Mr. President, I'm greatly appreciative of the confidence you've placed in me by making this appointment.
Despite this, Chau has not been put off and will be making an appointment to see how he and his business will fare in the Year of the Snake.
Bolton's nomination, which President Bush resubmitted just after making the recess appointment, has been pending in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
Members of your party in the Senate hardly objected when President Obama last July circumvented the constitutional checks and balances of the confirmation process by making a recess appointment of Donald Berwick as the new head of the all powerful Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
By making Hagel's appointment about Israel all his opponents are doing is giving Hagel and his supporters new excuses for sticking it to Israel.
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But on January 6th Mr Obama was back in the firing-line, accused of making another dubiously qualified appointment in the shape of Sanjay Gupta, a TV presenter and doctor, to be surgeon-general.
If FDR can appoint his neighbor Henry Morgenthau as Treasury Secretary and Carter could appoint two industrialists to the post, Obama would be making a fresh bold appointment that could have impressive results in the relationship between Wall Street, Washington and Main Street.
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Republicans on the House Government Reform and Oversight Committee have picked a new fight with the Clinton administration, this time threatening Attorney General Janet Reno with contempt of Congress for refusing to hand over internal memos making the case for appointment of an independent counsel in the ongoing campaign finance probe.
The England and Wales Cricket Board are awaiting the verdict of a review of the Ashes and World Cup failures before making a full-time appointment.
Earlier this month, a European minority languages organisation raised concerns about making a non Gaelic-speaking appointment.
Last year, a European minority languages organisation raised concerns about the authority making a non Gaelic-speaking appointment.
Lost in the buzz following Christie Hefner's resignation from Playboy in December was other, more important news: the appointment of Jimmy Jellinek as editorial director, making him the man in charge of saving the magazine.
Making sure the transition goes smoothly, Benedict made an important appointment Wednesday, naming the No. 2 administrator of the Vatican city state, Monsignor Giuseppe Sciacca, as a legal adviser to the camerlengo.
He was London Mayor Boris Johnson's appointment to the board of London 2012, charged with making sure that the games did not go over budget.
The premiership holds little actual power, but analysts say his appointment indicates that he will again be taking a central role in economic decision-making.
Proposals the tech industry is considering range from the appointment of a deputy mayor for information technology to tax incentives that are aimed at making the city more attractive to companies.
Prior to her husband's appointment in 2007 to the Politburo Standing Committee China's top decision-making body she also talked publicly about their relationship in interviews with Chinese state media outlets.
Just as former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan served under multiple presidents from both political parties, making Americans feel more secure about the economy, the new head of FEMA, in a similar appointment, could help Americans feel more secure about disaster relief.
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