Sentence examples for appointment hearings from inspiring English sources

In fact, according to the Boston Globe, Obama has presided over appointment hearings, but nothing more substantive: he took over the subcommittee just as the Presidential campaign began, and all the candidates have been AWOL since then.

Changes introduced in 2008, allow for select committees to hold pre-appointment hearings with government nominees for major posts.

Because they rarely speak before parliamentary committees or the media, or go through pre-appointment hearings, little is understood of them or what they do.

It would be unwise simply to sweep aside MPs' concerns, not least because doing so undermines the principle of pre-appointment hearings.

He proposed that MPs hold US-style pre-appointment hearings initially for senior public officials such as the chief inspector of prisons.

At present, only a handful of positions, such as the chair of the Environment Agency and the pensions ombudsman, are subject to pre-appointment hearings as a matter of course.

"It ought not be for the Government to decide [who is subject to pre-appointment hearings]." The Liberal Democrat MP Sir Alan Beith, who has been calling for MPs to have the power to veto certain public appointments as chair of the Liaison Committee, which brings together select committee leaders, said: "This is a helpful marker that has been put down by the defence committee.

Commons committees can currently hold pre-appointment hearings but cannot veto appointments.

During pre-appointment hearings before a Commons committee, he admitted he was not an EastEnders viewer.

I called the other day to change an appointment with my hearing-aid people, and it took two minutes, because they had everything on the computer.

In an effort to repent he chose Clarence Thomas with his next appointment, resulting in tumultuous hearings that featured allegations of sexual improprieties.