Under the United States Constitution

United States Constitution

The Constitution of the United States is the supreme law of the United States of America. It is the framework for the organization of the United States government and for the relationship of the federal government with the states, citizens, and all people within the United States.The first three...

 and law of the United States

Law of the United States

The law of the United States consists of many levels of codified and uncodified forms of law, of which the most important is the United States Constitution, the foundation of the federal government of the United States...

, certain federal

Federal government of the United States

The federal government of the United States is the national government of the constitutional republic of fifty states that is the United States of America. The federal government comprises three distinct branches of government: a legislative, an executive and a judiciary. These branches and...

 positions appointed by the president of the United States

President of the United States

The President of the United States of America is the head of state and head of government of the United States. The president leads the executive branch of the federal government and is the commander-in-chief of the United States Armed Forces....

 require confirmation (advice and consent

Advice and consent

Advice and consent is an English phrase frequently used in enacting formulae of bills and in other legal or constitutional contexts, describing a situation in which the executive branch of a government enacts something previously approved of by the legislative branch.-General:The expression is...

) of the United States Senate

United States Senate

The United States Senate is the upper house of the bicameral legislature of the United States, and together with the United States House of Representatives comprises the United States Congress. The composition and powers of the Senate are established in Article One of the U.S. Constitution. Each...

. These positions are referred to as presidential appointment with Senate confirmation (PAS). The following is a list of PAS positions ordered by the Senate committee that usually holds confirmation hearings before a full vote by the Senate.

PAS positions, as well as other types of federal government positions, are published in the United States Government Policy and Supporting Positions

United States Government Policy and Supporting Positions

United States Government Policy and Supporting Positions is a publication of the United States Senate's Committee on Governmental Affairs and the House of Representatives' Committee on Government Reform...

(Plum Book), which is released after each United States presidential election

United States presidential election

Elections for President and Vice President of the United States are indirect elections in which voters cast ballots for a slate of electors of the U.S. Electoral College, who in turn directly elect the President and Vice President...

.

Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry

• United States Department of Agriculture
  United States Department of Agriculture
  The United States Department of Agriculture is the United States federal executive department responsible for developing and executing U.S. federal government policy on farming, agriculture, and food...
  
  
  • United States Secretary of Agriculture
    United States Secretary of Agriculture
    The United States Secretary of Agriculture is the head of the United States Department of Agriculture. The current secretary is Tom Vilsack, who was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on 20 January 2009. The position carries similar responsibilities to those of agriculture ministers in other...
    
    
  • United States Deputy Secretary of Agriculture
    United States Deputy Secretary of Agriculture
    The United States Deputy Secretary of Agriculture is the second-highest ranking official in the United States Department of Agriculture, appointed by the President with the advice and consent of the Senate. The Deputy Secretary becomes Acting Secretary of Agriculture in the event of the Secretary's...
    
    
  • Under Secretary for Farm and Foreign Agricultural Services
  • Under Secretary for Food, Nutrition, and Consumer Services
  • Under Secretary for Food Safety
  • Under Secretary for Marketing and Regulatory Programs
  • Under Secretary for Natural Resources and Environment
    Under Secretary of Agriculture for Natural Resources and Environment
    The Under Secretary for Natural Resources an Environment is a high-ranking position within the United States Department of Agriculture that supervises policy development and day-to-day operations of the United States Forest Service, Natural Resources Conservation Service, and the Office of...
    
    
  • Under Secretary for Research, Education, and Economics
    Under Secretary of Agriculture for Research, Education, and Economics
    The Under Secretary for Research, Education, and Economics is a high-ranking official within the United States Department of Agriculture that provides leadership and oversight for the Agricultural Research Service, Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service, Economic Research...
    
    
  • Under Secretary for Rural Development
  • Administrator, Rural Utilities Service
    Rural Utilities Service
    is an agency of the United States Department of Agriculture , one of the federal executive departments of the United States government charged with providing public utilities to rural areas in the United States via public-private partnerships...
    
    
  • General Counsel
  • Assistant Secretary for Administration
  • Assistant Secretary for Congressional Relations
  • Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights
  • Chief Financial Officer
  • Inspector General
  • Director of the Commodity Credit Corporation
    Commodity Credit Corporation
    The Commodity Credit Corporation is a wholly owned government corporation created in 1933 to "stabilize, support, and protect farm income and prices"...
    
     (seven positions; in addition, the Secretary of Agriculture is an ex-officio director and chair of the board)

• Commodity Futures Trading Commission
  Commodity Futures Trading Commission
  The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission is an independent agency of the United States government that regulates futures and option markets....
  
   (political balance required)
  • Commissioner - five positions (five-year term of office; chair, who must first be confirmed as a commissioner, also needs to be confirmed)

• Farm Credit Administration
  Farm Credit Administration
  The Farm Credit Administration is an independent agency of the Executive Branch of the United States Government. It regulates and examines the banks, associations, and related entities of the Farm Credit System, a network of borrower-owned financial institutions that provide credit to farmers,...
  
   (political balance required)
  • Member - three positions (six-year term of office)

Committee on Armed Services

• Department of Defense
  United States Department of Defense
  The United States Department of Defense is the U.S...
  
  
  • Office of the Secretary
    Office of the Secretary of Defense
    The Office of the Secretary of Defense is a headquarters-level staff of the Department of Defense of the United States of America. It is the principal civilian staff element of the Secretary of Defense, and it assists the Secretary in carrying out authority, direction and control of the Department...
    
    
    • Secretary
      United States Secretary of Defense
      The Secretary of Defense is the head and chief executive officer of the Department of Defense of the United States of America. This position corresponds to what is generally known as a Defense Minister in other countries...
      
      
    • Deputy Secretary
      United States Deputy Secretary of Defense
      The Deputy Secretary of Defense is the second-highest ranking official in the Department of Defense of the United States of America. The Deputy Secretary of Defense is appointed by the President, with the advice and consent of the Senate...
      
      
      • Director - Operational Test and Evaluation
      • General Counsel
        Office of the Department of Defense General Counsel
        The United States Office of the Department of Defense General Counsel was created in 1953.The General Counsel is the most senior lawyer in the United States Department of Defense.-Appointees:...
        
        
      • Inspector General
      • Assistant Secretary for Legislative Affairs
      • Assistant Secretary for Networks and Information Integration and Chief Information Officer
      • Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs
        Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs
        The Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs, or ASD is the principal staff advisor and assistant to the Secretary of Defense and Deputy Secretary of Defense for public information, internal information, community relations, information training, and audiovisual matters in support of...
        
        
    • Under Secretary for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics
      Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics
      The Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics - USD - is a senior official in the Office of the Secretary of Defense within the Department of Defense of the United States of America...
      
      
      • Principal Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics
      • Deputy Under Secretary for Logistics and Materiel Readiness
      • Deputy Under Secretary for Acquisition and Technology
      • Assistant to the Secretary for Nuclear and Chemical and Biological Defense Programs
      • Director of Defense Research and Engineering
        Director of Defense Research and Engineering
        The Assistant Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering ASD is a senior official of the United States Department of Defense. The ASD and the office s/he heads are charged with the development and oversight of DoD technology strategy for the DoD. The ASD reports to the Under Secretary of...
        
        
    • Under Secretary (Comptroller) and Chief Financial Officer
      Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller)
      The Under Secretary of Defense is the Chief Financial Officer of the United States Department of Defense. The responsibilities of the Department of Defense's Chief Financial Officer include developing and implementing Department of Defense-wide financial policy, financial management systems, and...
      
      
    • Under Secretary for Intelligence
      Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence
      The Under Secretary for Intelligence or USD is a high-ranking civilian position in the Office of the Secretary of Defense within the U.S. Department of Defense that acts as the principal advisor and deputy to the Secretary and Deputy Secretary of Defense on matters relating to intelligence...
      
      
    • Under Secretary for Personnel and Readiness
      Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness
      The Under Secretary for Personnel and Readiness, or USD is a high-ranking civilian position in the Office of the Secretary of Defense within the United States Department of Defense responsible for advising the Secretary and Deputy Secretary of Defense on recruitment, career development, pay and...
      
      
      • Principal Deputy Under Secretary for Personnel and Readiness
      • Assistant Secretary for Health Affairs
      • Assistant Secretary for Reserve Affairs
    • Under Secretary for Policy
      Under Secretary of Defense for Policy
      The Under Secretary of Defense for Policy is a high level civilian official in the United States Department of Defense. The Under Secretary of Defense for Policy is the principal staff assistant and adviser to both the Secretary of Defense and the Deputy Secretary of Defense for all matters...
      
      
      • Principal Deputy Under Secretary for Policy
      • Assistant Secretary for Asian and Pacific Security Affairs
      • Assistant Secretary for Global Security Affairs
      • Assistant Secretary for Homeland Defense
      • Assistant Secretary for International Security Affairs
      • Assistant Secretary for Special Operations/Low Intensity Conflict & Interdependent Capabilities
  • Department of the Air Force
    • Secretary
      United States Secretary of the Air Force
      The Secretary of the Air Force is the Head of the Department of the Air Force, a component organization within the Department of Defense of the United States of America. The Secretary of the Air Force is appointed from civilian life by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate...
      
      
    • Under Secretary
      United States Under Secretary of the Air Force
      The Under Secretary of the Air Force is the second-highest ranking civilian official in the Department of the Air Force of the United States of America, serving directly under the Secretary of the Air Force...
      
      
    • Assistant Secretary for Acquisition
      Assistant Secretary of the Air Force (Acquisition)
      The Assistant Secretary of the Air Force is a civilian office in the United States Department of the Air Force....
      
      
    • Assistant Secretary for Financial Management and Comptroller
    • Assistant Secretary for Manpower and Reserve Affairs
    • Assistant Secretary for Installations, Environment, and Logistics
    • General Counsel
  • Department of the Army
    United States Department of the Army
    The Department of the Army is one of the three military departments within the Department of Defense of the United States of America. The Department of the Army is the Federal Government agency which the United States Army is organized within, and it is led by the Secretary of the Army who has...
    
    
    • Secretary
      United States Secretary of the Army
      The Secretary of the Army is a civilian official within the Department of Defense of the United States of America with statutory responsibility for all matters relating to the United States Army: manpower, personnel, reserve affairs, installations, environmental issues, weapons systems and...
      
      
    • Under Secretary
      United States Under Secretary of the Army
      The United States Under Secretary of the Army is the second-highest ranking civilian official of the United States Department of the Army, serving directly under the United States Secretary of the Army...
      
      
    • Assistant Secretary for Acquisition, Logistics, and Technology
      United States Assistant Secretary of the Army for Acquisition, Logistics, and Technology
      The Office of the United States Assistant Secretary of the Army for Acquisition, Logistics, and Technology is known as OASA...
      
      
    • Assistant Secretary for Civil Works
    • Assistant Secretary for Financial Management and Comptroller
    • Assistant Secretary for Installations and Environment
    • Assistant Secretary for Manpower and Reserve Affairs
    • General Counsel
  • Department of the Navy
    United States Department of the Navy
    The Department of the Navy of the United States of America was established by an Act of Congress on 30 April 1798, to provide a government organizational structure to the United States Navy and, from 1834 onwards, for the United States Marine Corps, and when directed by the President, of the...
    
    
    • Secretary
      United States Secretary of the Navy
      The Secretary of the Navy of the United States of America is the head of the Department of the Navy, a component organization of the Department of Defense...
      
      
    • Under Secretary
      Under Secretary of the Navy
      The Under Secretary of the Navy is the second-highest ranking civilian official in the United States Department of the Navy. The Under Secretary, called the "Under" in Pentagon slang, reports to the Secretary of the Navy ....
      
      
    • Assistant Secretary for Financial Management and Comptroller
    • Assistant Secretary for Installations and Environment
      Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Installations and Environment)
      The Assistant Secretary of the Navy is a civilian office in the United States Navy established in 1990...
      
      
    • Assistant Secretary for Manpower and Reserve Affairs
      Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Manpower and Reserve Affairs)
      The Assistant Secretary of the Navy is a civilian office in the United States Department of the Navy...
      
      
    • Assistant Secretary for Research, Development, and Acquisition
      Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Research, Development and Acquisitions)
      The Assistant Secretary of the Navy is a civilian office of the United States Department of the Navy...
      
      
    • General Counsel
      General Counsel of the Navy
      The General Counsel of the Department of the Navy is the senior civilian lawyer in the United States Department of the Navy and is the senior legal adviser to the Secretary of the Navy. The Office of the General Counsel of the Navy provides legal advice to the Secretary, the Under Secretary of the...
      
      
  • Joint Chiefs of Staff
    Joint Chiefs of Staff
    The Joint Chiefs of Staff is a body of senior uniformed leaders in the United States Department of Defense who advise the Secretary of Defense, the Homeland Security Council, the National Security Council and the President on military matters...
    
    
    • Chair
      Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
      The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff is by law the highest ranking military officer in the United States Armed Forces, and is the principal military adviser to the President of the United States, the National Security Council, the Homeland Security Council and the Secretary of Defense...
      
       (two-year term of office)
    • Vice Chair
      Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
      The Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff is by law the second highest ranking military officer in the United States Armed Forces ranking just below the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff...
      
       (two-year term of office)
    • Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force
      Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force
      The Chief of Staff of the Air Force is a statutory office held by a four-star general in the United States Air Force, and is the most senior uniformed officer assigned to serve in the Department of the Air Force, and as such is the principal military advisor and a deputy to the Secretary of the...
      
       (four-year term of office)
    • Chief of Staff of the United States Army
      Chief of Staff of the United States Army
      The Chief of Staff of the Army is a statutory office held by a four-star general in the United States Army, and is the most senior uniformed officer assigned to serve in the Department of the Army, and as such is the principal military advisor and a deputy to the Secretary of the Army; and is in...
      
