[Right Wing Professor]

Actually, yes.. Presidential Appointee lists are public domain and he isn't listed... If you track back the link to his name and Presidential Appointee, it started in the Blogs, not in legit news sources or government appointee lists.. none of which also point out his grandfather was a legend at NASA and seems a much more logical way for him to get the job at NASA. Presidential Appointees http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/nominations/indexC-E.html

Google 'schedule c federal appointment' and get back to me. Your list is a very small subset of all patronage appointments.

[clawrence3]

I know what a Schedule C appointment - FYI the Google search on "schedule c federal appointment" comes up empty ; )

[mnehring]

Google 'schedule c federal appointment' and get back to me.

http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rls=GGLG,GGLG:2005-24,GGLG:en&q=%22schedule+c+federal+appointment%22