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<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">One correction:
political appointees in the United States are subjected to
public scrutiny only if they encumber "PAS" (Presidentially
Appointed, Senate-confirmed) positions, which are defined by
law.[1] The rest of the roughly 4,000 political appointments
(i.e., the majority) in the U.S. government are made with no
input from others, are made purely at the discretion of the
President, and are made behind closed doors. Furthermore, all
career appointments are made behind closed doors, and they
constitute the vast bulk of the U.S. government bureaucracy,
which numbers more than 2 million at last count.<br>
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<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">[1]
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_positions_filled_by_presidential_appointment_with_Senate_confirmation">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_positions_filled_by_presidential_appointment_with_Senate_confirmation</a><br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix"><font face="Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif">cheers,<br>
apm</font></div>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 1/31/2021 10:02 AM, Christoph
Hormann wrote:<br>
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cite="mid:202101311602.38132.chris_hormann@gmx.de">
<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">Practice for selecting political appointees is often significantly
different - both in Germany but especially also in the Anglo-American
culture sphere. Public hearings investigating the qualifications of
candidates are common practice there. It is in my experience fairly
rare that nomination, scrutiny and final selection of candidates in
case of political appointees all happen behind closed doors.</pre>
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