       (four-year term of office)
    • Chief of Naval Operations
      Chief of Naval Operations
      The Chief of Naval Operations is a statutory office held by a four-star admiral in the United States Navy, and is the most senior uniformed officer assigned to serve in the Department of the Navy. The office is a military adviser and deputy to the Secretary of the Navy...
      
       (four-year term of office)
    • Commandant of the Marine Corps
      Commandant of the Marine Corps
      The Commandant of the Marine Corps is normally the highest ranking officer in the United States Marine Corps and is a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff...
      
       (four-year term of office)
• Department of Energy
  United States Department of Energy
  The United States Department of Energy is a Cabinet-level department of the United States government concerned with the United States' policies regarding energy and safety in handling nuclear material...
  
  
  • Under Secretary of Energy for Nuclear Security
    Under Secretary of Energy for Nuclear Security
    The Under Secretary for Nuclear Security, in the United States Department of Energy, is the Administrator for the National Nuclear Security Administration. The National Nuclear Security Administration's responsibilities include designing, producing, and maintaining safe, secure and reliable nuclear...
    
    /Administrator of the National Nuclear Security Administration
    National Nuclear Security Administration
    The United States National Nuclear Security Administration is part of the United States Department of Energy. It works to improve national security through the military application of nuclear energy...
    
    
  • Principal Deputy Administrator - National Nuclear Security Administration
  • Deputy Administrator for Defense Programs - National Nuclear Security Administration
  • Deputy Administrator for Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation - National Nuclear Security Administration
  • Assistant Secretary for Environmental Management

• Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board
  Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board
  The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board is an independent agency of the United States government based in Washington, D.C. Established in 1988, the DNFSB oversees the nuclear weapons complex administered by the U.S. Department of Energy. The DNFSB is independent of the Department of Energy...
  
   (political balance required)
  • Member - five positions (five-year terms of office)

• Selective Service System
  Selective Service System
  The Selective Service System is a means by which the United States government maintains information on those potentially subject to military conscription. Most male U.S. citizens and male immigrant non-citizens between the ages of 18 and 25 are required by law to have registered within 30 days of...
  
  
  • Director

• United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces
  United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces
  The United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces or CAAF is an Article I court that exercises worldwide appellate jurisdiction over members of the United States armed forces on active duty and other persons subject to the Uniform Code of Military Justice...
  
   (political balance required)
  • Judge - five positions (15-year terms of office)

• National Security Education Board
  National Security Education Program
  The National Security Education Program is a U.S. federal government initiative in which U.S. citizens are given funding and training in critical languages "to serve the needs of U.S. national security and national competitiveness." Some funding comes in exchange for a commitment to U.S. federal...
  
  
  • Member - six (of 13 total) positions (terms of office not to exceed four years)

• Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
  Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
  The Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences is a health science university run by the U.S. federal government. The primary mission of the school is to prepare graduates for service to the U.S. at home and abroad in the medical corps....
  
  , Board of Regents
  • Member - nine positions (six-year terms of office)

• Military Officers (commissions and promotions) - Officers receive a commission assigning them to the officer corps from the President (with the consent
  Advice and consent
  Advice and consent is an English phrase frequently used in enacting formulae of bills and in other legal or constitutional contexts, describing a situation in which the executive branch of a government enacts something previously approved of by the legislative branch.-General:The expression is...
  
   of the Senate
  United States Senate
  The United States Senate is the upper house of the bicameral legislature of the United States, and together with the United States House of Representatives comprises the United States Congress. The composition and powers of the Senate are established in Article One of the U.S. Constitution. Each...
  
  ). Promotions of all commissioned military officers are also commissioned by the President (with the consent
  Advice and consent
  Advice and consent is an English phrase frequently used in enacting formulae of bills and in other legal or constitutional contexts, describing a situation in which the executive branch of a government enacts something previously approved of by the legislative branch.-General:The expression is...
  
   of the Senate
  United States Senate
  The United States Senate is the upper house of the bicameral legislature of the United States, and together with the United States House of Representatives comprises the United States Congress. The composition and powers of the Senate are established in Article One of the U.S. Constitution. Each...
  
  ).

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs

• Department of Commerce
  United States Department of Commerce
  The United States Department of Commerce is the Cabinet department of the United States government concerned with promoting economic growth. It was originally created as the United States Department of Commerce and Labor on February 14, 1903...
  
  
  • Under Secretary for Export Administration
  • Under Secretary for International Trade
    Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade
    The Under Secretary for International Trade is a position within the United States Department of Commerce that leads the International Trade Administration. The Under Secretary also serves as a member of the Tourism Policy Council and the National Intellectual Property Council. The Under Secretary...
    
    
  • Assistant Secretary for Export Administration
  • Assistant Secretary for Export Enforcement
  • Assistant Secretary for Trade Promotion/Director General of the U.S. and Foreign Commercial Service
    United States Commercial Service
    The United States Commercial Service is the trade promotion arm of the U.S. Department of Commerce's International Trade Administration, which helps U.S. companies succeed in markets around the world. Led by Assistant Secretary of Commerce and Director General Suresh Kumar and located across the...
    
    

• Department of Housing and Urban Development
  United States Department of Housing and Urban Development
  The United States Department of Housing and Urban Development, also known as HUD, is a Cabinet department in the Executive branch of the United States federal government...
  
  
  • Secretary
    United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
    The United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development is the head of the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development, a member of the President's Cabinet, and thirteenth in the Presidential line of succession. The post was created with the formation of the Department of Housing...
    
    
  • Deputy Secretary
  • Assistant Secretary for Administration
  • Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development
  • Assistant Secretary for Congressional and Intergovernmental Relations
  • Assistant Secretary for Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity
  • Assistant Secretary for Housing/Federal Housing Commissioner
  • Assistant Secretary for Policy Development and Research
  • Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs
  • Assistant Secretary for Public and Indian Housing
  • Chief Financial Officer
  • Director - Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight
    Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight
    The Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight was an agency within the Department of Housing and Urban Development. It was charged with ensuring the capital adequacy and financial safety and soundness of two government sponsored enterprises—the Federal National Mortgage Association and the...
    
     (five-year term)
  • General Counsel
  • Inspector General
  • President - Government National Mortgage Association
    Government National Mortgage Association
    The Government National Mortgage Association , or Ginnie Mae, was established in the United States in 1968 to promote home ownership. As a wholly owned government corporation within the Department of Housing and Urban Development , Ginnie Mae’s mission is to expand affordable housing in the U.S. by...
    
     (Ginnie Mae)

• Department of Transportation
  United States Department of Transportation
  The United States Department of Transportation is a federal Cabinet department of the United States government concerned with transportation. It was established by an act of Congress on October 15, 1966, and began operation on April 1, 1967...
  
  
  • Administrator - Federal Transit Administration
    Federal Transit Administration
    The Federal Transit Administration is an agency within the United States Department of Transportation that provides financial and technical assistance to local public transit systems. The FTA is one of ten modal administrations within the DOT...
    
    

• Department of the Treasury
  United States Department of the Treasury
  The Department of the Treasury is an executive department and the treasury of the United States federal government. It was established by an Act of Congress in 1789 to manage government revenue...
  
  
  • Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence
  • Assistant Secretary for Financial Institutions
  • Assistant Secretary for Terrorist Financing
  • Comptroller of the Currency
    Office of the Comptroller of the Currency
    The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency is a US federal agency established by the National Currency Act of 1863 and serves to charter, regulate, and supervise all national banks and the federal branches and agencies of foreign banks in the United States...
    
     (five-year term of office)
  • Director of the Mint
    United States Mint
    The United States Mint primarily produces circulating coinage for the United States to conduct its trade and commerce. The Mint was created by Congress with the Coinage Act of 1792, and placed within the Department of State...
    
     (five-year term of office)
  • Director - Office of Thrift Supervision
    Office of Thrift Supervision
    The Office of Thrift Supervision was a United States federal agency under the Department of the Treasury that charters, supervises, and regulates all federally- and state-chartered savings banks and savings and loans associations. It was created in 1989 as a renamed version of another federal agency...
    
     (five-year term of office)

• Community Development Financial Institutions Fund
  Community Development Financial Institutions Fund
  The Community Development Financial Institutions Fund, or CDFI Fund, promotes economic revitalization in distressed communities throughout the United States by providing financial assistance and information to community development financial institutions...
  
  
  • Administrator

• Council of Economic Advisers
  Council of Economic Advisers
  The Council of Economic Advisers is an agency within the Executive Office of the President that advises the President of the United States on economic policy...
  
   (Executive Office of the President)
  • Member - three positions

• Export-Import Bank of the United States
  Export-Import Bank of the United States
  The Export-Import Bank of the United States is the official export credit agency of the United States federal government. It was established in 1934 by an executive order, and made an independent agency in the Executive branch by Congress in 1945, for the purposes of financing and insuring...
  
   (political balance required)
  • Member - five positions (four-year terms of office — Chair, who first must be confirmed as a member, also needs to be confirmed.)
  • Inspector General

• Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
  Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
  The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation is a United States government corporation created by the Glass–Steagall Act of 1933. It provides deposit insurance, which guarantees the safety of deposits in member banks, currently up to $250,000 per depositor per bank. , the FDIC insures deposits at...
  
   (political balance required)
  • Member - three positions (six-year terms of office — Chair and vice chair, who first must be confirmed as members, also need to be confirmed.)
  • Inspector General

• Federal Housing Finance Board
  Federal Housing Finance Board
  The Federal Housing Finance Board was an independent agency of the United States government established in 1989 in the aftermath of the savings and loan crisis to take over oversight of the Federal Home Loan Banks , and was superseded by the Federal Housing Finance Agency in 2008.The FHFB...
  
   (political balance required)
  • Member - four positions (seven-year terms of office)

• Federal Reserve System
  Federal Reserve System
  The Federal Reserve System is the central banking system of the United States. It was created on December 23, 1913 with the enactment of the Federal Reserve Act, largely in response to a series of financial panics, particularly a severe panic in 1907...
  
  , Board of Governors
  • Governor - seven positions (14-year terms of office — Chair and vice chair, who first must be confirmed as governors, also need to be confirmed for four-year terms in those offices.)

• National Credit Union Administration
  National Credit Union Administration
  The National Credit Union Administration is the United States independent federal agency that supervises and charters federal credit unions...
  
   (political balance required)
  • Member - three positions (six-year terms of office)

• Securities and Exchange Commission (political balance required)
  • Commissioner - five positions (five-year terms of office)

• National Consumer Cooperative Bank, Board of Directors
  • Member - three (of 15 total) positions (three-year terms of office)

• National Institute of Building Sciences
  National Institute of Building Sciences
  The National Institute of Building Sciences is a non-profit, non-governmental organization that successfully brings together representatives of government, the professions, industry, labor and consumer interests, and regulatory agencies to focus on the identification and resolution of problems and...
  
  , Board of Directors
  • Member - 15 to 21 positions (three-year terms of office)

• Securities Investor Protection Corporation
  Securities Investor Protection Corporation
  The Securities Investor Protection Corporation is a federally mandated, non-profit, member-funded, corporation in the United States. It protects investors in certain securities from financial harm if a broker-dealer fails...
  
  , Board of Directors
  • Director - five (of seven total) positions (three-year terms of office)

Committee on the Budget

• Office of Management and Budget (Executive Office of the President)
  • Director
  • Deputy Director

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation

• Department of Commerce
  United States Department of Commerce
  The United States Department of Commerce is the Cabinet department of the United States government concerned with promoting economic growth. It was originally created as the United States Department of Commerce and Labor on February 14, 1903...
  
  
  • Secretary of Commerce
    United States Secretary of Commerce
    The United States Secretary of Commerce is the head of the United States Department of Commerce concerned with business and industry; the Department states its mission to be "to foster, promote, and develop the foreign and domestic commerce"...
    
    
  • Deputy Secretary
    United States Deputy Secretary of Commerce
    The Deputy Secretary of Commerce is a high ranking position within the United States Department of Commerce. It was createdon December 13, 1979 when President Jimmy Carter sent a letter to the U.S. Senate and nominated Luther H. Hodges, Jr., who then currently held the title of Under Secretary of...
    
    
  • Under Secretary for Economic Affairs
    Under Secretary of Commerce for Economic Affairs
    The Under Secretary for Economic Affairs is a high-ranking official in the United States Department of Commerce that serves as the principal economic adviser to the United States Secretary of Commerce. The Under Secretary is ex officio the Administrator of the Economics and Statistics Administration...
    
    
  • Under Secretary for Oceans and Atmosphere
    Under Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere
    The Under Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere is the Administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The Under Secretary oversees the day-to-day functions of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, as well as laying out its strategic and operational...
    
    /Administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
    National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
    The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration , pronounced , like "noah", is a scientific agency within the United States Department of Commerce focused on the conditions of the oceans and the atmosphere...
    
    
  • Under Secretary for Technology
  • Assistant Secretary for Administration/Chief Financial Officer
  • Assistant Secretary for Communications and Information
  • Assistant Secretary for Legislative and Intergovernmental Affairs
  • Assistant Secretary for Manufacturing and Services
  • Assistant Secretary for Oceans and Atmosphere/Deputy Administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
  • Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy
  • Assistant Secretary for Trade Promotion/Director General of the U.S. and Foreign Commercial Service
  • Chief Scientist - National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
  • Director - National Institute of Standards and Technology
  • General Counsel
  • Inspector General
  • Officer Corps - National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

• Department of Homeland Security
  United States Department of Homeland Security
  The United States Department of Homeland Security is a cabinet department of the United States federal government, created in response to the September 11 attacks, and with the primary responsibilities of protecting the territory of the United States and protectorates from and responding to...
  
