1.   Although the requisite Senate approval will temper all choices for the judiciary, the next president will still name judges.

2.   As his top domestic goals, the president named helping the inner cities and securing the entitlement system.

3.   As for future appointments, a president can only name three new members every three years, making it difficult to pack the board with favorites.

4.   Currently, the mayor appoints two board members and the borough presidents name the other five.

5.   Feingold, the lone Democrat to break ranks, said he was honoring the tradition of allowing the presidents to name their cabinet.

6.   Five years later, the president named him to succeed Daniel Patrick Moynihan as assistant secretary of labor for manpower.

7.   Four Republican presidents named a total of seven of the current justices, while President Clinton named two.

8.   Gonzales said the president is naming lawyers to the bench who are chosen for competence, character and a judicial philosophy that respects precedent and believes in judicial restraint.

9.   Instead, the president will name a troika to lead the new council, which is not expected to require any new federal funds.

10.   It is not clear whether the president will name a new commerce secretary with just over six months left before he leaves office.