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7 Governors of the Federal Reserve System (14-year terms of office — Chair and vice chair, who first must be confirmed as governors, also need to be confirmed for four-year terms in those offices.) 3 Members of the National Credit Union Administration (political balance required; six-year terms of office)
Counselor of the Department of State: Michael Needham [126] January 20, 2025 Director of Policy Planning: Michael Anton [127] Spokeswoman for the Department of State: Tammy Bruce [128] Ambassadors to foreign states; Ambassador to Antigua and Barbuda: Karin B. Sullivan: January 20, 2025 Ambassador to Argentina: Peter Lamelas [129] Awaiting ...
The rules of the Senate require that when the term of the Senate expires (in the case of the 115th Congress, at noon on January 3, 2019), nominations then pending lapse and are returned to the president, who can resubmit them to the new Congress. [5]
Left office Notes Secretary of State: Rex Tillerson: February 1, 2017 March 31, 2018 Fired March 13, 2018. [33] His tenure was the fifteenth-shortest in the office's 228-year history, and the third-shortest since World War II. [a] Tillerson is the only Secretary of State since at least 1945 to have been fired. [34] Thomas A. Shannon Jr. January ...
Below is a list of nominations and appointments to the Department of State by Joe Biden, the 46th president of the United States. As of August 2, 2024, according to tracking by The Washington Post and Partnership for Public Service, 41 nominees have been confirmed, 15 nominees are being considered by the Senate, 5 positions do not have nominees, and 20 appointments have been made to positions ...
The patronage system thrived in the U.S. federal government until 1883. In 1820 Congress limited federal administrators to four-year terms, which led to constant turnover; by the 1860s and the Civil War, patronage had led to widespread inefficiency and political corruption. Although it used to be confined to cabinet positions, department heads ...
Except for the president of the Senate (who is the vice president), the Senate elects its own officers, [2] who maintain order and decorum, manage and schedule the legislative and executive business of the Senate, and interpret the Senate's rules, practices and precedents. Many non-member officers are also hired to run various day-to-day ...
The length of a full four-year term of office for a president of the United States usually amounts to 1,461 days (three common years of 365 days plus one leap year of 366 days). The listed number of days is calculated as the difference between dates , which counts the number of calendar days except the first day ( day zero ).