Opinion ID: 1907834
Heading Depth: 2
Heading Rank: 5

Heading: The Statute as a Whole.

Text: Considered in isolation, each of the three sections of the CMPA which we have discussed above might conceivably be viewed as inconclusive with respect to Ms. Clay's status. Read together, however, they establish to our satisfaction that she was properly placed in the Excepted Service. Notwithstanding its somewhat perplexing focus on attorneys and special appointees, Section 1-602.4(c) was intended to confer on transferred employees only those benefits and protections which they had enjoyed as federal or pre-CMPA employees. Sections 1-610.3(a)(3) and 1-610.7, as well as the implementing regulations, persuade us that GS-13 employees of the Council holding policy-making positions were never intended to become members of the Career Service. [14]