The judicial nominees of his father and Bill Clinton were blocked more often (see chart) but were thwarted by other tactics, such as keeping their nominations buried in committee.
Are they clearing -- those nominations cleared through the committee as quickly as they should?
Experts on the Australian Memory of the World Committee assess the nominations.
Raymond Odierno, who has been tapped to fill Petraeus' position in Iraq, testified before the Senate Armed Services Committee on their nominations.
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The UK Government is preparing a new Tentative List of natural, cultural and mixed sites for potential nomination for inscription on the UNESCO World Heritage List, to be submitted to UNESCO in 2011, with a view to putting forward nominations to the World Heritage Committee from 2012.
The UK Government is currently preparing a new Tentative List of natural, cultural and mixed sites for potential nomination for inscription on the UNESCO World Heritage List, to be submitted to UNESCO in 2011, with a view to putting forward nominations to the World Heritage Committee from 2012.
From today through to 29 November, the Committee will examine 73 nominations for inscription on the Intangible Heritage Lists.
Republicans held more than 60 Clinton appointees in the Senate Judiciary Committee, preventing those nominations from reaching the Senate floor.
To ensure preservation and recognition of Australia's significant documentary heritage the Australian Memory of the World Committee is calling for nominations for inscription on the national register in 2004.
During its meeting, the Committee will examine 12 nominations of elements proposed for inscription on the List of Intangible Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding, as well as more than 100 proposals for inscription on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.
Well, you're very kind to do that, but I know the Nobel committee gets a lot of nominations.
To start with, conservatives mounted a ferocious campaign to stop Arlen Specter, a moderate Republican from Pennsylvania, from becoming chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee (this oversees judicial nominations and will become the main forum for conflict over the Supreme Court).
The committee sent out its solicitation for nominations last September, two months before Obama was elected president.
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By clicking on the inscribed elements below, you can discover the nominations, photos and videos, together with Committee decisions and evidence of community consent.
The Committee is expected to evaluate 35 more nominations for their eventual inscription on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity as the session continues.
Contrast this, for example, with the way the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences handles the Grammys: There, an executive committee is allowed to overrule the membership's nominations, leaving it open to charges that manipulations occur to get higher-wattage stars onto the TV broadcast.
Duties include escorting royal visitors, leading the local magistracy as chairman of the Advisory Committee on Justices of the Peace and advising on Honours nominations.
John Edwards, D-North Carolina, a successful trial lawyer and potential candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2004, got a seat on the Judiciary committee -- a high profile perch for battling White House judicial nominations.
He served as chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee from 1987 to 1995, leading opposition to the controversial Supreme Court nominations of Robert Bork and Clarence Thomas.
Patrick Leahy, D-Vermont, would become chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, giving Democrats much power over whether to approve any future Bush nominations to the U.S. Supreme Court.
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All States Parties must present the World Heritage Committee with a Tentative List of sites they intend to nominate one year before nominations are submitted.
Beginning on 16 November, the 24-member Committee, chaired by Jacob Ole Miaron (Kenya), will examine 47 nominations for the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.
The 34th session of the World Heritage Committee meeting took place in Brasilia from 25 July - 2nd August 2010 to consider nominations for the World Heritage List and the List of World Heritage in Danger.
John Myers, chairman of the organising committee, said he was "particularly delighted to see many new faces appearing amongst the nominations".
Nominations should ideally be submitted through the National Commission for UNESCO or the Memory of the World National Committee in the country where it is located.
Her government service includes her work as Counsel to Senator Biden, where she worked on Judiciary Committee issues such as women's rights, domestic violence, intellectual property, judicial nominations, immigration and civil rights.
Nominations must be submitted by State Parties before 1 February every year if they are to be examined during the Committee session the following calendar year.
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