COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENT REFORM 

TOM DAVIS, Virginia, Chairman 

DAN BURTON, Indiana 

CHRISTOPHER SHAYS, Connecticut 

ILEANA ROS-LEHTINEN, Florida 

JOHN M. MCHUGH, New York 

JOHN L. MICA, Florida 

MARK E. SOUDER, Indiana 

STEVEN C. LATOURETTE, Ohio 

DOUG OSE, California 

RON LEWIS, Kentucky 

TODD RUSSELL PLATTS, Pennsylvania 

CHRIS CANNON, Utah 

ADAM H. PUTNAM, Florida 

EDWARD L. SCHROCK, Virginia 

JOHN J. DUNCAN, JR., Tennessee 

NATHAN DEAL, Georgia 

CANDICE S. MILLER, Michigan 

TIM MURPHY, Pennsylvania 

MICHAEL R. TURNER, Ohio 

JOHN R. CARTER, Texas 

MARSHA BLACKBURN, Tennessee 

PATRICK J. TIBERI, Ohio 

KATHERINE HARRIS, Florida 

MICHAEL C. BURGESS, Texas 

HENRY A. WAXMAN, California 

TOM LANTOS, California 

MAJOR R. OWENS, New York 

EDOLPHUS TOWNS, New York 

PAUL E. KANJORSKI, Pennsylvania 

CAROLYN B. MALONEY, New York 

ELIJAH E. CUMMINGS, Maryland 

DENNIS J. KUCINICH, Ohio 

DANNY K. DAVIS, Illinois 

JOHN F. TIERNEY, Massachusetts 

WM. LACY CLAY, Missouri 

DIANE E. WATSON, California 

STEPHEN F. LYNCH, Massachusetts 

CHRIS VAN HOLLEN, Maryland 

LINDA T. SANCHEZ, California 

C.A. ‘‘DUTCH’’ RUPPERSBERGER, 

Maryland 

ELEANOR HOLMES NORTON, District of 

Columbia 

JIM COOPER, Tennessee 

BETTY MCCOLLUM, Minnesota 

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BERNARD SANDERS, Vermont 

(Independent) 

MELISSA WOJCIAK, Staff Director 

DAVID MARIN, Deputy Staff Director/Communications Director 

ROB BORDEN, Parliamentarian 

BRIAN STOUT, Professional Staff Member 

TERESA AUSTIN, Chief Clerk 

PHIL BARNETT, Minority Chief of Staff/Chief Counsel 

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FOREWORD 

Every four years, just after the Presidential election, the ‘‘United States 

Government Policy and Supporting Positions,’’ commonly known as the 

Plum Book, is published, alternately, by the Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs and the House Committee on Government Reform. 

This publication contains data (as of September 30, 2004) on over 7,000 

Federal civil service leadership and support positions in the legislative 

and executive branches of the Federal Government that may be subject 

to noncompetitive appointment (e.g., positions such as agency heads and 

their immediate subordinates, policy executives and advisors, and aides 

who report to these officials). The duties of many such positions may involve 

advocacy of Administration policies and programs and the incumbents usually have a close and confidential working relationship with the agency 

head or other key officials. 

Following are the major categories of positions listed: 

• Executive Schedule and salary-equivalent positions paid at the rates 

established for levels I through V of the Executive Schedule; 

• Senior Executive Service ‘‘General’’ positions; 

• Senior Foreign Service positions; 

• Schedule C positions excepted from the competitive service by the President, or by the Director, Office of Personnel Management, because 

of the confidential or policy-determining nature of the position duties. 

• Other positions at the GS–14 and above level excepted from the competitive civil service by law because of the confidential or policy-determining nature of the position duties. 

See Appendix 2 for more details on SES appointments and Appendix 

3 for more details on Schedule C appointments. 

Additional information on the positions listed and the Federal salary 

schedules under which they are paid is provided in the appendices. The 

Legend on the following page shows the codes and acronyms used in this 

publication. 

DISCLAIMER 

The information for this committee print was provided by the 

Office of Personnel Management [OPM].