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Correction: We wrongly wrote that the federal assembly responsible for electing the German president included appointees from the states to the Bundesrat.

In fact, any investigation would require consent from at least eight members of the commission, with at least two yes votes by appointees from the same party and branch of government as the subject of the investigation.

Representative Mike Rogers, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, said the talking points had been amended during a review by an interdepartmental "deputies committee," which he described as being "populated by appointees from the administration".

He is chosen by a federal assembly of roughly 1,200 notables, half of them from the Bundestag, the federal parliament's lower house, and the rest appointees from the German states.

In 1998 and 1999, I served with members of Congress and other appointees from the private sector on the bipartisan National Commission on Retirement Policy, a panel sponsored by the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

But most of those agencies did not have real autonomy, reporting instead to Mr. Menem, and were run by appointees from the very industries they were supposed to oversee.

To prevent the governor's appointees from dominating, the officials said, the panel would need a supermajority of seven members to pick each member of the ethics commission.

But along with three directors named by Barnes & Noble, Barnesandnoble.com's nine-member board also includes three appointees from Bertelsmann, the media giant based in Gütersloh, Germany, and the parent company of Random House.

Critics point to the government's inability to reach consensus on issues as diverse as plans for a cultural district in West Kowloon in 2004 and a Goods and Services Tax to diversify its revenue base last year.Mr Tung tried to tackle the problem in 2002 by filling some of the top civil-service posts with political appointees from business, the professions and academia.

The last appointee from the southern counties, according to the State Judiciary, was Vincent Haneman of Brigantine, sworn in as an associate justice on Nov. 28, 1960.

A Harvard-educated economist, Bernanke, 55, is a rare appointee from the Bush administration to find favour with the White House under President Obama.