No matter who is elected to serve as commander-in-chief, the U.S. faces massive political and economic problems.
He was first elected to serve in the House of Representatives in 1978 and was re-elected three times.
In 1972, Joe Biden became one of the youngest senators ever elected to serve in the United States Senate.
He is appealing to the Federal Court but has elected to serve his term so he can get his passport back.
Still, it makes the very idea of a president mixing with the people he is elected to serve seem like a well-intentioned but ultimately bittersweet illusion.
After graduating from the University of Arizona, he was elected to serve on a school board in Tucson but also travels the country as an inspirational speaker.
At the swearing-in ceremony for Congress on July 24th, no fewer than 12 parliamentarians who had been elected to serve the opposition crossed the floor to join the government benches.
She was the only U.S. elected official to serve on this Committee.
Such a tax would help to remind our elected officials that the purpose of elected office is to serve the public, not themselves.
We've seen countless examples of CEOs, pastors, politicians and others hang on and on to a position of power, hurting the very people they were elected or chosen to serve.
Crossbench peer Baroness Hayman, who was elected by peers to serve as the first Lord Speaker from 2006-11, said that it was "possible to have as great a respect for democracy" as did Lord Ashdown without agreeing with what she described as "a rather broad-brush approach".
For her part, as chief foreign policy advisor to Senator John Kerry during the 2004 presidential elections, Susan Rice reportedly convinced Kerry to announce that if elected he would appoint Jimmy Carter and James Baker to serve as his envoys for Middle East peace.
The first is that obviously the President has been focused the last few days on exactly what the American people elected him to do, which is to serve as Commander-in-Chief and manage the country in a state of crisis.
"When Mayor Bach was elected, I told him I was here to serve, and would do so loyally and do my best to lead the department in the direction he wanted to take the city, until such time that he felt he needed to bring in his own chief, " the release from Myers stated.
He said he intends to serve four years if re-elected in November.
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Why shouldn't these judicial nominees, who are not elected and serve for a lifetime, be subjected to searching examinations of their attitudes and beliefs?
These justices are elected every two years, at the town meeting, to serve a two-year term.
Mr Millan was first elected to represent Glasgow Craigton in 1959 and went on to serve in both the Wilson and Callaghan governments.
She was first elected to Congress in 2000 and is the first Hispanic woman to serve on the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
But every election, regardless of who wins and who loses, is a reminder that in our democracy, power rests not with those of us in elected office, but with the people we have the privilege to serve.
He had previously served as a state senator in Illinois and then ran two years ago and won a seat to the United States Senate and was elected and would not even serve out one full term in the United States Senate before perhaps running for the highest office in the land.
Roger Wilson, the Democrat who succeeded Carnahan as governor, has said he will appoint Jean Carnahan, 66, to serve in her husband's stead if he is elected.
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He was first elected to the Knesset, the Israeli parliament, in 1974 and went on to serve in a number of ministerial roles.
Six years later, he was elected to U.S. Senate, where his brothers Robert and Ted would also serve.
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It seems our elected officials realized this tax, which applied to gross sales, not profits, just might serve as a disincentive for medical device makers to innovate new devices.
Those whose seats are up for election are those who have served since 2008, when lots were drawn among the successful candidates as to whether they would serve two-year or four-year terms, and those elected in a by-election in 2011.
She explained how changes to officers' pay and conditions, cuts to police budgets and the introduction of elected police commissioners all form part of a plan to make the force more responsive to the demands of the citizens they serve.
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