Personnel Practices: Selected Characteristics of Recent Ramspeck Act
Appointments (Testimony, 05/24/95, GAO/T-GGD-95-173).

In this testimony on the use of the Ramspeck Act to noncompetitively
appoint congressional employees to career positions in the executive
branch, GAO focuses on the following: (1) the number, locations,
positions, and other characteristics of Ramspeck Act appointments; (2)
long-term trends related to the use of the Ramspeck Act hiring
authority; and (3) differences between Ramspeck Act hiring authority,
competitive procedures, and other excepted hiring authorities in terms
of skills required for positions.  GAO also discusses the extent to
which former congressional staff have recently attained federal jobs
through other hiring mechanisms.

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 REPORTNUM:  T-GGD-95-173
     TITLE:  Personnel Practices: Selected Characteristics of Recent 
             Ramspeck Act Appointments
      DATE:  05/24/95
   SUBJECT:  Personnel management
             Presidential transition
             Congressional employees
             Presidential appointments
             Civil service appointments
             Hiring policies
             Compliance
             Executive agencies
             Federal personnel legislation
             GS grade classification

             
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