DAILY BRIEFING
Top Slots Filling Up
The Clinton administration will end the first year of its second term with 78 percent of the senior jobs in Cabinet-level agencies filled, The Washington Post reported Tuesday.
Throughout the administration's first term fewer than half of the top jobs in government were filled with Clinton appointees.
"I am pleased this transition has been so successful," White House personnel chief Bob Nash told the Post. "We are almost at full employment."
Eighty-three positions are currently vacant, but some of those positions are actually filled by someone serving in an acting capacity pending confirmation. The administration has nominated an additional 27 people for the remaining jobs, but the Senate did not act on those nominations before it recessed.
The White House expects to have at least 30 more nominations ready to submit to the Senate in January.
Agencies with the highest number of vacancies include the departments of Housing and Urban Development, Labor and Commerce and the Environmental Protection Agency.
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