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Publication Date: July 1995
Publisher: Heritage Foundation (Washington, D.C.)
Author(s): Patrick Korten
Research Area: Government
Keywords: Government reform
Type: Report
Abstract:
Members of Congress considering proposed personnel cuts must realize that reducing the number of executive branch political appointees by 800 simply will mean that those jobs will be taken over by members of the career bureaucracy-the permanent government. Without the guidance and direction of a sufficient number of appointees responsible to the President, the results inevitably will be to frustrate change and innovation and to enhance the power of the government leviathan.