appointee

Examples of appointee in the following topics:

• Obama vs. the Lobbyists?

  • On January 21, 2009, Obama issued an executive order for all future appointees to his administration, which stated, no appointee who was a registered lobbyist within the two years before his appointment could participate on matters in which he lobbied for a period of two years after the date of appointment.

• Jacksonian Democrats: 1824–1860

  • Many Jacksonians held the view that rotating political appointees in and out of office was not only the right but also the duty of winners in political contests.
  • Patronage was theorized to be good because it would encourage political participation by the common man and because it would make a politician more accountable for poor government service by his appointees.

• Privacy Rights and Abortion

  • Justices Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas, and the two recent appointees, Samuel Alito and Chief Justice John Roberts, joined the swing vote, which came from moderate justice Anthony Kennedy.

• The Framers of the Constitution

  • The states had originally appointed seventy representatives to the Convention, but a number of the appointees did not accept or could not attend, leaving fifty-five delegates to draft the Constitution.

• Advice and Consent

  • Typically, a congressional hearing is held to question the appointee.

• The Media

  • The military found itself drawn progressively into politics, to the point that it had become as involved in "selling" the war to the American public as the political appointees it served.

• Size of the Federal Bureaucracy

  • From the 1960s to the 1990s, even as the size of civil service stayed constant, the number of senior executives and political appointees quintupled.

• The Executive Office of the President

  • The White House Counsel is a staff appointee of the President of the United States.