overall limitation. The number of SES posi-
tions established following this determination, added to the positions
that have been allocated and established in General Schedule grades 16
to 18, to positions authorized for specially qualified personnel in
scientific and professional positions carrying out research and develop-
ment functions, and to equivalent positions in executive branch agencies
which have executive level positions, will serve as a base from which
the need for Executive Schedule positions will be determined. The appro-
priate proportion of leaders in the Executive Schedule to the number
of top civil servants should be set so that Government-wide, the number
of Executive Schedule positions could not exceed 7.5 percent of the
top civil service positions.
The exact number would be established by the President, within this
limitation, after consideration of the Executive Schedule positions
necessary to carry out authorized programs.
Though this legislation is intended to provide order, flexibility, and
rational control of numbers to the Executive Schedule, the legislation
is not designed to completely restructure the executive level system.
The existing five levels would continue, and all positions currently
filled would continue as they are at present. However, as the Commission
on Executive, Legislative, and Judicial Salaries wrote in its report on
December 2, 1976, " . . . . a significant number of Federal Government
jobs, both in the supergrades and Executive Levels, are evaluated
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erroneously." The problems in the supergrades were taken care of through
the provisions of the Senior Executive Service. This bill will alleviate
the problems in the executive levels.
The President will be able to create, abolish, or change the level (or
maximum rate.of pay, where applicable) of an Executive Schedule position
when such action is necessary to improve the management of the executive
branch of the Government. The positions would be placed in the five
levels of the Executive Schedule in accordance with their relative
importance to the Government and to the Nation.
There will be no adverse effect from the passage of this bill on any
incumbent of an Executive Schedule position. The President could not
reduce the level of a position while an incumbent is serving in it.
The turnover in these positions, since they are almost all political
advisers to the President and accept the positions on a short term
basis, is generally quite rapid. Therefore, it is possible both to
safeguard the employment conditions of the incumbents and to anticipate
the application of the provisions of this bill to Executive Schedule
positions within a reasonably short timespan.
Congressional Oversight
The maximum number of executive level positions is a function of the num-
ber of lower level executive positions. This latter number is controlled
at its upper limit by legislation, and actual allocations to agencies
are based on program needs and are subject annually to Congressional
oversight- Limiting the number of executive level positions to a per-
centage of the number of lower level executives permits rapid adjustment
to emergency needs, while placing an effective brake on unbridled
increases of top executives.
Each position established by the President under the provisions of this
Act would be filled by Presidential appointment by and with the advice
and consent of the Senate, unless the position is in level V of the
Executive Schedule (except a U.S. Attorney position), or of a temporary
or emergency nature.
Except when it would be contrary to the interest of national security,
the President would publish notice of each change in the Federal Register
and would transmit to Congress annually a report listing each Executive
Schedule position and any changes made during the preceding year. If the
President should propose a change Involving an independent regulatory
agency, he would transmit to the Congress a message proposing such a
change and the change would become effective unless both Houses of
Congress adopt a joint resolution disapproving the change within the
first period of 30 calendar days of continuous session and the President
approves the disapproval, or, in the event the President disapproves
the joint resolution, both Houses of Congress again pass the joint
resolution by a two-thirds majority in each House.
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