Pub. L. 103-329, tit. VI (as amended)

626.(a)None of the funds appropriated by this or any other Act may be obligated or expended by any Federal department, agency, or other instrumentality for the salaries or expenses of any employee appointed to a position of a confidential or policy-determining character excepted from the competitive service pursuant to section 3302 of title 5, United States Code, without a certification to the Office of Personnel Management from the head of the Federal department, agency, or other instrumentality employing the Schedule C appointee that the Schedule C position was not created solely or primarily in order to detail the employee to the White House.(b)The provisions of this section shall not apply to Federal employees or members of the armed services detailed to or from—(1)the Central Intelligence Agency;(2)the National Security Agency;(3)the Defense Intelligence Agency;(4)the offices within the Department of Defense for the collection of specialized national foreign intelligence through reconnaissance programs;(5)the Bureau of Intelligence and Research of the Department of State;(6)any agency, office, or unit of the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Drug Enforcement Administration of the Department of Justice, the Department of Transportation, the Department of the Treasury, and the Department of Energy performing intelligence functions; and(7)the Director of Central Intelligence.