Sentence examples for appointees confirmed from inspiring English sources

In between, he'd said Democrats were right to start asking whether the Supreme Court should be expanded beyond nine members, to neutralize the Republican appointees confirmed since 2017.

White House officials said they were determined to move swiftly and boasted that they tied the record of President Franklin D. Roosevelt of having six cabinet appointees confirmed and sworn in on the first day.

"Obama has set the record for the slowest process since J.F.K.," Mr. Light said, as measured by the length of time it has taken to get his first class of roughly 550 appointees confirmed.

Faced with the possibility that they might never be able to seat judges that they hoped would act as a counterweight to more conservative appointees confirmed when George W. Bush was president, all but three of the 55 members of the Senate Democratic caucus sided with Mr. Reid.

At this point, Trump has 43 confirmed appointees to senior posts, compared with the 151 top political appointees confirmed by mid-June in President Barack Obama's first term and the 130 under President George W. Bush, according to data tracked by The Post and the nonpartisan Partnership for Public Service's Center for Presidential Transition.

Staffing levels for the first week of a lapse in appropriations include only Presidential appointees confirmed by the Senate (PAS) and those who would perform certain functions or whose furlough would pose a serious problem for excepted activities, including a threat to life or property.

Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner is the only political appointee confirmed in his department.

Dr. Jaczko is a White House appointee, confirmed by the Senate, who used to work on the staff of the majority leader, Senator Harry Reid of Nevada.

"In an ideal world, on Day 1 everyone starts," said Lisa P. Jackson, the Environmental Protection Agency administrator and the only political appointee confirmed at her office.

Warren notes that when President Ronald Reagan was working with a Democratic-led Senate, about 80percentt of his noncontroversial judicial appointees were confirmed within 100 days of being nominated, including Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy, who won confirmation in the election year of 1988. .

At this point in Obama's presidency, 721 appointees were confirmed.