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tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com — The White House confirmed Wednesday morning that President Obama will announce a recess appointment for Richard Cordray to run the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau at a speech in Ohio later today. Cordray was a well-liked Ohio Attorney General until last year, after he was toppled by the GOP midterm wave in 2010.

Cordray’s an accidental victim of a brazen act of GOP obstruction. They’re refusing to allow an up-or-down vote on any CFPB nominee until the agency itself is fundamentally weakened — an extra-legal attempt to nullify a key portion of an act of law.

Recent recess appointment facts --
President William J. Clinton made 139 recess appointments, 95 to full-time positions.

President George W. Bush made 171 recess appointments, of which 99 were to full-time positions.

As of December 8, 2011, President Barack Obama had made 28 recess appointments, all to full-time
positions.

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How do you view the coming republican outrage over this recess appointment
The usual hypocrites
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If they did their jobs the recess appointments wouldn't be necessary
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Its expected, it’s what republicans do – complain
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It's acceptable
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TopSpin
Posted 501 days ago
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According to the Congressional Research Service, President Bill Clinton made 139 recess appointments. President George W. Bush made 171 recess appointments, and as of December 8, 2011, President Barack Obama had made 28 recess appointments.
945call
Posted 501 days ago
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Only problem, Congress is not in Recess!
DSLDSGN
Posted 500 days ago
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@945call

Lawyers for this White House and for past administrations, including most recently with President George W. Bush, have argued that the use of "pro forma" sessions is merely a legislative sham designed to rob the executive branch of its powers.

Two Bush-era lawyers, John Elwood and Steven Bradbury, called such a strategy "phony" in a 2010 Washington Post op-ed, and said, "The president can use this power to fill a vacancy during any recess between sessions of Congress as well as recesses during sessions of Congress, if they are of substantial length."

The two cite a 1905 memo published by the Senate Judiciary Committee in which the panel sought to define a recess, saying one occurs whenever the Senate cannot "participate as a body in making appointments." The committee cautioned that a "recess" means "something actual, not something fictitious."

Meanwhile, the Senate's own legal counsel in the 1990s argued for a much different definition of recess.

In 1993, during a recess appointment controversy under President George H.W. Bush, the chamber's lawyer took apart the appointments clause.

"(T)he word 'recess' is worded in the singular, not the plural," the chamber's lawyer stated, adding, "(T)he Framers specified that the clause applies to 'all Vacancies,' the Framers chose not to state similarly that the Clause applies 'during all Recesses.' The logical inference from their conspicuous avoidance of the word 'all' is that the Framers did not intend the recess appointment power to apply during each and every possible adjournment of the Senate."

Read more: http://politics.blogs.foxnews.com/2012/01/04/another-uproar-over-recess-appointments-what-exactly-congressional-recess#ixzz1ihPFJEpf
945call
Posted 500 days ago
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@DSLDSGN says "Lawyers for this White House and for past administrations, including most recently with President George W. Bush, have argued that the use of "pro forma" sessions is merely a legislative sham designed to rob the executive branch of its powers."

But Bush honored them and passed on ther nominations.
james2044
Posted 501 days ago
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This is just more obamanation BS! They forgot thay their great god obama was against this, that he was going to make it all better and run an open goverment. Obama is doing such a poor job that he cannot run on his record, all he can do is sling mud and play the race card.
hank put Bush on the picture becuse he wants to inflame the liberal sheep.
hank10303
Posted 501 days ago
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@james2044

Obama was never against recess appointments, but being Bush has made the most recess appointments in the last 20 years you should not be objecting to this option. By the way, I put Bush's image up there because I did a search for "disgruntled republican" and that was one of the images. Think it's appropriate?
hank10303
Posted 501 days ago
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FOR those that have no knowledge about American history and even less about facts, i.e., Teapublicans read it and weep.

Historically, the recess appointments clause has been given a practical interpretation. As Alexander Hamilton wrote in Federalist No. 67, the clause enables the president to keep the government fully staffed when the Senate is not “in session for the appointment of officers.”