  
  • Under Secretary for Science and Technology
    Under Secretary of Homeland Security for Science and Technology
    The Science and Technology Directorate is the research and development arm of the United States Department of Homeland Security.-Leadership:The Science and Technology Directorate is led by the Under Secretary for Science and Technology...
    
    
  • Assistant Secretary/Administrator of the Transportation Security Administration
    Transportation Security Administration
    The Transportation Security Administration is an agency of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security that exercises authority over the safety and security of the traveling public in the United States....
    
    
  • Commandant of the Coast Guard
    Commandant of the Coast Guard
    The Commandant of the United States Coast Guard is the highest ranking member of the United States Coast Guard. The Commandant is normally the only four-star Admiral in the Coast Guard and is appointed for a four-year term by the President of the United States upon confirmation by the United...
    
    
  • United States Coast Guard
    United States Coast Guard
    The United States Coast Guard is a branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the seven U.S. uniformed services. The Coast Guard is a maritime, military, multi-mission service unique among the military branches for having a maritime law enforcement mission and a federal regulatory agency...
    
     officers (commissions and promotions)

• Department of Transportation
  United States Department of Transportation
  The United States Department of Transportation is a federal Cabinet department of the United States government concerned with transportation. It was established by an act of Congress on October 15, 1966, and began operation on April 1, 1967...
  
  
  • Secretary
    United States Secretary of Transportation
    The United States Secretary of Transportation is the head of the United States Department of Transportation, a member of the President's Cabinet, and fourteenth in the Presidential line of succession. The post was created with the formation of the Department of Transportation on October 15, 1966,...
    
    
  • Deputy Secretary
    United States Deputy Secretary of Transportation
    The Deputy Secretary of Transportation, in the United States government, advises and assists the Secretary of Transportation in the supervision and direction of the Department of Transporatation . The Deputy Secretary would succeed the Secretary in his absence, sickness, or unavailability.The...
    
    
  • Under Secretary for Policy
  • Assistant Secretary for Aviation and International Affairs
    Assistant Secretary of Transportation for Aviation and International Affairs
    The Assistant Secretary for Aviation and International Affairs is the head of the Office of Aviation and International Affairs within the United States Department of Transportation. The Assistant Secretary has responsibility for licensing of U.S. and foreign airlines and for formulating U.S....
    
    
  • Assistant Secretary for Budget and Programs and Chief Financial Officer
  • Assistant Secretary for Governmental Affairs
  • Assistant Secretary for Transportation Policy
  • Administrator - Federal Aviation Administration
    Federal Aviation Administration
    The Federal Aviation Administration is the national aviation authority of the United States. An agency of the United States Department of Transportation, it has authority to regulate and oversee all aspects of civil aviation in the U.S...
    
     (five-year term of office)
  • Administrator - Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration
    Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration
    The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration , established January 1, 2000, regulates the trucking industry in the United States. FMCSA is headquartered in Washington, DC and employs more than 1,000 people in all 50 States and the District of Columbia...
    
    
  • Administrator - Federal Railroad Administration
    Federal Railroad Administration
    The Federal Railroad Administration is an agency in the United States Department of Transportation. The agency was created by the Department of Transportation Act of 1966...
    
    
  • Administrator - Maritime Administration
  • Administrator - National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
    National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
    The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is an agency of the Executive Branch of the U.S. government, part of the Department of Transportation...
    
    
  • Administrator - Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration
    Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration
    The Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration was created under the Norman Y. Mineta Research and Special Programs Improvement Act of 2004. United States president George W. Bush signed the legislation into law on November 30, 2004...
    
    
  • Administrator - Research and Innovative Technology Administration
    Research and Innovative Technology Administration
    The Research and Innovative Technology Administration is a unit of the United States Department of Transportation . It was created in 2005 to advance transportation science, technology, and analysis, and to improve the coordination of transportation research within the Department and throughout...
    
    
  • Administrator - Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation
    Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation
    The Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation is an agency of the United States Department of Transportation. The SLSDC is responsible for the safe and efficient movement of marine traffic through the U.S.-owned and operated facilities of the Saint Lawrence Seaway, which consists of 2 of the...
    
     (seven-year term of office)
  • Deputy Administrator - Federal Aviation Administration
    Federal Aviation Administration
    The Federal Aviation Administration is the national aviation authority of the United States. An agency of the United States Department of Transportation, it has authority to regulate and oversee all aspects of civil aviation in the U.S...
    
    
  • General Counsel
  • Inspector General

• Consumer Product Safety Commission
  Consumer Product Safety Commission
  The United States Consumer Product Safety Commission is an independent agency of the United States government created in 1972 through the Consumer Product Safety Act to protect "against unreasonable risks of injuries associated with consumer products." The CPSC is an independent agency that does...
  
   (political balance required)
  • Commissioner - five positions (seven-year terms of office - Only three of the positions have been funded and filled since the mid-1980s; chair, who first must be confirmed as a member, also needs to be confirmed.)

• Federal Communications Commission
  Federal Communications Commission
  The Federal Communications Commission is an independent agency of the United States government, created, Congressional statute , and with the majority of its commissioners appointed by the current President. The FCC works towards six goals in the areas of broadband, competition, the spectrum, the...
  
   (political balance required)
  • Commissioner - five positions (five-year terms of office)

• Federal Maritime Commission
  Federal Maritime Commission
  The United States Federal Maritime Commission is an independent federal agency, based in Washington D.C., responsible for the regulation of oceanborne transportation in the foreign commerce of the U.S.-Mission:The FMC:...
  
   (political balance required)
  • Commissioner - five positions (five-year terms of office)

• Federal Trade Commission
  Federal Trade Commission
  The Federal Trade Commission is an independent agency of the United States government, established in 1914 by the Federal Trade Commission Act...
  
   (political balance required)
• Commissioner - five positions (seven-year terms of office)

• National Aeronautics and Space Administration
  • Administrator
  • Deputy Administrator
  • Chief Financial Officer
  • Inspector General

• National Transportation Safety Board
  National Transportation Safety Board
  The National Transportation Safety Board is an independent U.S. government investigative agency responsible for civil transportation accident investigation. In this role, the NTSB investigates and reports on aviation accidents and incidents, certain types of highway crashes, ship and marine...
  
   (political balance required)
  • Member - five positions (five-year terms of office - Chair, who first must be confirmed as a member, also needs to be confirmed.)

• Office of Science and Technology Policy
  Office of Science and Technology Policy
  The Office of Science and Technology Policy is an office in the Executive Office of the President , established by Congress on May 11, 1976, with a broad mandate to advise the President on the effects of science and technology on domestic and international affairs.The director of this office is...
  
   (Executive Office of the President)
  • Director
  • Associate Director - Science
  • Associate Director - Technology
  • Associate Director
  • Associate Director

• Office of the Federal Coordinator for Alaska Natural Gas Transportation Projects
  • Federal Coordinator

• Surface Transportation Board
  Surface Transportation Board
  The Surface Transportation Board of the United States is a bipartisan, decisionally-independent adjudicatory body organizationally housed within the U.S. Department of Transportation. The STB was established in 1996 to assume some of the regulatory functions that had been administered by the...
  
   (political balance required)
  • Member - three positions (five-year terms of office)

• Corporation for Public Broadcasting
  Corporation for Public Broadcasting
  The Corporation for Public Broadcasting is a non-profit corporation created by an act of the United States Congress, funded by the United States’ federal government to promote public broadcasting...
  
   Board of Directors (political balance required)
  • Member — nine positions (six-year terms of office)

• Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority
  Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority
  Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority is an independent airport authority, created by the Commonwealth of Virginia and the District of Columbia with the consent of the United States Congress to oversee management, operations, and capital development of Washington, D.C.'s two major airports:...
  
   Board of Directors
  • Member - three positions (six-year terms of office; political balance required)

• Reform Board (AMTRAK
  Amtrak
  The National Railroad Passenger Corporation, doing business as Amtrak , is a government-owned corporation that was organized on May 1, 1971, to provide intercity passenger train service in the United States. "Amtrak" is a portmanteau of the words "America" and "track". It is headquartered at Union...
  
  )
  • Member - seven positions (five-year terms of office)

• Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation
  Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation
  The Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation is an agency of the United States Department of Transportation. The SLSDC is responsible for the safe and efficient movement of marine traffic through the U.S.-owned and operated facilities of the Saint Lawrence Seaway, which consists of 2 of the...
  
   Advisory Board (political balance required)
  • Member - five positions (indefinite terms of office)

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources

• Department of Energy
  United States Department of Energy
  The United States Department of Energy is a Cabinet-level department of the United States government concerned with the United States' policies regarding energy and safety in handling nuclear material...
  
  
  • Secretary
    United States Secretary of Energy
    The United States Secretary of Energy is the head of the United States Department of Energy, a member of the President's Cabinet, and fifteenth in the presidential line of succession. The position was formed on October 1, 1977 with the creation of the Department of Energy when President Jimmy...
    
    
  • Deputy Secretary
  • Under Secretary for Energy and Environment
    Under Secretary of Energy for Energy and Environment
    The Under Secretary for Energy and Environment, also known as the Under Secretary of Energy, is a position within the United States Department of Energy...
    
    
  • Under Secretary for Science
  • Administrator - Energy Information Administration
    Energy Information Administration
    The U.S. Energy Information Administration is the statistical and analytical agency within the U.S. Department of Energy. EIA collects, analyzes, and disseminates independent and impartial energy information to promote sound policymaking, efficient markets, and public understanding of energy and...
    
    
  • Assistant Secretary for Congressional and Intergovernmental Affairs
  • Assistant Secretary for Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability
  • Assistant Secretary for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy
  • Assistant Secretary for Environmental Management
  • Assistant Secretary for Fossil Energy
  • Assistant Secretary for International Affairs and Domestic Policy
  • Assistant Secretary for Nuclear Energy
  • Chief Financial Officer
  • Director - Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management
  • Director - Office of Economic Impact and Diversity
  • Director - Office of Science
    Office of Science
    The Office of Science is a component of the United States Department of Energy . The Office of Science is the lead federal agency supporting fundamental scientific research for energy and the Nation’s largest supporter of basic research in the physical sciences...
    
    
  • General Counsel
  • Inspector General

• Department of the Interior
  United States Department of the Interior
  The United States Department of the Interior is the United States federal executive department of the U.S. government responsible for the management and conservation of most federal land and natural resources, and the administration of programs relating to Native Americans, Alaska Natives, Native...
  
  
  • Secretary
    United States Secretary of the Interior
    The United States Secretary of the Interior is the head of the United States Department of the Interior.The US Department of the Interior should not be confused with the concept of Ministries of the Interior as used in other countries...
    
    
  • Deputy Secretary
    United States Deputy Secretary of the Interior
    The Deputy Secretary of the Interior, in the United States government, advises and assists the Secretary of the Interior in the supervision and direction of the Department of the Interior and its activities, and succeeds the Secretary in his or her absence, sickness, or unavailability. The Deputy...
    
    
  • Assistant Secretary for Fish, Wildlife and Parks
  • Assistant Secretary for Land and Minerals Management
  • Assistant Secretary for Policy, Management, and Budget and Chief Financial Officer
  • Assistant Secretary for Water and Science
  • Commissioner - Bureau of Reclamation
  • Director - Bureau of Land Management
    Bureau of Land Management
    The Bureau of Land Management is an agency within the United States Department of the Interior which administers America's public lands, totaling approximately , or one-eighth of the landmass of the country. The BLM also manages of subsurface mineral estate underlying federal, state and private...
    
    
  • Director - National Park Service
    National Park Service
    The National Park Service is the U.S. federal agency that manages all national parks, many national monuments, and other conservation and historical properties with various title designations...
    
    
  • Director - Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement
  • Director - United States Geological Survey
    United States Geological Survey
    The United States Geological Survey is a scientific agency of the United States government. The scientists of the USGS study the landscape of the United States, its natural resources, and the natural hazards that threaten it. The organization has four major science disciplines, concerning biology,...
    
    
  • Inspector General
  • Solicitor

• Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
  Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
  The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission is the United States federal agency with jurisdiction over interstate electricity sales, wholesale electric rates, hydroelectric licensing, natural gas pricing, and oil pipeline rates...
  
   (political balance required)
  • Commissioner - five positions (five-year terms of office)

• Office of the Federal Coordinator for Alaska Natural Gas Transportation Projects
  • Federal Coordinator

Committee on Environment and Public Works

• Department of Commerce
  United States Department of Commerce
  The United States Department of Commerce is the Cabinet department of the United States government concerned with promoting economic growth. It was originally created as the United States Department of Commerce and Labor on February 14, 1903...
  
  
  • Assistant Secretary for Economic Development

• Department of Defense
  United States Department of Defense
  The United States Department of Defense is the U.S...
  
  
  • Assistant Secretary of the Army (Civil Works)

• Department of the Interior
  United States Department of the Interior
  The United States Department of the Interior is the United States federal executive department of the U.S. government responsible for the management and conservation of most federal land and natural resources, and the administration of programs relating to Native Americans, Alaska Natives, Native...
  
  
  • Assistant Secretary for Fish, Wildlife and Parks
  • Director - United States Fish and Wildlife Service
    United States Fish and Wildlife Service
    The United States Fish and Wildlife Service is a federal government agency within the United States Department of the Interior dedicated to the management of fish, wildlife, and natural habitats...
    
    

• Department of Transportation
  United States Department of Transportation
  The United States Department of Transportation is a federal Cabinet department of the United States government concerned with transportation. It was established by an act of Congress on October 15, 1966, and began operation on April 1, 1967...
  
  
  • Administrator - Federal Highway Administration
    Federal Highway Administration
    The Federal Highway Administration is a division of the United States Department of Transportation that specializes in highway transportation. The agency's major activities are grouped into two "programs," the Federal-aid Highway Program and the Federal Lands Highway Program...
    
