Sentence examples for consider nominees for from inspiring English sources

The Senate Judiciary Committee is expected to consider nominees for six superior court judgeships at a committee meeting scheduled for Dec. 14 as part of an effort to fill 42 judicial vacancies.

Congress rarely raises the issue of management when considering nominees for large, complicated cabinet agencies, many of which are larger than big corporations.

Both Sanders and Clinton have said that they would use a litmus test in considering nominees for the Supreme Court to ensure that any new justice would be committed to reversing the doctrine that unlimited campaign spending is the same thing as free speech.

In May 2012, for example, the Senate was still considering nominees from the prior year, the aide said.

It would be best for the Senate, the president's nominees and the country if we return to a more open and rational debate about ideology when we consider nominees.

The Republican leader spent much of the 2014 campaign ripping Reid to shreds for eliminating the 60-vote threshold requirement for considering nominees, saying over and over that Reid was "breaking the rules to change the rules".

For Democrats the importance of considering nominees in a highly deliberate fashion, including assessing their ideological outlooks, is similarly suddenly important.

As Mr. Obama said in the Rose Garden, one of his "most important responsibilities" is to nominate people of intellect and experience, and the Senate has "a constitutional duty to promptly consider judicial nominees for confirmation".

Senate Republicans want to replace the job of director with a commission and reorganize the agency before they will consider any nominee for confirmation.

In a two-minute speech on the Senate floor, he proposed that it should not consider a nominee for the Court in "the full throes of an election year," because "once the political season is underway" it would be unfair to the nominee and to the Senate as an institution.

refused to consider a nominee for a vacancy that arose in an election year.