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Susan Lerner, the executive director of Common Cause-NY, a government watchdog group, said that the Council rarely asked any questions of potential appointees about their administrative experience, knowledge of election procedure, or relevant job qualifications.
This is perhaps the hour of greatest need for knowledgeable and experienced career officials because they have the access and opportunity to educate new political appointees about the value of many government programs.
Rather, some of the same career staff members who worked on the exhibits under the Obama administration informed Trump appointees about the museum and the fact that parts of it were not in line with their vision.
This is the president whose Justice Department asked nonpolitical appointees about their political allegiances (and researched their political activities).
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If Obama is going to criticize his own appointees, how about speaking out against the Treasury Department and the Justice Department for coddling banksters?
At the same time, the Senate approved, 89 to 8, a second proposal that would expedite consideration of appointees to about 250 positions on part-time boards and commissions, slicing the number of confirmable posts to 1,000 from about 1,400.
While political appointees comprised about 38percentt of Reagan's and Ford's ambassadors, they've been about 37percentt of Obama's, according to AFSA.
Of 1,834 top state jobs — including advisers to governors, department and commission heads — 643 were held by female appointees, or about 35percentt of the total.
No evidence has emerged that any White House official knew of the conduct until last month, but Treasury Deputy Secretary Neal Wolin and other political appointees learned about the IG probe last year.
At 100 days, Obama had 76 political appointees, or about 15percentt, confirmed.
It's a lesser known, less glamorous aspect of the big gig, but a new article in the Wall Street Journal takes a deep dive into the details, with past appointees talking about their time serving what Ruth Bader Ginsburg called "a truly disheartening assignment".
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