    

• Appalachian Regional Commission
  Appalachian Regional Commission
  The Appalachian Regional Commission is a United States federal-state partnership that works with the people of Appalachia to create opportunities for self-sustaining economic development and improved quality of life...
  
  
  • Federal Cochair
  • Alternate Federal Cochair

• Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board
  • Member - five positions (five-year terms of office - Chair, who first must be confirmed as a member, also needs to be confirmed.)

• Council on Environmental Quality
  Council on Environmental Quality
  The Council on Environmental Quality is a division of the Executive Office of the President that coordinates federal environmental efforts in the United States and works closely with agencies and other White House offices in the development of environmental and energy policies and initiatives...
  
   (Executive Office of the President)
  • Chair

• Delta Regional Authority
  Delta Regional Authority
  The Delta Regional Authority is a Federal-State partnership whose mission it is to improve the quality of life for the residents of the Mississippi River Delta Region. The Delta Regional Authority serves 252 counties and parishes in parts of eight states: Alabama, Arkansas, Illinois, Kentucky,...
  
  
  • Federal Cochair

• Environmental Protection Agency
  United States Environmental Protection Agency
  The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is an agency of the federal government of the United States charged with protecting human health and the environment, by writing and enforcing regulations based on laws passed by Congress...
  
  
  • Administrator
    Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency
    The Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency is the head of the United States federal government's Environmental Protection Agency, and is thus responsible for enforcing the nation's Clean Air and Clean Water Acts, as well as numerous other environmental statutes. The Administrator is...
    
    
  • Deputy Administrator
  • Assistant Administrator
  • Assistant Administrator for Administration and Resources Management
  • Assistant Administrator for Air and Radiation
  • Assistant Administrator for Enforcement and Compliance Assurance
  • Assistant Administrator for Environmental Information
  • Assistant Administrator for International Affairs
  • Assistant Administrator for Prevention, Pesticides, and Toxic Substances
  • Assistant Administrator for Research and Development
  • Assistant Administrator for Solid Waste and Emergency Response
  • Assistant Administrator for Water
  • Chief Financial Officer
  • General Counsel
  • Inspector General

• Nuclear Regulatory Commission
  Nuclear Regulatory Commission
  The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is an independent agency of the United States government that was established by the Energy Reorganization Act of 1974 from the United States Atomic Energy Commission, and was first opened January 19, 1975...
  
   (political balance required)
  • Commissioner - five positions (five-year terms of office)
  • Inspector General

• Tennessee Valley Authority
  Tennessee Valley Authority
  The Tennessee Valley Authority is a federally owned corporation in the United States created by congressional charter in May 1933 to provide navigation, flood control, electricity generation, fertilizer manufacturing, and economic development in the Tennessee Valley, a region particularly affected...
  
  , Board of Directors
  • Member - nine positions (five-year terms of office)
  • Inspector General

• Morris K. Udall Scholarship and Excellence in National Environmental Policy Foundation
  Morris K. Udall Foundation
  The Morris K. Udall and Stewart L. Udall Foundation is an Executive Branch office of the United States Government. The Foundation was established by the Congress in 1992 to honor Morris Udall’s thirty years of service in the House of Representatives. Congress amended the name in 2009 to include...
  
  , Board of Trustees (political balance required)
  • Member - nine positions (six-year terms of office)

• Mississippi River Commission
  • Commissioner - four positions (indefinite terms of office)
  • Commissioner - three positions (nine-year terms of office)

Committee on Finance

• Department of Commerce
  United States Department of Commerce
  The United States Department of Commerce is the Cabinet department of the United States government concerned with promoting economic growth. It was originally created as the United States Department of Commerce and Labor on February 14, 1903...
  
  
  • Under Secretary for International Trade
    Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade
    The Under Secretary for International Trade is a position within the United States Department of Commerce that leads the International Trade Administration. The Under Secretary also serves as a member of the Tourism Policy Council and the National Intellectual Property Council. The Under Secretary...
    
    
  • Assistant Secretary for Import Administration
  • Assistant Secretary for Market Access and Compliance

• Department of Health and Human Services
  United States Department of Health and Human Services
  The United States Department of Health and Human Services is a Cabinet department of the United States government with the goal of protecting the health of all Americans and providing essential human services. Its motto is "Improving the health, safety, and well-being of America"...
  
  
  • Secretary
    United States Secretary of Health and Human Services
    The United States Secretary of Health and Human Services is the head of the United States Department of Health and Human Services, concerned with health matters. The Secretary is a member of the President's Cabinet...
    
    
  • Deputy Secretary
    United States Deputy Secretary of Health and Human Services
    The Deputy Secretary of Health and Human Services is the chief operating officer of the United States Department of Health and Human Services...
    
    
  • Administrator - Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
    Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
    The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services , previously known as the Health Care Financing Administration , is a federal agency within the United States Department of Health and Human Services that administers the Medicare program and works in partnership with state governments to administer...
    
    
  • Assistant Secretary for Resources and Technology
  • Chief financial officer
  • Assistant Secretary for Children and Families
  • Assistant Secretary for Legislation
  • Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation
  • Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs
  • Commissioner - Children, Youth, and Families
  • General Counsel
  • Inspector General

• Department of Homeland Security
  United States Department of Homeland Security
  The United States Department of Homeland Security is a cabinet department of the United States federal government, created in response to the September 11 attacks, and with the primary responsibilities of protecting the territory of the United States and protectorates from and responding to...
  
  
  • Commissioner - U.S. Customs and Border Protection
    U.S. Customs and Border Protection
    U.S. Customs and Border Protection is a federal law enforcement agency of the United States Department of Homeland Security charged with regulating and facilitating international trade, collecting import duties, and enforcing U.S. regulations, including trade, customs and immigration. CBP is the...
    
    

• Department of the Treasury
  United States Department of the Treasury
  The Department of the Treasury is an executive department and the treasury of the United States federal government. It was established by an Act of Congress in 1789 to manage government revenue...
  
  
  • Secretary
    United States Secretary of the Treasury
    The Secretary of the Treasury of the United States is the head of the United States Department of the Treasury, which is concerned with financial and monetary matters, and, until 2003, also with some issues of national security and defense. This position in the Federal Government of the United...
    
    
  • Deputy Secretary
    United States Deputy Secretary of the Treasury
    The Deputy Secretary of the Treasury, in the United States government, advises and assists the Secretary of the Treasury in the supervision and direction of the Department of the Treasury and its activities, and succeeds the Secretary in his absence, sickness, or unavailability...
    
    
  • Under Secretary for Domestic Finance
  • Under Secretary for International Affairs
  • Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence
  • Assistant Secretary for Economic Policy
  • Assistant Secretary for Financial Markets
  • Assistant Secretary (Deputy Under Secretary) for International Affairs
  • Assistant Secretary (Deputy Under Secretary) for Legislative Affairs
  • Assistant Secretary for Management and Chief Financial Officer
  • Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs
  • Director — Policy Planning
  • Assistant Secretary for Tax Policy
  • Chief Counsel - Internal Revenue Service
    Internal Revenue Service
    The Internal Revenue Service is the revenue service of the United States federal government. The agency is a bureau of the Department of the Treasury, and is under the immediate direction of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue...
    
    /Assistant General Counsel for Tax
  • Commissioner of Internal Revenue
    Commissioner of Internal Revenue
    The Commissioner of Internal Revenue is the head of the Internal Revenue Service , a bureau within the United States Department of the Treasury.The office of Commissioner was created by Congress by the Revenue Act of 1862...
    
     (five-year terms of office)
  • General Counsel
  • Inspector General
  • Inspector General - Tax Administration
  • Treasurer of the United States
    Treasurer of the United States
    The Treasurer of the United States is an official in the United States Department of the Treasury that was originally charged with the receipt and custody of government funds, though many of these functions have been taken over by different bureaus of the Department of the Treasury...
    
    

• Office of the United States Trade Representative
  Office of the United States Trade Representative
  The Office of the United States Trade Representative is the United States government agency responsible for developing and recommending United States trade policy to the president of the United States, conducting trade negotiations at bilateral and multilateral levels, and coordinating trade...
  
   (Executive Office of the President)
  • U.S. Trade Representative
  • Deputy U.S. Trade Representative
  • Deputy U.S. Trade Representative
  • Deputy U.S. Trade Representative
  • Chief Agricultural Negotiator

• Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation
  Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation
  The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation is an independent agency of the United States government that was created by the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 to encourage the continuation and maintenance of voluntary private defined benefit pension plans, provide timely and...
  
  
  • Director

• Social Security Administration
  Social Security Administration
  The United States Social Security Administration is an independent agency of the United States federal government that administers Social Security, a social insurance program consisting of retirement, disability, and survivors' benefits...
  
  
  • Commissioner (six-year term of office)
  • Deputy Commissioner (six-year term of office)
  • Inspector General

• United States International Trade Commission
  United States International Trade Commission
  The United States International Trade Commission is an independent, bi-partisan, quasi-judicial, federal agency of the United States that provides trade expertise to both the legislative and executive branches. Further, the agency determines the impact of imports on U.S...
  
   (political balance required)
  • Commissioner - six positions (nine-year terms of office)

• United States Tax Court
  United States Tax Court
  The United States Tax Court is a federal trial court of record established by Congress under Article I of the U.S. Constitution, section 8 of which provides that the Congress has the power to "constitute Tribunals inferior to the supreme Court"...
  
  
  • Judge - 19 positions (15-year terms of office)

• Federal Hospital Insurance Trust Fund, Board of Trustees (political balance required)
  • Member - two (of six total) positions (four-year terms of office)

• Federal Old-Age and Survivors Trust Fund and the Disability Insurance Trust Fund, Board of Trustees (political balance required)
  • Member - two (of six total) positions (four-year terms of office)

• Federal Supplementary Medical Insurance Trust Fund, Board of Trustees (political balance required)
  • Member - two (of six total) positions (four-year terms of office)

• Internal Revenue Service Oversight Board
  • Member - six (of nine total) positions (five-year terms of office)

• Social Security Advisory Board (political balance required)
  • Member - three (of seven total) positions (six-year terms of office)

Committee on Foreign Relations

• Department of State
  United States Department of State
  The United States Department of State , is the United States federal executive department responsible for international relations of the United States, equivalent to the foreign ministries of other countries...
  
  
  • Secretary
    United States Secretary of State
    The United States Secretary of State is the head of the United States Department of State, concerned with foreign affairs. The Secretary is a member of the Cabinet and the highest-ranking cabinet secretary both in line of succession and order of precedence...
    
    
  • Deputy Secretary
    United States Deputy Secretary of State
    The Deputy Secretary of State of the United States is the chief assistant to the Secretary of State. If the Secretary of State resigns or dies, the Deputy Secretary of State becomes Acting Secretary of State until the President nominates and the Senate confirms a replacement. The position was...
    
    
  • Deputy Secretary for Management and Resources
  • Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security Affairs
    Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security Affairs
    The Under Secretary for Arms Control and International Security Affairs is a position within the U.S. Department of State that serves as Senior Adviser to the President and the Secretary of State for Arms Control, Nonproliferation, and Disarmament...
    
    
  • Under Secretary of State for Democracy and Global Affairs
  • Under Secretary of State for Economic, Business, and Agricultural Affairs
  • Under Secretary for Management
  • Under Secretary for Political Affairs
  • Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs
  • Assistant Secretary for Administration
  • Assistant Secretary for African Affairs
  • Assistant Secretary for Consular Affairs
    Assistant Secretary of State for Consular Affairs
    The Assistant Secretary of State for Consular Affairs is the head of the Bureau of Consular Affairs within the United States Department of State. The Assistant Secretary of State for Consular Affairs reports to the Under Secretary of State for Management...
    
    
  • Assistant Secretary for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor
    Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor
    The Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor is the head of the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor within the United States Department of State...
    
    
  • Assistant Secretary for Diplomatic Security
    Assistant Secretary of State for Diplomatic Security
    The Assistant Secretary of State for Diplomatic Security is the head of the Bureau of Diplomatic Security in the United States Department of State...
    
    
  • Assistant Secretary for East Asian and Pacific Affairs
    Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs
    The Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs is the head of the Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs within the United States Department of State. The Assistant Secretary guides operation of the U.S...
    
    
  • Assistant Secretary for Economic, Energy and Business Affairs
  • Assistant Secretary for Educational and Cultural Affairs
    Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs
    The Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs is the head of the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, a bureau within the United States Department of State...
    
    
  • Assistant Secretary for European and Eurasian Affairs
    Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs
    The Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs is a position within the American Department of State that leads the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs charged with implementing American foreign policy in Europe and Eurasia, and with advising the Under Secretary for...
    
    
  • Assistant Secretary for Intelligence and Research
    Assistant Secretary of State for Intelligence and Research
    The Assistant Secretary of State for Intelligence and Research is the head of the Bureau of Intelligence and Research within the United States Department of State. Before 1986, the head of INR was the Director of the Bureau of Intelligence and Research...
    
    
  • Assistant Secretary for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs
    Assistant Secretary of State for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs
    Assistant Secretary of State for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs is a position of the United States government within the Department of State that heads the Bureau for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs, which is responsible for development of policies and...
    
    
  • Assistant Secretary for International Organization Affairs
    Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs
    The Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs is the head of the Bureau of International Organization Affairs within the American Department of State that creates and executes policy in international organizations such as the United Nations...
    
    
  • Assistant Secretary for International Security and Nonproliferation
    Assistant Secretary of State for International Security and Nonproliferation
    The Assistant Secretary of State for International Security and Nonproliferation is the head of the Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation, which is responsible for managing the nonproliferation, counterproliferation, and arms control functions of the United States Department of State...
    
