Report with recommendations for streamlining paperwork for executive nominations. It was sent to the president and the chairs and ranking members of the Senate Committe on Homeland Security and Government Affairs and the Senate Committee on Rules and Administration.
Slide deck prepared by Harvard professor, Roger Porter explaining different models for organizing the White House and evaluating the merits of each approach for a potential Romney administration.
Powerpoint deck laying out the key issues associated with White House design. These run from the specific role of the chief of staff to the ideal number of policy councils.
Powerpoint slide with a organization chart for the White house and a list of the top 20 positions that a new administration must fill. These positions are listed in order of priority.
General Services Administration (GSA) second update memo details both planned and ongoing activities being taken by the executive branch to prepare for the possibility of a full transfer of authority to a new president as a result of the 2012 presidential election. The activities are in accordance to the Presidential Transition Act of 1963, Pre-Election Presidential Transition Act of 2010, and the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004.
This charter, to be signed and recognized by the Romney Readiness Project’s Restore American Leadership Task Force, details the scope, structure, responsibilities, operating rules and deliverables of the policy team.
General Services Administration (GSA) update memo detailing both planned and ongoing activities being taken by the executive branch to prepare for the possibility of a full transfer of authority to a new president as a result of the 2012 presidential election. Also includes a GSA report that outlines GSA’s efforts in support of a possible presidential transition following the 2012 election.
On April 22, 2010, Partnership President and CEO, Max Stier, testified before the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Subcommittee on the Oversight of Government Management, the Federal Workforce and the District of Columbia on the presidential transition. Stier discussed the Partnership’s tracking of the 2008 transition and provided several recommendations based on the Partnership’s Ready to Govern (provide link to report) transition report, released a year after the inauguration. Stier thanked the members of the committee for their leadership in introducing S. 3196, the Pre-Election Presidential Transition Act of 2010, and offered additional recommendations, including mandating White House and agency transition councils.
Based on our examination of presidential transitions, and in particular the 2008–2009 experience, it is time once again to revisit and amend the presidential transition law to place requirements on the White House to better facilitate transition activities, and to enable campaigns and the president-elect to be better prepared to govern.
In this Ready to Govern report, we examine the three phases of the 2008–2009 transition—the pre-election timeframe, the period from the election to the inauguration and President Obama’s first year in office. In each section, we provide a short narrative based on the experiences and reflections of some key participants in the transition, and offer a series of recommendations for each phase on a broad range of transition issues. These include:
- Starting the transition process earlier and making it more transparent so there is no longer a stigma on preparing.
- Reducing the number of Senate-confirmed politically appointed positions.
- Congress and the White House to agree on a calendar of appointments so 500 key officials are confirmed at the six-month mark, rather than the current norm of a year.
Obama administration’s 2009 annual report to Congress on White House staff. The list includes the names, titles, salaries and statuses (full-time, part-time or detailee) of White House staff members. This report includes 487 employees — 454 full-time staffers, 1 part-time staffer and 32 detailees as of July 1, 2009.