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Who needs "advise and consent" anyway. Just be the dictator, and appoint whomever you want. :roll:
Democrat NLRB 'Recess" Appointments Rushed. Don't Appear on White House Nomineee List
The two Democrats that President Barack Obama appointed to the National Labor Relations Board during what he considered a congressional “recess” are not on the White House’s official list of Obama’s appointments and nominations for various positions.
Obama referred his two Democratic nominees, Sharon Block and Richard Griffin, to the Senate on Dec. 15. The Senate adjourned for the year – but did not go into an official recess — on the following day.
WhiteHouse.gov tracks the status of all of Obama’s appointments and nominations. Block and Griffin do not appear on that list — a sign that the administration rushed the recess appointments through too quickly for the Senate to even consider them.
Read more: NLRB | Recess Appointments Sharon Block | Richard Griffin | The Daily Caller
Wyoming Republican Sen. Mike Enzi’s office has pointed out that Block and Griffin were referred to the Senate so quickly that they didn’t pass basic criminal and civil background checks. A statement from Enzi, the ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, said that the background checks ensure that no criminal investigations are pending against potential nominees, and that they have paid their income taxes. The checks also ensure nominees don’t have conflicts of interest.
Read more: NLRB | Recess Appointments Sharon Block | Richard Griffin | The Daily Caller
how many threads do we need about this?
The other one seems to have largely turned into a thread concerning CFPB, so I think this is appropriate.
What's the matter? Don't want to talk about this one?
j-mac
The GOP has put Congress into virtual permanent session for all 2011, to prevent Obama from making any Recess appointments.
when you play that game, don't cry when someone plays a better hand.
Plays a better hand ? LOL ..... when you play as this in a real poker game in the Wild Wild West, you get shot for cheating....
...The GOP followed the rules....
where does it say filibustering ALL nominations can be used to prevent an entire federal agency from functioning?
Where are the rules for what can, and cannot, be filibustered ?
The GOP has put Congress into virtual permanent session for all 2011, to prevent Obama from making any Recess appointments.
when you play that game, don't cry when someone plays a better hand.
Obama broke the law.
do you think its appropriate to filibuster EVERY single nominee to lead a federal agency, so as to prevent the agency from functioning?
you really think 41 Senators should have the power to prevent an entire agency of the Federal government, from functioning?????
that's no democracy, that's a dictatorship by the minority.
Who needs "advise and consent" anyway. Just be the dictator, and appoint whomever you want. :roll:
yeah???
cite the law he broke.
:lamo
It's called the Constitution of the United States...Try reading it some time instead of always trying to change it.....
The Libbos didn't seem to mind when the Democrats did it.
The Constitution of the United States.....is a law?
no, my friend....it is a large document of laws & rules.
now, kindly point out WHICH law Obama broke.
I think the whole idea of Congress wasting it's time (months sometimes) holding hearings about filling some position is a waste of their time and our money. Does the Constitution cover these hearings? Probably just "guy rules" to make the game more fun. What CEO doesn't have the power to hire and fire? The axe falls on him if it's a mistake...remember Brownie?
It is the law of the land....
when did the Democrats use the filibuster to prevent an entire agency from functioning?
:lamo
Please provide for us where in the constitution, or senate rules it says that a nomination of someone to head an agency can not be filibustered....
...However this thread is about the NLRB hacks that Obama never even put up...He just installed them like a dictator.
j-mac
ah yes, moving the goalposts. of course you can filibuster one..or two..three agency head nominees. but to threaten to filibuster ANY and ALL nominees because you want to the agency to not function???????????????? that's an abuse of the filibuster rule.
and the hyperbole starts.
So it was abuse when demo's did it to Bush?...
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