(Last month Mr Chávez named Nicolás Maduro, his vice-president, as his successor, but he is an appointed official, not an elected one, and his appointment expires with the presidential term in which he was named).
The recess appointment expires late next year.
When Reid's Gaming Commission appointment expired, in 1981, he went back to private practice.
After Craig Becker's appointment expires in December, the board will shrink to two members.
Mr. Hormel's appointment expired last month, when the last Congress went out of session.
The ruling was completed on Tuesday and signed by two Democratic members, before one of those Democrats, Craig Becker, stepped down that day as his recess appointment expired.
Also, an executive nomination is like a law that has a sunset provision: the appointment expires automatically when the Presidency changes hands.
"I thought the policy had been moving in the wrong direction for quite some time," Mr. Bolton said of his decision to leave when his recess appointment expired with the last Congress at the end of December.
If the primary appointment expires, your Scholars profile disappears.
Once the judge's appointment expires, Parliament is required to make a proposal that satisfies the established quota (3/5 in the case of the Spanish Constitutional Court).
He will take over the editorship on 1 June 2000 from Floyd Bloom, who announced last year that he would not seek a second 5-year term when his current appointment expires in May 2000.
