List of Positions Filled By Presidential Appointment With Senate Confirmation - Committee On Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions

Committee On Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions

• Department of Education
  • Secretary
  • Deputy Secretary
  • Director, Institute of Education Sciences (six-year term of office)
  • Under Secretary
  • Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights - runs the Office for Civil Rights
  • Assistant Secretary for Communications and Outreach - runs the Office of Communications and Outreach
  • Assistant Secretary for Elementary and Secondary Education - runs the Office of Elementary and Secondary Education
  • Assistant Secretary for Legislation and Congressional Affairs
  • Assistant Secretary for Planning, Evaluation and Policy Development - runs the Office of Planning, Evaluation, and Policy Development
  • Assistant Secretary for Postsecondary Education - runs the Office of Postsecondary Education
  • Assistant Secretary for Special Education and Rehabilitative Services - runs the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services
  • Assistant Secretary for Vocational and Adult Education - runs the Office of Vocational and Adult Education
  • Chief Financial Officer
  • Commissioner - Rehabilitation Services Administration
  • General Counsel
  • Inspector General

• Department of Health and Human Services
  • Administrator — Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
  • Assistant Secretary for Aging
  • Assistant Secretary for Health
  • Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response
  • Commissioner of Food and Drugs
  • Director - National Institutes of Health
  • Surgeon General (four-year term of office)

• Department of Labor
  • Secretary of Labor
  • Deputy Secretary of Labor
  • Assistant Secretary for Congressional and Intergovernmental Affairs
  • Assistant Secretary for Disability Employment Policy
  • Assistant Secretary for Employee Benefits Security Administration
  • Assistant Secretary for Employment Standards Administration
  • Assistant Secretary for Employment and Training Administration
  • Assistant Secretary for Mine Safety and Health Administration
  • Assistant Secretary for Occupational Safety and Health Administration
  • Assistant Secretary for Policy
  • Assistant Secretary for Veterans' Employment and Training Service
  • Administrator - Wage and Hour Division
  • Chief Financial Officer
  • Commissioner - Bureau of Labor Statistics
  • Inspector General
  • Solicitor

• Corporation for National and Community Service
  • Chief Executive Officer
  • Chief Financial Officer
  • Inspector General

• Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (political balance required)
  • Commissioner — five positions (five-year terms of office)
  • General Counsel (four-year term of office)

• Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service
  • Director

• Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission
  • Commissioner — five positions (six-year terms of office)

• National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities
  • National Endowment for the Arts - Chair (four-year term of office)
  • National Endowment for the Humanities - Chair (four-year term of office)
  • Institute of Museum and Library Services - Director (four-year term of office)

• National Labor Relations Board (Political balance is not required, but, by tradition, no more than three members are from the same party.)
  • Member - five positions (five-year terms of office)
  • General Counsel (four-year term of office)

• National Mediation Board (political balance required)
  • Member - three positions (three-year terms of office)

• National Science Foundation
  • Director (six-year term of office)
  • Deputy Director

• Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission
  • Member - three positions (six-year terms of office)

• Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation
  • Director

• Railroad Retirement Board
  • Member - three positions (five-year terms of office; chair, who first must be appointed as a member, also needs to be confirmed.)
  • Inspector General

• Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation, Board of Trustees (political balance required)
  • Member - eight (of 13 total) positions (six-year terms of office)

• Corporation for National and Community Service, Board of Directors (political balance required)
  • Member - 15 positions (five-year terms of office)

• Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation, Board of Trustees (political balance required)
  • Member - eight (of 13 total) positions (six-year terms of office)

• James Madison Memorial Fellowship Foundation, Board of Trustees (political balance required)
  • Member - six (of 13 total) positions (six-year terms of office)

• Legal Services Corporation Board of Directors (political balance required)
  • Member - 11 positions (three-year terms of office)

• National Commission on Libraries and Information Science
  • Member - 14 (of 15 total) positions (five-year terms of office)

• National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities
  • National Council on the Arts
    • Member - 14 positions (of 21 total) positions (six-year terms of office)
  • National Council on the Humanities
    • Member - 26 positions (of 27 total) positions (six-year terms of office)

• United States Institute of Peace, Board of Directors (political balance required)
  • Member - 12 (of 15 total) positions (four-year terms of office)