Maybe for upper management -- i.e., the headquarters staff (GS-14s and above).
My husband worked for INS, and was so hampered by the Clinton/Gore mandates to let EVERYONE in that he quit. (Of course, now INS is reaping the benefits of dropping any background checks through NCIC.)
Part of the problem is that headquarters so mistreats their people that all the decent, intelligent hard workers quit or transfer to another agency as soon as they can. While he worked for INS, we couldn't afford jack $h!t. The yearly "raises" were often below the cost-of-living increases, the health benefits sucked @$$ and dealing with death threats (literally!) from pi$$ed-off deportees and "upstanding Americans" alike was quite enought to send him screaming to the private sector.
Hmmm...sounds like life in the military under Clinton.