This came to the attention of President Reagan, and Mr. Abram was nominated to the United States Commission on Civil Rights in 1983.
Bob Dudley, the BP boss, is poised to make a triumphant return to Moscow after being nominated to the board of state-owned Rosneft by the country's prime minister, Dmitry Medvedev.
Mr. Liu, nominated to the San Francisco-based United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, is raising hackles on the right because of some of his legal views, and because he is seen as a strong candidate for the Supreme Court in the near future.
"I'm not sitting here annoyed that I've not gone to the first meeting," said Natalie Merchant, the musician and former lead singer of the rock band 10,000 Maniacs, whom Mr. Spitzer nominated to the State Council on the Arts.
A judge nominated to the State Superior Court by embattled Gov. John G. Rowland was soundly rejected Thursday by the Senate, the second time in eight days that a Rowland judicial nomination fell through.
By the time he testified before the State Senate Judiciary Committee, Mr. Verniero had been nominated to the State Supreme Court, was awaiting confirmation and had grudgingly come to the conclusion that -- oops! -- maybe profiling existed after all.
Several waterways in South Jersey were added last week to a list of about 4,000 miles of rivers and streams nominated to receive the state's highest level of protection and be declared off limits to developers.
Ideological purity tests and apocalyptic pessimism have become entrenched features of Republican politics.Last week, for example, "This American Life" reported on Josh Inglett, a 20-year-old student at the University of Wisconsin-Platteville whom Scott Walker, the state's Republican governor, nominated to serve on the state university system's board of regents.
Patricia Acampora, a state Assemblywoman and the party's county leader, has been nominated to serve on the state's Public Service Commission, which would oblige her to give up the party post; she is expected to resign by June 30.
Baxter, 74, was nominated to serve on the state's highest court in 1990 by then-Gov.
Rex Tillerson, Exxon Mobil's CEO, and former Texas Governor Rick Perry have been nominated to head the Departments of State and Energy.