    
  • Assistant Secretary for Legislative Affairs
    Assistant Secretary of State for Legislative Affairs
    The Assistant Secretary of State for Legislative Affairs is the head of the Bureau of Legislative Affairs within the United States Department of State.- List of Assistant Secretaries of State for Legislative Affairs :-External links:**...
    
    
  • Assistant Secretary for Near Eastern Affairs
    Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs
    The Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs is the head of the Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs within the American Department of State. The Assistant Secretary guides operation of the U.S. diplomatic establishment in various countries of North Africa and the Middle East and advises...
    
    
  • Assistant Secretary for Oceans, Environment, and Science
  • Assistant Secretary for Political and Military Affairs
  • Assistant Secretary for Population, Refugee, and Migration Affairs
  • Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs
  • Assistant Secretary for Resource Management
  • Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asian Affairs
    Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs
    The Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs is the head of the Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs within the United States Department of State, which handles U.S...
    
    
  • Assistant Secretary for Verification, Compliance, and Implementation
    Assistant Secretary of State for Verification, Compliance, and Implementation
    The Assistant Secretary of State for Arms Control, Verification and Compliance is the head of the Bureau of Arms Control, Verification and Compliance...
    
    
  • Assistant Secretary for Western Hemisphere Affairs
    Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs
    The Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs is the head of the Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs within the United States Department of State, the foreign affairs department of the United States federal government. The Assistant Secretary of State guides operation of the U.S...
    
    
  • Ambassador-at-Large and Coordinator for Counterterrorism
    Coordinator for Counterterrorism
    The Coordinator for Counterterrorism heads the Office of the Coordinator for Counterterrorism, which coordinates U.S. government efforts to fight terrorism.-List of Coordinators for Combating Terrorism:-External links:**...
    
    
  • Ambassador-at-Large and Director of the Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons
  • Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom
    Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom
    The Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom is the ambassador-at-large who heads the Office of International Religious Freedom in the United States Department of State....
    
    
  • Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes Issues
  • U.S. Permanent Representative to the Organization of American States
    United States Ambassador to the Organization of American States
    The following is a list of people who have served as United States Ambassador to the Organization of American States, or the full title, Representative of the United States of America to the Organization of American States, with the rank and status of Ambassador Extraordinary and...
    
    
  • U.S. Permanent Representative to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization
    United States Permanent Representative to NATO
    The United States Permanent Representative to NATO is the official representative of the United States to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. The Representative has the rank of full ambassador and is appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate...
    
    
  • Chief Financial Officer
  • United States Global AIDS Coordinator
  • Counselor
    Counselor of the United States Department of State
    The Counselor of the United States Department of State is a position within the United States Department of State that serves the Secretary of State as a special advisor and consultant on major problems of foreign policy and who provides guidance to the appropriate bureaus with respect to such...
    
    
  • Director General - United States Foreign Service
    United States Foreign Service
    The United States Foreign Service is a component of the United States federal government under the aegis of the United States Department of State. It consists of approximately 11,500 professionals carrying out the foreign policy of the United States and aiding U.S...
    
    
  • Director — Office of Foreign Missions
  • Inspector General
  • Legal Adviser
  • Chief of Protocol
    Chief of Protocol of the United States
    The Chief of Protocol is an officer of the United States Department of State responsible for advising the President of the United States, the vice president, and the secretary of state on matters of national and international diplomatic protocol...
    
    
  • Ambassadors
  • Foreign Service Officer
    Foreign Service Officer
    A Foreign Service Officer is a commissioned member of the United States Foreign Service. As diplomats, Foreign Service Officers formulate and implement the foreign policy of the United States. FSOs spend most of their careers overseas as members of U.S. embassies, consulates, and other diplomatic...
    
    s (commissions and promotions)
  • United States Mission to the United Nations
    • U.S. Permanent Representative
      United States Ambassador to the United Nations
      The United States Ambassador to the United Nations is the leader of the U.S. delegation, the U.S. Mission to the United Nations. The position is more formally known as the "Permanent Representative of the United States of America to the United Nations, with the rank and status of Ambassador...
      
       and Chief of Mission to the United Nations
      United Nations
      The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are facilitating cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, social progress, human rights, and achievement of world peace...
      
      
    • U.S. Deputy Permanent Representative - United Nations
    • U.S. Representative - United Nations Economic and Social Council
      United Nations Economic and Social Council
      The Economic and Social Council of the United Nations constitutes one of the six principal organs of the United Nations and it is responsible for the coordination of the economic, social and related work of 14 UN specialized agencies, its functional commissions and five regional commissions...
      
      
    • U.S. Alternate Representative - Special Political Affairs in the United Nations
    • U.S. Representative - United Nations Management and Reform
    • U.S. Representative - European Office of the United Nations (Geneva)
      United Nations Office at Geneva
      The United Nations Office at Geneva is the second-largest of the four major office sites of the United Nations...
      
      
    • U.S. Representative - United Nations Office at Vienna
      United Nations Office at Vienna
      The United Nations Office in Vienna is one of the four major UN office sites where several different UN agencies have a joint presence. The office complex is located in Vienna, the capital of Austria, and is part of the Vienna International Centre, a cluster of several major international...
      
       (also serves as a representative to the International Atomic Energy Agency
      International Atomic Energy Agency
      The International Atomic Energy Agency is an international organization that seeks to promote the peaceful use of nuclear energy, and to inhibit its use for any military purpose, including nuclear weapons. The IAEA was established as an autonomous organization on 29 July 1957...
      
      )
    • U.S. Representative - International Atomic Energy Agency
    • U.S. Deputy Representative - International Atomic Energy Agency
    • U.S. Representative to sessions of the General Assembly
      United Nations General Assembly
      For two articles dealing with membership in the General Assembly, see:* General Assembly members* General Assembly observersThe United Nations General Assembly is one of the five principal organs of the United Nations and the only one in which all member nations have equal representation...
      
       and other United Nations Bodies — numerous positions (terms of office depends on length of session)

• United States Agency for International Development
  United States Agency for International Development
  The United States Agency for International Development is the United States federal government agency primarily responsible for administering civilian foreign aid. President John F. Kennedy created USAID in 1961 by executive order to implement development assistance programs in the areas...
  
  
  • Administrator
  • Assistant Administrator — Asia and Near East
  • Assistant Administrator — Democracy, Conflict, and Humanitarian Assistance
  • Assistant Administrator — Economic Growth, Agriculture, and Trade
  • Assistant Administrator — Europe and Eurasia
  • Assistant Administrator — Global Health
  • Assistant Administrator — Latin America and Caribbean
  • Assistant Administrator — Legislative and Public Affairs
  • Assistant Administrator — Management
  • Assistant Administrator — Policy and Program Coordination
  • Assistant Administrator — Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Deputy Administrator
  • Inspector General

• European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
  European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
  Founded in 1991, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development uses the tools of investment to help build market economies and democracies in 30 countries from central Europe to central Asia. Its mission was to support the formerly communist countries in the process of establishing their...
  
  
  • U.S. Executive Director

• International Broadcasting Bureau
  International Broadcasting Bureau
  The International Broadcasting Bureau is an entity within the Broadcasting Board of Governors , which is a U.S. independent agency. The IBB supports the day-to-day operations of Voice of America and the Office of Cuba Broadcasting...
  
  , Broadcasting Board of Governors
  • Director

• International Joint Commission
  International Joint Commission
  The International Joint Commission is an independent binational organization established by the United States and Canada under the Boundary Waters Treaty of 1909.The Commission has responsibilities related to the following treaties and agreements:...
  
  , United States and Canada
• Commissioner - three positions

• International Monetary Fund
  International Monetary Fund
  The International Monetary Fund is an organization of 187 countries, working to foster global monetary cooperation, secure financial stability, facilitate international trade, promote high employment and sustainable economic growth, and reduce poverty around the world...
  
  
  • U.S. Executive Director (two-year term of office)
  • U.S. Alternate Executive Director (two-year term of office)

• Inter-American Development Bank
  Inter-American Development Bank
  The Inter-American Development Bank is the largest source of development financing for Latin America and the Caribbean...
  
  
  • U.S. Executive Director (three-year term of office)
  • U.S. Alternate Executive Director (three-year term of office)

• Inter-American Investment Corporation
  • U.S. Alternate Executive Director for the Inter-American Investment Corporation
  • U.S. Alternate executive director for the inter-american investment corporation

• United States Trade and Development Agency
  United States Trade and Development Agency
  The U.S. Trade and Development Agency , located in Rosslyn, Arlington, Virginia, is an independent U.S. Government foreign assistance agency pursuant to section 661 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, as amended . The agency was established to advance economic development and U.S. commercial...
  
  
  • Director

• African Development Bank
  African Development Bank
  The African Development Bank Group is a development bank established in 1964 with the intention of promoting economic and social development in Africa...
  
  
  • U.S. Executive Director (five-year term of office; full-time)
  • Governor and Alternate Governor (five-year terms of office; part-time)

• Asian Development Bank
  Asian Development Bank
  The Asian Development Bank is a regional development bank established on 22 August 1966 to facilitate economic development of countries in Asia...
  
  
  • U.S. Executive Director (full-time)
  • Governor and Alternate Governor (part-time)

• International Bank for Reconstruction and Development
  International Bank for Reconstruction and Development
  The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development is one of five institutions that compose the World Bank Group. The IBRD is an international organization whose original mission was to finance the reconstruction of nations devastated by World War II. Now, its mission has expanded to fight...
  
  
  • U.S. Executive Director two-year term of office; full-time
  • U.S. Alternate Executive Director
  • Governor
  • Alternate Governor

International Development Association

International Development Association

The International Development Association , is the part of the World Bank that helps the world’s poorest countries. It complements the World Bank's other lending arm — the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development — which serves middle-income countries with capital investment and...

• • U.S. Executive director for the international development association
  • U.S. Alternate director for the international development association
  • Governor for the international development association
  • Alternate Governor for the international development association

International Finance Corporation

International Finance Corporation

The International Finance Corporation promotes sustainable private sector investment in developing countries.IFC is a member of the World Bank Group and is headquartered in Washington, D.C., United States....

• • U.S. Executive director for the international finance corporation
  • U.S. Alternate Director for the international finance corporation
  • Governor for the international finance corporation
  • Alternate Governor for the international finance corporation

• Millennium Challenge Corporation
  Millennium Challenge Corporation
  The Millennium Challenge Corporation is a bilateral United States foreign aid agency created by the George W. Bush administration in 2004, applying a new philosophy towards foreign aid.-Background and formation:...
  
  
  • Chief Executive Officer (full-time)
  • Member, Board of Directors - four (of nine total) positions (part-time; three-year terms of office)

• Overseas Private Investment Corporation
  Overseas Private Investment Corporation
  The Overseas Private Investment Corporation is an independent agency of the United States Government that mobilizes U.S. private sector investment in new and emerging markets overseas in order to support both the sustainable economic development of those markets and the creation of American jobs...
  
  
  • President/Chief Executive Officer (full-time)
  • Executive Vice President (full-time)
  • Member, Board of Directors - eight (of 15 total) positions (part-time; three-year terms of office)

• Peace Corps
  Peace Corps
  The Peace Corps is an American volunteer program run by the United States Government, as well as a government agency of the same name. The mission of the Peace Corps includes three goals: providing technical assistance, helping people outside the United States to understand US culture, and helping...
  
  
  • Director (full-time)
  • Deputy Director (full-time)
  • Member, Peace Corps National Advisory Council — 15 positions (part-time; political balance required; two-year terms of office)

• Advisory Board for Cuba Broadcasting (political balance required)
  • Member - nine positions (three-year terms of office)

• African Development Foundation
  African Development Foundation
  The United States African Development Foundation is an "Independent United States Government Agency" which provides grants of up to $250,000 to community groups and small enterprises that benefit under served and marginalized groups in Sub-Saharan Africa...
  
  , Board of Directors (political balance required)
  • Member - seven positions (six-year terms of office)

• African Development Fund
  • Governor and Alternate Governor

• Broadcasting Board of Governors
  Broadcasting Board of Governors
  The Broadcasting Board of Governors is an independent agency of the United States government responsible for all non-military, international broadcasting sponsored by the U.S government. It was previously a department within the United States Information Agency until 1999.-Origins:Starting in...
  
   (political balance required)
  • Member - eight (of nine total) positions (three-year terms of office)

• Inter-American Foundation
  Inter-American Foundation
  The Inter-American Foundation, or IAF, is an independent agency of the United States government that funds development projects undertaken by grassroots groups and nongovernmental organizations in Latin America and the Caribbean...
  
  , Board of Directors (political balance required)
  • Member — nine positions (six-year terms of office)

• U.S. Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy (political balance required)
  • Commissioner — seven positions (three-year terms of office)

Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions

• Department of Education
  United States Department of Education
  The United States Department of Education, also referred to as ED or the ED for Education Department, is a Cabinet-level department of the United States government...
  
  
  • Secretary
    United States Secretary of Education
    The United States Secretary of Education is the head of the Department of Education. The Secretary is a member of the President's Cabinet, and 16th in line of United States presidential line of succession...
    
    
  • Deputy Secretary
    United States Deputy Secretary of Education
    The Deputy Secretary of Education oversees and manages the development of policies in the United States Department of Education. The Deputy Secretary focuses primarily on K–12 education policy, such as No Child Left Behind, the High School Initiative, and the Individuals with Disabilities Education...
    
    
  • Director, Institute of Education Sciences (six-year term of office)
  • Under Secretary
    Under Secretary of Education
    The Under Secretary of Education is the third highest ranking official in the United States Department of Education. The Under Secretary oversees policies, programs, and activities related to postsecondary education, vocational and adult education, and federal student aid.The Office of the Under...
    
