Center for American Progress, April 21, 2010 by Anne Joseph O’Connell
http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2010/04/waiting_for_leadership.html
This report offers politically feasible recommendations for both the White House and Senate, though these recommendations will take some real effort by the political branches. The White House and the Senate will have to make compromises—potentially more careerists in political positions and fewer holds on agency nominees, respectively, for example. But compromises are necessary to have a functioning and accountable modern bureaucracy.