CRS Report on Presidential Transitions

The Congressional Research Service has issued a 35-page report entitled Presidential Transitions: Issues Involving Outgoing and Incoming Administrations (RL 34722).

Subjects covered include:

• "midnight" rulemaking
• executive orders
• agency and presidential records
• national security
• political appointments

CRS is a division of the Library of Congress that provides legal and policy analysis and research to members of Congress and Congressional committees. For more information on identifying and locating documents from this agency, see the Gallagher guide on Congressional Research Service Reports.