    
  • Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights
  • Assistant Secretary for Communications and Outreach
  • Assistant Secretary for Elementary and Secondary Education
  • Assistant Secretary for Legislation and Congressional Affairs
  • Assistant Secretary for Management
  • Assistant Secretary for Planning, Evaluation and Policy Development
  • Assistant Secretary for Postsecondary Education
  • Assistant Secretary for Special Education and Rehabilitative Services
  • Assistant Secretary for Vocational and Adult Education
  • Chief Financial Officer
  • Commissioner - Education Statistics (six-year term of office)
  • Commissioner - Rehabilitation Services Administration
    Rehabilitation Services Administration
    The Rehabilitation Services Administration is a federal agency under the United States Department of Education. It was established to administer portions of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973....
    
    
  • General Counsel
  • Inspector General

• Department of Health and Human Services
  United States Department of Health and Human Services
  The United States Department of Health and Human Services is a Cabinet department of the United States government with the goal of protecting the health of all Americans and providing essential human services. Its motto is "Improving the health, safety, and well-being of America"...
  
  
  • Administrator — Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
    Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
    The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration is a branch of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. It is charged with improving the quality and availability of prevention, treatment, and rehabilitative services in order to reduce illness, death, disability, and cost to...
    
    
  • Assistant Secretary for Aging
  • Assistant Secretary for Health
  • Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response
  • Commissioner of Food and Drugs
  • Director - National Institutes of Health
    National Institutes of Health
    The National Institutes of Health are an agency of the United States Department of Health and Human Services and are the primary agency of the United States government responsible for biomedical and health-related research. Its science and engineering counterpart is the National Science Foundation...
    
    
  • United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps officers
  • Surgeon General
    Surgeon General of the United States
    The Surgeon General of the United States is the operational head of the Public Health Service Commissioned Corps and thus the leading spokesperson on matters of public health in the federal government...
    
     (four-year term of office)

• Department of Labor
  United States Department of Labor
  The United States Department of Labor is a Cabinet department of the United States government responsible for occupational safety, wage and hour standards, unemployment insurance benefits, re-employment services, and some economic statistics. Many U.S. states also have such departments. The...
  
  
  • Secretary of Labor
    United States Secretary of Labor
    The United States Secretary of Labor is the head of the Department of Labor who exercises control over the department and enforces and suggests laws involving unions, the workplace, and all other issues involving any form of business-person controversies....
    
    
  • Deputy Secretary of Labor
    United States Deputy Secretary of Labor
    United States Deputy Secretary of Labor is the second-highest-ranking official in the United States Department of Labor. In the United States federal government, the Deputy Secretary oversees the day-to-day operation of the Department of Labor, and may act as Secretary of Labor during the absence...
    
    
  • Assistant Secretary for Administration and Management
  • Assistant Secretary for Congressional and Intergovernmental Affairs
  • Assistant Secretary for Disability Employment Policy
  • Assistant Secretary for Employee Benefits Security Administration
    Employee Benefits Security Administration
    The Employee Benefits Security Administration is an agency of the United States Department of Labor responsible for administering, regulating and enforcing the provisions of Title I of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 . At the time of its name change in February 2003, EBSA was...
    
    
  • Assistant Secretary for Employment Standards Administration
    Employment Standards Administration
    The Employment Standards Administration , was the largest agency within the U.S. Department of Labor. Its four subagencies enforced and administerered laws governing legally mandated wages and working conditions, including child labor, minimum wages, overtime pay, and family and medical leave;...
    
    
  • Assistant Secretary for Employment and Training Administration
    Employment and Training Administration
    The mission of the Employment and Training Administration , as part of the U.S. Department of Labor, is to contribute to the more efficient and effective functioning of the U.S. labor market by providing high quality job training, employment, labor market information, and income maintenance...
    
    
  • Assistant Secretary for Mine Safety and Health Administration
    Mine Safety and Health Administration
    The Mine Safety and Health Administration is an agency of the United States Department of Labor which administers the provisions of the Federal Mine Safety and Health Act of 1977 to enforce compliance with mandatory safety and health standards as a means to eliminate fatal accidents, to reduce...
    
    
  • Assistant Secretary for Occupational Safety and Health Administration
    Occupational Safety and Health Administration
    The United States Occupational Safety and Health Administration is an agency of the United States Department of Labor. It was created by Congress of the United States under the Occupational Safety and Health Act, signed by President Richard M. Nixon, on December 29, 1970...
    
    
  • Assistant Secretary for Policy
  • Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs
  • Assistant Secretary for Veterans' Employment and Training Service
  • Administrator - Wage and Hour Division
  • Chief Financial Officer
  • Commissioner - Bureau of Labor Statistics
    Bureau of Labor Statistics
    The Bureau of Labor Statistics is a unit of the United States Department of Labor. It is the principal fact-finding agency for the U.S. government in the broad field of labor economics and statistics. The BLS is a governmental statistical agency that collects, processes, analyzes, and...
    
    
  • Director - Women's Bureau
    United States Women's Bureau
    The United States Women's Bureau is an agency of the United States government within the United States Department of Labor. The WB was established by Congress in 1920 and continues its responsibility to carry out Public Law 66-259; 29 U.S.C...
    
    
  • Inspector General
  • Solicitor

• Corporation for National and Community Service
  Corporation For National and Community Service
  The Corporation for National and Community Service is a federal agency that engages more than five million Americans in service through Senior Corps, AmeriCorps, and Learn and Serve America, and other national service initiatives...
  
  
  • Chief Executive Officer
  • Managing Director
  • Managing Director
  • Chief Financial Officer
  • Inspector General

• Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
  Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
  The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is an independent federal law enforcement agency that enforces laws against workplace discrimination. The EEOC investigates discrimination complaints based on an individual's race, color, national origin, religion, sex, age, perceived intelligence,...
  
   (political balance required)
  • Commissioner — five positions (five-year terms of office)
  • General Counsel (four-year term of office)

• Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service
  • Director

• Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission
  Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission
  The Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission is an independent adjudicative agency of the United States government that provides administrative trial and appellate review of legal disputes arising under the Federal Mine Safety and Health Amendments Act, or Mine Act, of 1977.Under the Mine...
  
  
  • Commissioner — five positions (six-year terms of office)

• National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities
  • National Endowment for the Arts
    National Endowment for the Arts
    The National Endowment for the Arts is an independent agency of the United States federal government that offers support and funding for projects exhibiting artistic excellence. It was created by an act of the U.S. Congress in 1965 as an independent agency of the federal government. Its current...
    
     - Chair (four-year term of office)
  • National Endowment for the Humanities
    National Endowment for the Humanities
    The National Endowment for the Humanities is an independent federal agency of the United States established by the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act of 1965 dedicated to supporting research, education, preservation, and public programs in the humanities. The NEH is located at...
    
     - Chair (four-year term of office)
  • Institute of Museum and Library Services
    Institute of Museum and Library Services
    The Institute of Museum and Library Services is an independent agency of the United States federal government established in 1996. It is the main source of federal support for libraries and museums within the United States, having the mission to "create strong libraries and museums that connect...
    
     - Director (four-year term of office)

• National Labor Relations Board
  National Labor Relations Board
  The National Labor Relations Board is an independent agency of the United States government charged with conducting elections for labor union representation and with investigating and remedying unfair labor practices. Unfair labor practices may involve union-related situations or instances of...
  
   (Political balance is not required, but, by tradition, no more than three members are from the same party.)
  • Member - five positions (five-year terms of office)
  • General Counsel (four-year term of office)

• National Mediation Board
  National Mediation Board
  The National Mediation Board is an independent agency of the United States government that coordinates labor-management relations within the U.S...
  
   (political balance required)
  • Member - three positions (three-year terms of office)

• National Science Foundation
  National Science Foundation
  The National Science Foundation is a United States government agency that supports fundamental research and education in all the non-medical fields of science and engineering. Its medical counterpart is the National Institutes of Health...
  
  
  • Director (six-year term of office)
  • Deputy Director

• Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission
  • Member - three positions (six-year terms of office)

• Office of National Drug Control Policy
  Office of National Drug Control Policy
  The White House Office of National Drug Control Policy , a former cabinet level component of the Executive Office of the President of the United States, was established in 1989 by the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1988...
  
   (Executive Office of the President)
  • Deputy Director - Demand Reduction

• Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation
  Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation
  The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation is an independent agency of the United States government that was created by the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 to encourage the continuation and maintenance of voluntary private defined benefit pension plans, provide timely and...
  
  
  • Director

• Railroad Retirement Board
  Railroad Retirement Board
  The U.S. Railroad Retirement Board is an independent agency in the executive branch of the United States government created in 1935 to administer a social insurance program providing retirement benefits to the country's railroad workers....
  
  
  • Member - three positions (five-year terms of office; chair, who first must be appointed as a member, also needs to be confirmed.)
  • Inspector General

• Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship
  Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship
  The Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Program was established by the United States Congress in 1986 in honor of former United States Senator and 1964 presidential candidate Barry Goldwater, a Republican from Arizona...
  
   and Excellence in Education Foundation, Board of Trustees (political balance required)
  • Member - eight (of 13 total) positions (six-year terms of office)

• Corporation for National and Community Service
  Corporation For National and Community Service
  The Corporation for National and Community Service is a federal agency that engages more than five million Americans in service through Senior Corps, AmeriCorps, and Learn and Serve America, and other national service initiatives...
  
  , Board of Directors (political balance required)
  • Member - 15 positions (five-year terms of office)

• Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation, Board of Trustees (political balance required)
  • Member - eight (of 13 total) positions (six-year terms of office)

• James Madison Memorial Fellowship Foundation, Board of Trustees (political balance required)
  • Member - six (of 13 total) positions (six-year terms of office)

• Legal Services Corporation
  Legal Services Corporation
  The Legal Services Corporation is a private, non-profit corporation established by the United States Congress. It seeks to ensure equal access to justice under the law for all Americans by providing civil legal assistance to those who otherwise would be unable to afford it...
  
   Board of Directors (political balance required)
  • Member - 11 positions (three-year terms of office)

• National Board for Education Sciences
  • Member - 15 positions

• National Commission on Libraries and Information Science
  National Commission on Libraries and Information Science
  The National Commission on Libraries and Information Science was an agency in the United States government between 1970 and 2008. The activities of the Commission were consolidated into the Institute of Museum and Library Services.-Origins:...
  
  
  • Member - 14 (of 15 total) positions (five-year terms of office)

• National Council on Disability
  National Council on Disability
  The National Council on Disability was initially established in 1978 as an advisory board within the United States Department of Education to guarantee equal opportunity for people with disabilities. NCD is composed of 15 members, appointed by the President of the United States and confirmed by...
  
  
  • Member - 15 positions (three-year terms of office)

• National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities
  • National Council on the Arts
    • Member - 14 positions (of 21 total) positions (six-year terms of office)
  • National Council on the Humanities
    • Member - 26 positions (of 27 total) positions (six-year terms of office)
  • National Museum Services Board
    • Member - 14 positions (of 15 total) positions (five-year terms of office)

• National Institute for Literacy Advisory Board
  • Member - 10 positions (three-year terms of office)

• National Science Board
  National Science Board
  The National Science Board of the United States is composed of 25 members appointed by the President and confirmed by the United States Senate, representing the broad U.S. science and engineering community. The Board establishes the policies of the National Science Foundation within the framework...
  
   (National Science Foundation
  National Science Foundation
  The National Science Foundation is a United States government agency that supports fundamental research and education in all the non-medical fields of science and engineering. Its medical counterpart is the National Institutes of Health...
  
  )
  • Member - 24 positions (six-year terms of office)

• United States Institute of Peace
  United States Institute of Peace
  The United States Institute of Peace was created by Congress as a non-partisan, federal institution that works to prevent or end violent conflict around the world...
  
  , Board of Directors (political balance required)
  • Member - 12 (of 15 total) positions (four-year terms of office)

Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs

• Department of Commerce
  United States Department of Commerce
  The United States Department of Commerce is the Cabinet department of the United States government concerned with promoting economic growth. It was originally created as the United States Department of Commerce and Labor on February 14, 1903...
  
  
  • Director - Bureau of the Census

• United States Department of Homeland Security
  United States Department of Homeland Security
  The United States Department of Homeland Security is a cabinet department of the United States federal government, created in response to the September 11 attacks, and with the primary responsibilities of protecting the territory of the United States and protectorates from and responding to...
  
  
  • Secretary
    United States Secretary of Homeland Security
    The United States Secretary of Homeland Security is the head of the United States Department of Homeland Security, the body concerned with protecting the American homeland and the safety of American citizens. The Secretary is a member of the President's Cabinet. The position was created by the...
    
    
  • Deputy Secretary
    United States Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security
    The Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security is the chief operating officer of the United States Department of Homeland Security. In this role, the Deputy Secretary serves as Department of Homeland Security's chief operating officer, with responsibility for managing day-to-day operations...
    
    
  • Under Secretary for Management
    Under Secretary of Homeland Security for Management
    The Under Secretary for Management is a position within the United States Department of Homeland Security responsible for all the department's budget, appropriations, expenditure of funds, accounting and finance; procurement; human resources and personnel; information technology systems;...
    
    
  • Under Secretary for National Protection and Programs
  • Assistant Secretary - Health Affairs
  • Assistant Secretary - Policy
  • Assistant Secretary - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
    U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
    U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is a federal law enforcement agency under the United States Department of Homeland Security , responsible for identifying, investigating, and dismantling vulnerabilities regarding the nation's border, economic, transportation, and infrastructure security...
    
    
  • Assistant Secretary of Transportation Security - Transportation Security Administration
    Transportation Security Administration
    The Transportation Security Administration is an agency of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security that exercises authority over the safety and security of the traveling public in the United States....
    
    
  • Administrator of the Transportation Security Administration
  • Administrator - United States Fire Administration
    United States Fire Administration
    The United States Fire Administration is a division of the Federal Emergency Management Agency which in turn is managed by the Department of Homeland Security located in unincorporated Frederick County, Maryland, near Emmitsburg.-History:...
    
