Now, if you won't appoint members, I'll leave that aside whether you think that's playing politics with the issue.

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Mukasey said, out of an abundance of caution, he wasn't going to appoint this Virginia U.S. attorney.

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Then there is the European Central Bank, which national governments can't influence at all, save periodically when they appoint the people who run it.

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We especially don't know what kind of officials George W. Bush will appoint if he wins the election.

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We don't get judges of color if we don't have lawyers of color because the only way the governor can appoint you is if you're a lawyer, so it's really important.

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One of them--"appoint a bipartisan oversight board to oversee the implementation of Obamacare"--won't fly.

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