[dandelany]

The data is from this dataset:

http://php.app.com/fed_employees11/search.php

...obtained by Asbury Park Press via a FOIA. It doesn’t include FBI, CIA, Defense Department, or IRS employees, or employees involved in security work, nuclear materials or national security matters.

[asveikau]

Judging by some of the names that are missing I am guessing congressional staff is also absent? And similarly, CBO?

Edit: Just after your quoted part it says:

> does not cover the White House, Congress, the Postal Service, and independent agencies and commissions.