    
  • Deputy Administrator, Federal Emergency Management Agency
    Federal Emergency Management Agency
    The Federal Emergency Management Agency is an agency of the United States Department of Homeland Security, initially created by Presidential Reorganization Plan No. 1 of 1978 and implemented by two Executive Orders...
    
    
  • Deputy Administrator for National Preparedness, Federal Emergency Management Agency
  • Assistant Administrator for Grant Programs, Federal Emergency Management Agency
  • Director - Office of Counternarcotics Enforcement
  • Chief Financial Officer
  • General Counsel
  • Inspector General

• Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency to the District of Columbia
  • Director (six-year term of office)

• District of Columbia Court of Appeals
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals
  The District of Columbia Court of Appeals is the highest court of the District of Columbia. Established by the United States Congress in 1970, it is equivalent to a state supreme court, except that its power derives from Article I of the U.S. Constitution rather than from the inherent sovereignty...
  
   (15-year terms of office)
  • Chief Judge
  • Judges - eight positions

• Superior Court of the District of Columbia
  Superior Court of the District of Columbia
  The Superior Court of the District of Columbia is the local trial court for the District of Columbia. It hears cases involving criminal and civil law. The court also handles specialized cases in the following areas: family court, landlord and tenant, probate, tax, and traffic offenses...
  
   (15-year terms of office)
  • Chief Judge
  • Judges - 61 positions

• Federal Labor Relations Authority
  Federal Labor Relations Authority
  The Federal Labor Relations Authority is an independent agency of the United States government that governs labor relations between the federal government and its employees....
  
   (political balance required)
  • Members - three positions (five-year terms of office)
  • General Counsel (five-year term of office)

• Government Accountability Office
  Government Accountability Office
  The Government Accountability Office is the audit, evaluation, and investigative arm of the United States Congress. It is located in the legislative branch of the United States government.-History:...
  
  
  • Comptroller General of the United States
    Comptroller General of the United States
    The Comptroller General of the United States is the director of the Government Accountability Office , a legislative branch agency established by Congress in 1921 to ensure the fiscal and managerial accountability of the federal government...
    
     (15-year term of office)
  • Deputy Comptroller General

• General Services Administration
  General Services Administration
  The General Services Administration is an independent agency of the United States government, established in 1949 to help manage and support the basic functioning of federal agencies. The GSA supplies products and communications for U.S...
  
  
  • Administrator
  • Inspector General

• Merit Systems Protection Board
  United States Merit Systems Protection Board
  The Merit Systems Protection Board is an independent quasi-judicial agency established to protect federal merit systems against partisan political and other prohibited personnel practices and to ensure adequate protection for federal employees against abuses by agency management...
  
   (political balance required)
  • Member - three positions (seven-year terms of office). The Chair, who first must be confirmed as a member, also needs to be confirmed.

• National Archives and Records Administration
  National Archives and Records Administration
  The National Archives and Records Administration is an independent agency of the United States government charged with preserving and documenting government and historical records and with increasing public access to those documents, which comprise the National Archives...
  
  
  • Archivist of the United States
    Archivist of the United States
    The Archivist of the United States is the chief official overseeing the operation of the National Archives and Records Administration. The first Archivist, R.D.W. Connor, began serving in 1934, when the National Archives was established as an independent federal agency by Congress...
    
    

• Office of Government Ethics
  • Director (five-year term of office)

• Office of Management and Budget (Executive Office of the President)
  • Director
  • Deputy Director
  • Deputy Director - Management
  • Administrator - Office of Federal Procurement Policy
  • Administrator - Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs
    Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs
    The Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs is an office of the United States Government that Congress established in the 1980 Paperwork Reduction Act. OIRA is located within the Office of Management and Budget, which is an agency within the Executive Office of the President...
    
    
  • Controller - Office of Federal Financial Management
    Office of Federal Financial Management
    The Office of Federal Financial Management is a sub-division the United States Office of Management and Budget.OFFM responsibilities include implementing the financial management improvement priorities of the President, establishing government-wide financial management policies of executive...
    
    

• Office of Personnel Management
  Office of Personnel Management
  The United States Office of Personnel Management is an independent agency of the United States government that manages the civil service of the federal government. The current Director is John Berry.-History:...
  
  
  • Director (four-year term of office)
  • Deputy Director
  • Inspector General

• Office of Special Counsel
  • Special Counsel (five-year term of office)

• Postal Regulatory Commission (political balance required)
  • Commissioner - five positions (six-year terms of office)

• Most other Inspectors General

• Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board
  Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board
  The Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board was established as an independent agency of the United States government by the Federal Employees Retirement System Act of 1986. It is one of the smaller executive branch agencies, with just over 80 employees...
  
  
  • Member - five positions (four-year terms of office)

• Special Panel on Appeals
  • Chair (six-year term of office)

• Board of Governors of the United States Postal Service
  Board of Governors of the United States Postal Service
  The Board of Governors of the United States Postal Service is an eleven-member board comparable to a board of directors of a private corporation, except in service of the American postal system. Nine members are appointed by the President of the United States, subject to confirmation by the Senate...
  
   (political balance required)
  • Governor - nine positions (nine-year terms of office)

Committee on Indian Affairs

• Department of Health and Human Services
  United States Department of Health and Human Services
  The United States Department of Health and Human Services is a Cabinet department of the United States government with the goal of protecting the health of all Americans and providing essential human services. Its motto is "Improving the health, safety, and well-being of America"...
  
  
  • Director - Indian Health Service
    Indian Health Service
    Indian Health Service is an Operating Division within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services . IHS is responsible for providing medical and public health services to members of federally recognized Tribes and Alaska Natives...
    
     (four-year term of office)
  • Commissioner - Administration for Native Americans
    Administration for Native Americans
    The Administration for Native Americans is a department of the United States Department of Health and Human Services established in 1974 through the Native American Programs Act ....
    
    

• Department of the Interior
  United States Department of the Interior
  The United States Department of the Interior is the United States federal executive department of the U.S. government responsible for the management and conservation of most federal land and natural resources, and the administration of programs relating to Native Americans, Alaska Natives, Native...
  
  
  • Assistant Secretary - Indian Affairs
  • Chair - National Indian Gaming Commission
    National Indian Gaming Commission
    The National Indian Gaming Commission is an independent federal regulatory agency within the Department of the Interior. Congress established this agency through the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act in 1988. The agency has the duty to "promulgate such regulations and guidelines as it deems...
    
     (three-year term of office)
  • Special Trustee - American Indians

• Office of Navajo and Hopi Indian Relocation
  • Commissioner (two-year term of office)

• Institute of American Indian and Alaska Native Culture and Arts Development, Board of Trustees
  • Member - 13 (voting) positions (six-year terms of office)

Select Committee on Intelligence

• Department of Justice
  United States Department of Justice
  The United States Department of Justice , is the United States federal executive department responsible for the enforcement of the law and administration of justice, equivalent to the justice or interior ministries of other countries.The Department is led by the Attorney General, who is nominated...
  
  
  • Assistant Attorney General - National Security Division
    United States Department of Justice National Security Division
    The United States Department of Justice National Security Division is the division of the DOJ that handles all national security functions of the Department. Created by the 2005 USA PATRIOT Act reauthorization, the Division consolidated all of the Department's national security and intelligence...
    
    

• Department of State
  United States Department of State
  The United States Department of State , is the United States federal executive department responsible for international relations of the United States, equivalent to the foreign ministries of other countries...
  
  
  • Assistant Secretary for Intelligence and Research

• Department of the Treasury
  United States Department of the Treasury
  The Department of the Treasury is an executive department and the treasury of the United States federal government. It was established by an Act of Congress in 1789 to manage government revenue...
  
  
  • Assistant Secretary for Intelligence and Analysis

• Central Intelligence Agency
  Central Intelligence Agency
  The Central Intelligence Agency is a civilian intelligence agency of the United States government. It is an executive agency and reports directly to the Director of National Intelligence, responsible for providing national security intelligence assessment to senior United States policymakers...
  
  
  • Director
    Director of the Central Intelligence Agency
    Director of the Central Intelligence Agency serves as the head of the Central Intelligence Agency, which is part of the United States Intelligence Community. The Director reports to the Director of National Intelligence . The Director is assisted by the Deputy Director of the Central...
    
    
  • General Counsel
  • Inspector General

• Director of National Intelligence
  • Director
  • Principal Deputy Director
  • Director, National Counterterrorism Center
    National Counterterrorism Center
    The National Counterterrorism Center is a United States government organization responsible for national and international counterterrorism efforts. It is based in a modern complex near McLean, Virginia called Liberty Crossing...
    
    
  • General Counsel
  • Chief Information Officer

Committee on the Judiciary

• Department of Commerce
  United States Department of Commerce
  The United States Department of Commerce is the Cabinet department of the United States government concerned with promoting economic growth. It was originally created as the United States Department of Commerce and Labor on February 14, 1903...
  
  
  • Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property
    Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property
    The Under Secretary for Intellectual Property, within the United States Department of Commerce, is the Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office...
    
     - United States Patent and Trademark Office
    United States Patent and Trademark Office
    The United States Patent and Trademark Office is an agency in the United States Department of Commerce that issues patents to inventors and businesses for their inventions, and trademark registration for product and intellectual property identification.The USPTO is based in Alexandria, Virginia,...
    
    

• Department of Homeland Security
  United States Department of Homeland Security
  The United States Department of Homeland Security is a cabinet department of the United States federal government, created in response to the September 11 attacks, and with the primary responsibilities of protecting the territory of the United States and protectorates from and responding to...
  
  
  • Assistant Secretary - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
    U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
    U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is a federal law enforcement agency under the United States Department of Homeland Security , responsible for identifying, investigating, and dismantling vulnerabilities regarding the nation's border, economic, transportation, and infrastructure security...
    
    
  • Director - U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services

• Department of Justice
  United States Department of Justice
  The United States Department of Justice , is the United States federal executive department responsible for the enforcement of the law and administration of justice, equivalent to the justice or interior ministries of other countries.The Department is led by the Attorney General, who is nominated...
  
  
  • Attorney General
    United States Attorney General
    The United States Attorney General is the head of the United States Department of Justice concerned with legal affairs and is the chief law enforcement officer of the United States government. The attorney general is considered to be the chief lawyer of the U.S. government...
    
    
  • Deputy Attorney General
    United States Deputy Attorney General
    United States Deputy Attorney General is the second-highest-ranking official in the United States Department of Justice. In the United States federal government, the Deputy Attorney General oversees the day-to-day operation of the Department of Justice, and may act as Attorney General during the...
    
    
  • Associate Attorney General
    United States Associate Attorney General
    The Associate Attorney General is the third-ranking official in the United States Department of Justice. The Associate Attorney General advises and assists the Attorney General and the Deputy Attorney General in policies relating to civil justice, federal and local law enforcement, and public...
    
    
  • Assistant Attorney General
    United States Assistant Attorney General
    Many of the divisions and offices of the United States Department of Justice are headed by an Assistant Attorney General.The President of the United States appoints individuals to the position of Assistant Attorney General with the advice and consent of the Senate...
    
     - Antitrust Division
    United States Department of Justice Antitrust Division
    The United States Department of Justice Antitrust Division is responsible for enforcing the antitrust laws of the United States. It shares jurisdiction over civil antitrust cases with the Federal Trade Commission and often works jointly with the FTC to provide regulatory guidance to businesses...
    
    
  • Assistant Attorney General - Office of Justice Programs
    Office of Justice Programs
    The Office of Justice Programs is an agency of the United States Department of Justice that focuses on crime prevention through research and development, assistance to state and local law enforcement and criminal justice agencies through grants, and assistance to crime victims.The major bureaus...
    
    
  • Assistant Attorney General - Office of Legal Counsel
    Office of Legal Counsel
    The Office of Legal Counsel is an office in the United States Department of Justice that assists the Attorney General in his function as legal adviser to the President and all executive branch agencies.-History:...
    
    
  • Assistant Attorney General - Office of Legal Policy
    Office of Legal Policy
    The Office of Legal Policy is a division within the United States Department of Justice which describes itself as the "focal point for the development and coordination of Departmental policy." In addition to rendering legal advice to the United States Attorney General and subordinate offices within...
    
    
  • Assistant Attorney General - Office of Legislative Affairs
    Office of Legislative Affairs
    The Office of Legislative Affairs is a division within the United States Department of Justice. Its responsibility is for the development and implementation of strategies to advance the Department's legislative initiatives and other interests relating to Congress....
    
    
  • Assistant Attorney General - Civil Division
    United States Department of Justice Civil Division
    The United States Department of Justice Civil Division represents the United States, its departments and agencies, Members of Congress, Cabinet officers and other Federal employees...
    
    
  • Assistant Attorney General - Civil Rights Division
    United States Department of Justice Civil Rights Division
    The U.S. Department of Justice Civil Rights Division is the institution within the federal government responsible for enforcing federal statutes prohibiting discrimination on the basis of race, sex, disability, religion, and national origin. The Division was established on December 9, 1957, by...
    
    
  • Assistant Attorney General - Criminal Division
    United States Department of Justice Criminal Division
    The U.S. Department of Justice Criminal Division develops, enforces, and supervises the application of all federal criminal laws in the United States, except those specifically assigned to other divisions. Criminal Division attorneys prosecute many nationally significant cases and formulate and...
    
    
  • Assistant Attorney General - Environment and Natural Resources Division
    United States Department of Justice Environment and Natural Resources Division
    The U.S. Department of Justice Environment and Natural Resources Division is one of seven litigating components of the United States Department of Justice...
    
