Congress nixes chance of Obama recess appointments

[DreamSmoker]

Source: Press

WASHINGTON (AFP) – Republican senators on Friday forced the US Senate to stay in session over its week-long Memorial Day break in a bid to prevent President Barack Obama from nominating a controversial head of a new consumer protection bureau.

Obama has the right to make so-called "recess appointments" any time the Senate breaks for four days or more.

It is widely expected that the president will appoint the controversial and straight-talking Elizabeth Warren to head the new Consumer Financial Protection Agency.

Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/05/28/congress-nixes-chance-of-obama-recess-appointments/

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The Party of NO is at it again this weekend..

[silvershadow]

1. Sorry 'bout the dupes, Didn't do that. How to delete?

[former9thward]

5. Click on 'edit' on the one you want to delete.

And then just erase the text and put 'delete' in the subject. Assuming the edit time has not passed.

[silvershadow]

2. Oh, brother...I am not surprised, but I am very disappointed.

I was so looking forward to her appointment.

[silvershadow]

3. Oh, brother...I am not surprised, but I am very disappointed.

I was so looking forward to her appointment.

[plumbob]

4. They really are scared of Elizabeth Warren. She knows what needs done

and has the will to do it.

Those do-nothing, know-nothing, corporate lickspittles don't like that.

[russspeakeasy]

6. A passionate, 3 minute, on air, speech would overcome the

problem. I have not heard him speak "for her" in months.

[msongs]

7. Obama wants you to be bipartisan. get with it ok lol nt

[hootinholler]

8. Doesn't the majority set the calendar?

Truly I don't know the Senate rules that well.

-Hoot

[Moosepoop]

12. The Senate needs the House's permission, and vice versa

http://www.answers.com/topic/congressional-adjournment

congressional adjournment

Oxford Guide to the US Government: congressional adjournment
Home > Library > History, Politics & Society > US Government Guide

Adjournment is the way in which Congress goes out of session. Whenever the House or Senate adjourns, it formally ends a legislative day. The next time that chamber reconvenes, it must go through the general order of business, including the reading of the journals (the minutes of previous sessions, which provide information such as bills and resolutions introduced, committee referrals, and votes) and other morning business. The House usually adjourns each day, but because routine morning business can be prolonged as part of a Senate filibuster, a delaying tactic, the Senate may recess rather than adjourn. A recess keeps the chamber in the same legislative day. A single legislative day of the Senate once ran for 162 calendar days, from January 3 June 12 1980

The Constitution forbids either house to adjourn for more than three days without the other's permission. During an annual session of Congress, the Senate and House from time to time will adjourn for a week to allow members to return to their districts and states, often in connection with a holiday. In nonelection years, Congress usually adjourns for the month of August. An adjournment resolution will set a specific date when the Senate and House plan to return. At the end of the session, the leadership will make a motion to adjourn sine die. This Latin phrase means “without a day,” since the resolution sets no time for Congress to return before the beginning of the next session on January 3. If a national emergency or some other unexpected business develops after an adjournment, the President can call Congress back into special, or extraordinary, session. In recent years, adjournment resolutions have also authorized the House and Senate majority leaders jointly to call Congress back from a sine die adjournment.

[hootinholler]

14. Hey Thanks! n/t

[SoapBox]

9. Outrageous....and why didn't the Dems do this to BushCo?

...too limp...too impotent, Dems?

What the hell are you good for even when you are the majority?

...I'm so disgusted with the whole lot.

[quaker bill]

11. actually, they did

guess you weren't paying attention.

[MasonJar]

10. Maybe by the Fourth the GOPers will want a vacation. Or are they going to stay around

for Labor Day, Thanksgiving and Christmas too?

[EC]

13. I wonder if everyone had kept quiet about telling

Obama to do a recess appointment, maybe they (the repubs) wouldn't have thought about it?


I'm guessing Obama has a list waiting - I don't think he has any patience left with the hearings and congressional approvals anymore.

[TimLighter]

15. Democrats Move to Block Bush Appointments

Oh those sneaky, clever Repubicons, thinking they invented something new. HAH!

WASHINGTON, Nov. 20 — Who says the Senate cannot act quickly? It conducted a full day’s business in less than 30 seconds on Tuesday.

Of course, there was no real business to conduct. But fearing that President Bush would again use a Congressional recess to install disputed executive branch appointees without Senate confirmation, Democrats convened the Senate for the first of four microsessions to be held during the holiday break, precisely to thwart such an end run.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/21/washington/21recess.html

[Cid_B]

16. Recess appointments always struck me as an odd thing...