Recess Appointments

WASHINGTON -- Senate Republicans are joining a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of some of President Barack Obama's recess appointments in Ja...

WASHINGTON -- Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) fired a warning shot to Republicans on Friday: Stop blocking President Barack Obama's executi...

WASHINGTON -- A group of 39 Republican senators signed on to a letter Friday promising to join lawsuits against President Obama's recent recess appoin...

Please -- cut the hyperbole, senators, and get back to work.

WASHINGTON -- Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) insists it is the Constitution, not politics, driving his vow to unilaterally block all of President Barack Obama...

WASHINGTON -- A Republican boycott of the first official Senate testimony of President Obama's consumer finance watchdog fizzled Tuesday, as only half...

The Justice Department's release of on Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) opinion regarding President Obama's recess appointments power is a welcome display of public accountability. However one analyzes the bottom line, the opinion is a model of the genre.

Jonathan Bernstein has caught Rep. Diane Black (R-Tenn.) making what is, in his estimation, the "best self-refuting argument ever." From her press rel...

We checked the Constitution, and the dispute between the former government legal officials and the president's spokesman is one of those constitutional controversies that remain truly unsettled even 225 years after the founding document was written.

Matalin and Reagan spar after Iowa's NOTA (none-of-the-above) tie. Is Romney inevitable or insufferable?

For all the brouhaha surrounding President Obama's recess appointments this week of three new members for the National Labor Relations Board and of Ri...

WASHINGTON -- House and Senate Republicans fired off letters to the Justice Department on Friday demanding to know what role the agency played, if any...

WASHINGTON -- With Republicans complaining that President Obama made recess appointments while Congress is not in recess, House Democrats Thursday sug...

WASHINGTON -- Bucking his party's leadership, Sen. Scott Brown (R-Mass.) Wednesday expressed his support for President Obama's decision to name Richa...

President Obama announced today that he will use his constitutional authority under the Recess Appointments Clause to push through vital political appointments. Partisans on each side in this matter will surely accuse the other of playing partisan dirty tricks. Senate Republicans have already accused the president of a power grab because, they claim, the pro-forma session means that the Senate is not technically in recess. The president's supporters will counter by saying that Republican Senators are using the trick of pro-forma sessions to strip the president of the recess appointment authority specifically provided to him by the Constitution. But if we consider legal precedents, it's likely that after all this partisan squabbling ends, the president may have the Chief Justice on his side.

WASHINGTON -- Doubling down on President Barack Obama's bold recess appointment of Richard Cordray to head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, t...

As high level federal vacancies continue to damage our government and economy, Barack Obama considers how best to push back against Senate confirmati...

WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama has been pressing the Senate for months to confirm Richard Cordray as the director of the new Consumer Financial ...

In a time and place of his choosing, Barack Obama should use the Article II, Section 2 recess appointment alternative.

WASHINGTON -- Time's up for the head of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection, who announced Thursday he is stepping down at the end of the year when...

The Senate majority's unified, strategic and forceful stand against ever-increasing minority obstruction holds the potential to be a game-changing event for the 112th Senate.

WASHINGTON -- Republicans in Congress have called out the Democrats for a fight over recess -- but there are few signs the Democrats are going to show...

HONOLULU — President Barack Obama bypassed the Senate Wednesday to make six recess appointments, including a deputy attorney general whose links...