    
  • Assistant Attorney General - National Security Division
    United States Department of Justice National Security Division
    The United States Department of Justice National Security Division is the division of the DOJ that handles all national security functions of the Department. Created by the 2005 USA PATRIOT Act reauthorization, the Division consolidated all of the Department's national security and intelligence...
    
    
  • Assistant Attorney General - Tax Division
    United States Department of Justice Tax Division
    The United States Department of Justice Tax Division is responsible for the prosecution of both civil and criminal cases arising under the Internal Revenue Code and other tax laws of the United States...
    
    
  • Administrator - Drug Enforcement Administration
    Drug Enforcement Administration
    The Drug Enforcement Administration is a federal law enforcement agency under the United States Department of Justice, tasked with combating drug smuggling and use within the United States...
    
    
  • Administrator - Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention
    Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention
    The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention is an office of the United States Department of Justice and a component of the Office of Justice Programs....
    
    
  • Deputy Administrator - Drug Enforcement Administration
    Drug Enforcement Administration
    The Drug Enforcement Administration is a federal law enforcement agency under the United States Department of Justice, tasked with combating drug smuggling and use within the United States...
    
    
  • Director - Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives
    Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives
    The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives is a federal law enforcement organization within the United States Department of Justice...
    
    
  • Director - Bureau of Justice Assistance
    Bureau of Justice Assistance
    The Bureau of Justice Assistance is a component of the Office of Justice Programs, within the United States Department of Justice.On Monday, December 13, 2010, President Barack Obama sent to the U.S. Senate the nomination of Denise Ellen O'Donnell, of New York, to be the Director of the Bureau, in...
    
    
  • Director - Bureau of Justice Statistics
  • Director - Community Relations Service
    Community Relations Service
    The Community Relations Service is part of the United States Department of Justice. The office is intended as a peacemaker "for community conflicts and tensions arising from differences of race, color, and national origin" and was created by the Civil Rights Act of 1964...
    
     (four-year term of office)
  • Director - Federal Bureau of Investigation
    Federal Bureau of Investigation
    The Federal Bureau of Investigation is an agency of the United States Department of Justice that serves as both a federal criminal investigative body and an internal intelligence agency . The FBI has investigative jurisdiction over violations of more than 200 categories of federal crime...
    
     (10-year term of office)
  • Director - National Institute of Justice
    National Institute of Justice
    The National Institute of Justice is the research, development and evaluation agency of the United States Department of Justice. NIJ, along with the Bureau of Justice Statistics , Bureau of Justice Assistance , Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention , Office for Victims of Crime ,...
    
    
  • Director - Office for Victims of Crime
    Office for Victims of Crime
    The Office for Victims of Crime is a part of the Office of Justice Programs, within the U.S. Department of Justice.The OVC's mission is to provide aid and promote justice for crime victims....
    
    
  • Director - Office on Violence Against Women
    Office on Violence Against Women
    The Office on Violence Against Women , a component of the U.S. Department of Justice, provides national leadership in developing the nation's capacity to reduce violence against women through the implementation of the Violence Against Women Act ....
    
    
  • Director - United States Marshals Service
    United States Marshals Service
    The United States Marshals Service is a United States federal law enforcement agency within the United States Department of Justice . The office of U.S. Marshal is the oldest federal law enforcement office in the United States; it was created by the Judiciary Act of 1789...
    
    
  • Inspector General
    United States Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General
    The Office of the Inspector General for the Department of Justice is the Office of the Inspector General specific to the United States Department of Justice that is responsible for conducting nearly all of the investigations of DOJ employees and programs. The present Inspector General is Glenn A...
    
    
  • Solicitor General
    United States Solicitor General
    The United States Solicitor General is the person appointed to represent the federal government of the United States before the Supreme Court of the United States. The current Solicitor General, Donald B. Verrilli, Jr. was confirmed by the United States Senate on June 6, 2011 and sworn in on June...
    
    
  • Special Counsel - Immigration-Related Unfair Employment Practices
    Office of Special Counsel for Immigration-Related Unfair Employment Practices
    The Office of Special Counsel for Immigration-Related Unfair Employment Practices , in the Civil Rights Division of the United States Department of Justice, is responsible for enforcing the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 , which protects US citizens and certain other individual from...
    
     (four-year term of office)
  • United States Attorney
    United States Attorney
    United States Attorneys represent the United States federal government in United States district court and United States court of appeals. There are 93 U.S. Attorneys stationed throughout the United States, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, and the Northern Mariana Islands...
    
     - 93 positions (four-year terms of office)
  • United States Marshal
    United States Marshals Service
    The United States Marshals Service is a United States federal law enforcement agency within the United States Department of Justice . The office of U.S. Marshal is the oldest federal law enforcement office in the United States; it was created by the Judiciary Act of 1789...
    
     - 94 positions (four-year terms of office)

• Foreign Claims Settlement Commission
  Foreign Claims Settlement Commission
  The Foreign Claims Settlement Commission of the United States is a quasi-judicial, independent agency within the U.S. Department of Justice which adjudicates claims of U.S. nationals against foreign governments, either under specific jurisdiction conferred by Congress or pursuant to international...
  
  
  • Chair (three-year term of office; nominated from among commissioner members - See additional listing under part-time positions below.)

• Office of National Drug Control Policy
  Office of National Drug Control Policy
  The White House Office of National Drug Control Policy , a former cabinet level component of the Executive Office of the President of the United States, was established in 1989 by the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1988...
  
   (Executive Office of the President)
  • Director ("Drug Czar
    Drug Czar
    Drug Czar is an informal name for the person who directs drug-control policies in the United States, following the U.S. use of the 'czar' term. The 'drug czar' title was first published in a 1982 news story by United Press International which reported that “Senators... voted 62–34 to establish a...
    
    ")
  • Deputy Director
  • Deputy Director - Demand Reduction
  • Deputy Director - State and Local Affairs
  • Deputy Director - Supply Reduction

• United States courts of appeals
  United States court of appeals
  The United States courts of appeals are the intermediate appellate courts of the United States federal court system...
  
  
  • Judges - 179 positions (life tenure)

• United States Court of Federal Claims
  United States Court of Federal Claims
  The United States Court of Federal Claims is a United States federal court that hears monetary claims against the U.S. government. The court is established pursuant to Congress's authority under Article One of the United States Constitution...
  
  
  • Judges - 16 positions (15-year terms of office)

• United States Court of International Trade
  United States Court of International Trade
  The United States Court of International Trade is an Article III court, with full powers in law and equity. The Customs Court Act of 1980 replaced the old United States Customs Court with the United States Court of International Trade. The Court has nine sitting Judges, as well as Senior Judges...
  
   (life tenure)
  • Judges - nine positions (political balance required)

• United States district court
  United States district court
  The United States district courts are the general trial courts of the United States federal court system. Both civil and criminal cases are filed in the district court, which is a court of law, equity, and admiralty. There is a United States bankruptcy court associated with each United States...
  
  
  • Judges - 678 positions. Most are life tenure; in total there are 663 permanent judgeships, 11 temporary judgeships, and four territorial court judgeships. In the districts with the 11 temporary judgeships, the seat lapses with the departure of a judge from that district at some particular time specified in statute unless Congress enacts legislation to extend the temporary judgeship or convert it to a permanent judgeship.

• United States Parole Commission
  United States Parole Commission
  The United States Parole Commission is the parole board responsible to grant or deny parole and to supervise those released on parole to incarcerated individuals who come under its jurisdiction. It is part of the United States Department of Justice....
  
  
  • Member - five positions (six-year term of office)

• United States Sentencing Commission
  United States Sentencing Commission
  The United States Sentencing Commission is an independent agency of the judicial branch of the federal government of the United States. It is responsible for articulating the sentencing guidelines for the United States federal courts...
  
  
  • Chair - (six-year term of office; nominated from among commission members; see additional listing under part-time positions below.)
  • Vice Chair - three positions (six-year terms of office; designated from among commission members — See additional listing under part-time positions below.)

• Supreme Court of the United States
  Supreme Court of the United States
  The Supreme Court of the United States is the highest court in the United States. It has ultimate appellate jurisdiction over all state and federal courts, and original jurisdiction over a small range of cases...
  
  
  • Chief Justice of the United States
    Chief Justice of the United States
    The Chief Justice of the United States is the head of the United States federal court system and the chief judge of the Supreme Court of the United States. The Chief Justice is one of nine Supreme Court justices; the other eight are the Associate Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States...
    
     (life tenure)
  • Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
    Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
    Associate Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States are the members of the Supreme Court of the United States other than the Chief Justice of the United States...
    
     - eight positions (life tenure)

• Foreign Claims Settlement Commission
  Foreign Claims Settlement Commission
  The Foreign Claims Settlement Commission of the United States is a quasi-judicial, independent agency within the U.S. Department of Justice which adjudicates claims of U.S. nationals against foreign governments, either under specific jurisdiction conferred by Congress or pursuant to international...
  
  
  • Member - three positions (three-year terms of office — One of the three members is also nominated to be the full-time chair of the commission, as shown above)
• State Justice Institute, Board of Directors
  • Director - 11 positions (three-year terms of office)
• United States Sentencing Commission
  United States Sentencing Commission
  The United States Sentencing Commission is an independent agency of the judicial branch of the federal government of the United States. It is responsible for articulating the sentencing guidelines for the United States federal courts...
  
   (political balance required)**Commissioner - seven positions (six-year terms of office - One of the seven members is also nominated to be the full-time chair of the commission, and two others are designated as full-time vice-chairs)

Committee on Rules and Administration

• Architect - Architect of the Capitol
  Architect of the Capitol
  The Architect of the Capitol is the federal agency responsible for the maintenance, operation, development, and preservation of the United States Capitol Complex, and also the head of that agency. The Architect of the Capitol is in the legislative branch and is responsible to the United States...
  
  
• Commissioner - Election Assistance Commission
  Election Assistance Commission
  The Election Assistance Commission is an independent agency of the United States government created by the Help America Vote Act of 2002 . The Commission serves as a national clearinghouse and resource of information regarding election administration...
  
   (four positions; four-year terms of office; political balance required)
• Commissioner - Federal Election Commission
  Federal Election Commission
  The Federal Election Commission is an independent regulatory agency that was founded in 1975 by the United States Congress to regulate the campaign finance legislation in the United States. It was created in a provision of the 1975 amendment to the Federal Election Campaign Act...
  
   (six positions; six-year terms of office; political balance required)
• Public Printer
  Public Printer of the United States
  The title of Public Printer of the United States refers to the official head of the Government Printing Office . Pursuant to , this officer must be nominated by the President of the United States and approved by the United States Senate...
  
   - Government Printing Office
• Librarian - Library of Congress
  Library of Congress
  The Library of Congress is the research library of the United States Congress, de facto national library of the United States, and the oldest federal cultural institution in the United States. Located in three buildings in Washington, D.C., it is the largest library in the world by shelf space and...
  
  

Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship

• Small Business Administration
  Small Business Administration
  The Small Business Administration is a United States government agency that provides support to entrepreneurs and small businesses. The mission of the Small Business Administration is "to maintain and strengthen the nation's economy by enabling the establishment and viability of small businesses...
  
  
  • Administrator
  • Deputy Administrator
  • Chief Counsel for Advocacy
  • Inspector General

Committee on Veterans' Affairs

• Department of Labor
  United States Department of Labor
  The United States Department of Labor is a Cabinet department of the United States government responsible for occupational safety, wage and hour standards, unemployment insurance benefits, re-employment services, and some economic statistics. Many U.S. states also have such departments. The...
  
  
  • Assistant Secretary of Labor for Veterans' Employment and Training Service

• Department of Veterans Affairs
  United States Department of Veterans Affairs
  The United States Department of Veterans Affairs is a government-run military veteran benefit system with Cabinet-level status. It is the United States government’s second largest department, after the United States Department of Defense...
  
  
  • Secretary of Veterans Affairs
    United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs
    The United States Secretary of Veterans' Affairs is the head of the United States Department of Veterans Affairs, the department concerned with veterans' benefits and related matters...
    
    
  • Deputy Secretary of Veterans Affairs
    United States Deputy Secretary of Veterans Affairs
    The Deputy Secretary of Veterans Affairs, in the United States government, is the chief operating officer of the United States Department of Veterans Affairs, responsible for a nationwide system of health care services, benefits programs, and national cemeteries for America's veterans and their...
    
    
  • Under Secretary of Veterans Affairs for Benefits
    Under Secretary of Veterans Affairs for Benefits
    The Under Secretary for Benefits, in the United States Department of Veterans Affairs, directs the Veterans Benefits Administration through regional offices in 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines...
    
     (four-year term of office)
  • Under Secretary of Veterans Affairs for Health
    Under Secretary of Veterans Affairs for Health
    The Under Secretary of Veterans Affairs for Health is a position in the United States Department of Veterans Affairs. The Undersecretary is the highest official directly responsible for the largest agency within the department, the Veterans Health Administration, commonly called the 'VA'...
    
     (four-year term of office)
  • Under Secretary of Veterans Affairs for Memorial Affairs
  • Assistant Secretary of Veterans Affairs for Congressional and Legislative Affairs
  • Assistant Secretary of Veterans Affairs for Human Resources and Administration
  • Assistant Secretary of Veterans Affairs for Information and Technology
  • Assistant Secretary of Veterans Affairs for Management and Chief Financial Officer
  • Assistant Secretary of Veterans Affairs for Operations, Security, and Preparedness
  • Assistant Secretary of Veterans Affairs for Policy and Planning
  • Assistant Secretary of Veterans Affairs for Public and Intergovernmental Affairs
  • Chair, Board of Veterans Appeals (six-year term of office)
  • General Counsel
  • Inspector General

• United States Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims
  United States Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims
  The United States Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims is a federal court of record that was established under Article I of the United States Constitution...
  
  
  • Judge - three-seven positions (15-year terms of office)

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