In a 1905 report that the Senate still considers authoritative, the Senate Judiciary Committee recognized that a “Recess of the Senate” occurs whenever the Senate is not sitting for the discharge of its functions and when it cannot “participate as a body in making appointments.” The committee cautioned that a “recess” means “something actual, not something fictitious.” The executive branch has long taken the same common-sense view. In 1921, citing opinions of his predecessors dating back to the Monroe administration, Attorney General Harry M. Daugherty argued that the question “is whether in a practical sense the Senate is in session so that its advice and consent can be obtained. To give the word ‘recess’ a technical and not a practical construction, is to disregard substance for form.”

http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/are-obamas-recess-appointments-unconstitutional-probably-not/
lightdude
Posted 501 days ago
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@hank10303 "In Obo you trust." Gee Hank, you are so smart to learn us all about liberal "History." I bet you are a community agitator just like obo.
hank10303
Posted 501 days ago
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Historically, the recess appointments clause has been given a practical interpretation. As Alexander Hamilton wrote in Federalist No. 67, the clause enables the president to keep the government fully staffed when the Senate is not “in session for the appointment of officers.”

In a 1905 report that the Senate still considers authoritative, the Senate Judiciary Committee recognized that a “Recess of the Senate” occurs whenever the Senate is not sitting for the discharge of its functions and when it cannot “participate as a body in making appointments.” The committee cautioned that a “recess” means “something actual, not something fictitious.” The executive branch has long taken the same common-sense view. In 1921, citing opinions of his predecessors dating back to the Monroe administration, Attorney General Harry M. Daugherty argued that the question “is whether in a practical sense the Senate is in session so that its advice and consent can be obtained. To give the word ‘recess’ a technical and not a practical construction, is to disregard substance for form.”

http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/are-obamas-recess-appointments-unconstitutional-probably-not/
lightdude
Posted 501 days ago
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Our vacationer in chief. I wonder which of the 57 states he's going to vacation next?
lastbaldeagle
Posted 500 days ago
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IDIOT! The Senate was not out of session. This tactic was first used by the corrupt, yet devious Dingy Harry Reid to block appointments by George W. Bush. Hypocrites? Yes, democraps invented the term by their very actions.
lastbaldeagle
Posted 500 days ago
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Obama's Recess Appointments: An Impeachable Offense?

IBD Editorials ^ | January 5, 2012 | Editor

Constitution: President Obama's nonrecess "recess appointments" can't be excused as over-the-top electioneering. This president has crossed over from socialistic extremism into lawlessness and, perhaps, impeachability. The U.S. Constitution established a strong presidency — so strong that even one of the most esteemed founding fathers, Patrick Henry, worried it would be kinglike. But this week saw a president exceed even those broad constitutional powers because doing so fits his election-year narrative of a "do-nothing Congress" so well. Now we have the makings of a banana republic, where the rule of clearly written constitutional law is compromised by a ruler's subjective whim....
lastbaldeagle
Posted 500 days ago
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Reid backs Obama after using pro forma sessions to block Bush (Hypocrites!!!)

The Hill ^ | 1/4/2012 | By Peter Schroeder

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.), who previously held pro forma sessions to block recess appointments by President George W. Bush, said Wednesday he supported President Obama's decision to ignore those sessions to push through one of his key nominees. "I support President Obama's decision," he said in a statement. The White House announced Wednesday that Obama planned to recess appoint Richard Cordray to be director of the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). However, Republicans immediately cried foul about the move. They argue that because the holiday break has been broken up by brief pro forma sessions, the Senate...

Pro forma sessions block Bush (5/24/2008. More proof Democrats are nothing but liars)
Politico ^ | 5/24/2008 | ap

The Senate is famed for its long-winded debates, but on Friday it took Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown just seconds to stop Republicans in their tracks.

With the Senate entering the first day of its Memorial Day recess, the Ohio senator was briefly in the chair, before a near-empty chamber, to gavel in and gavel out what is called a pro forma session. Without that procedural move, the Senate would technically be adjourned and President Bush could install administration officials or judges as "recess appointments" — without Senate confirmation.

"That's the fastest I've ever done it," said Brown, who like other freshmen does duty as presiding officer when the Senate is in regular session. He said he didn't realize until he got there that the prayer and Pledge of Allegiance, which usually open a session, were dispensed with for pro forma meetings.

(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
joy50plus
Posted 500 days ago
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BOTH political parties have abused the authority of the Executive Branch in recent years by making recess appointments in violation of Constitutional requirements.
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