Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "According to the United States Office of Government Ethics, a political appointee is “any employee who is appointed by the President, the Vice President, or agency head”. In the United States, political appointees are subject to heavy ethical restrictions, more so than their elected counterparts. One of these restrictions requires political appointees to take an ethics pledge, in which they pledge not to accept gifts from lobbyists. This is because of Executive Order 13490 Under Section 102 of Executive Order 12674, political appointees who are appointed by the president are not allowed to receive any income from outside employment or activities.Exceptions to the gift rule include: \tTitle 3 U.S.C. §105 or 3 U.S.C. §107(a) positions whose basic pay is below GS-9 on the U.S. civil service pay scale \tPositions within a White House operating unit that is designated as not normally subject to change as a result of a presidential transition \tPositions within the uniformed services \tU.S. Foreign Service positions that do not require Senate confirmation↑ ↑ ↑"@en }
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- Political_appointments_in_the_United_States abstract "According to the United States Office of Government Ethics, a political appointee is “any employee who is appointed by the President, the Vice President, or agency head”. In the United States, political appointees are subject to heavy ethical restrictions, more so than their elected counterparts. One of these restrictions requires political appointees to take an ethics pledge, in which they pledge not to accept gifts from lobbyists. This is because of Executive Order 13490 Under Section 102 of Executive Order 12674, political appointees who are appointed by the president are not allowed to receive any income from outside employment or activities.Exceptions to the gift rule include: \tTitle 3 U.S.C. §105 or 3 U.S.C. §107(a) positions whose basic pay is below GS-9 on the U.S. civil service pay scale \tPositions within a White House operating unit that is designated as not normally subject to change as a result of a presidential transition \tPositions within the uniformed services \tU.S. Foreign Service positions that do not require Senate confirmation↑ ↑ ↑".