Sentences with phrase «confirmed presidential appointee»
Recall that the head of NCES differs from other IES commissioners in being a Senate - confirmed presidential appointee with a fixed term.
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Opponents of the U.S. Senate tradition of the filibuster — or the extensive debate on the floor of the federal upper house geared toward preventing a vote on legislation or confirming a presidential appointee — certainly don't welcome Sen. Rand Paul's move today to exercise that privilege to prevent what would certainly be the speedy confirmation of John Brennan as Director of the Central Intelligence Agency.
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A new U.S. law that exempts 169 presidential appointees from having to be confirmed by the Senate has ruffled feathers at the National Science Board, the oversight body for the National Science Foundation (NSF).