The homeland security bill calls for a total of 20 other presidential appointees who would require Senate confirmation, including a deputy secretary, five undersecretaries and up to 12 assistant secretaries.

There is a total of 1,937 instructional faculty members, 1,303 adjunct professors, and 183 post-doctoral appointees.

Each member of Congress, either in the House of Representatives or the Senate, is allowed a total of five appointees in each service academy.

Ireland in 2006 had more than 800 quangos, 482 at national and 350 at local level, with a total of 5,784 individual appointees and a combined annual budget of €13 billion.