Obama Recess Appointments

Senate Republicans Join Legal Challenge Of Obama's Recess Appointments

HuffingtonPost.com | Jennifer Bendery | Posted 04.17.2012

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

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Harry Reid: I'll Ask Obama To Recess Appoint All Nominees If GOP Delays Continue

HuffingtonPost.com | Jennifer Bendery | Posted 02.17.2012

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

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GOP Senators Promise To Join Suit Against Obama Recess Appointments

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael McAuliff | Posted 02.04.2012

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

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Sen Mike Lee Vows To Block Obama's Nominees, Uses PAC To Raise Money Off Effort

HuffingtonPost.com | Jennifer Bendery | Posted 02.01.2012

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

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GOP Boycott Of Consumer Finance Watchdog Fizzles

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael McAuliff | Posted 01.31.2012

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

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The Senate's Holiday

Christopher Brauchli | Posted 03.14.2012

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The Republicans' newest way of countering criticism that Congress spends more time on recess than it does working occurred when it went home for the Christmas holidays.

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Republicans Press Justice Dept On Legality Of Recess Appointments

HuffingtonPost.com | Jennifer Bendery | Posted 01.06.2012

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

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White House, Dems: If Congress Isn't In Recess, Why Isn't It Working?

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael McAuliff | Posted 01.05.2012

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

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Santorum: Congress Should Take Obama 'To Court' For Recess Appointments

HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 01.05.2012

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BRENTWOOD, N.H. -- Rick Santorum, flying high off his personal victory in the Iowa caucuses, met with voters at a nursing home in New Hampshire on Wed...

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What Is A Recess?

AP | By ALAN FRAM | Posted 01.04.2012

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WASHINGTON -- The Constitution lets presidents make temporary appointments while the Senate is in recess but does not specify what a recess is or how ...

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Scott Brown Backs Obama End Run Appointment Of CFPB Boss Cordray

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael McAuliff | Posted 01.04.2012

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

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Inviting Fury From GOP, Obama Doubles Down On Recess Appointments

HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 01.05.2012

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

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Obama Has Tiny Window To Appoint Consumer Protection Chief

HuffingtonPost.com | Jennifer Bendery | Posted 12.29.2011

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

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By Nuclear Threat or Weekend Recess

Victor Williams | Posted 10.10.2011

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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.

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End "Trips and Traps": Recess Appoint Elizabeth Warren as CFPB Director

Victor Williams | Posted 07.15.2011

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Senate Republicans have preemptively filibustered the appointment of a founding director for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Without a director, the CFPB will not have authority to regulate both bank and nonbank financial operations.

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Dems Duck Recess Fight With GOP As Elizabeth Warren Dangles

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael McAuliff | Posted 08.30.2011

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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...

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Obama Announces Six Recess Appointments

AP | JULIE PACE | Posted 05.25.2011

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

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Lame-Duck Fights: Confirm OMB's Jack Lew, DOJ's Jim Cole and 23 Federal Judges

Victor Williams | Posted 05.25.2011

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Partisan "leaders" are now chosen, weeks ahead of the Republic's 112th Congress. Now is the time to confirm Executive Branch leaders for the next two...

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Obama Makes 4 Recess Appointments While On Vacation

AP | MARK S. SMITH | Posted 05.25.2011

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VINEYARD HAVEN, Mass. — Once again bypassing a gridlocked Senate, President Barack Obama acted Thursday to install three agency officials and a ...

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Gibbs: Whether Obama Makes Recess Appointments Depends On McConnell

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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The Obama administration hinted strongly on Tuesday that it would use the president's power to appoint officials without congressional confirmation du...

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Obama Bypassing Senate To Fill Medicare Post

AP | ERICA WERNER | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama intends to use the congressional recess to bypass the Senate and appoint Dr. Donald Berwick, an expert on pa...

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Obama Recess Appointments: Confronting Senate Confirmation Obstruction in Summer 2010

Victor Williams | Posted 05.25.2011

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Our nation's challenges grow more daunting daily. Meanwhile, over two hundred top federal posts remain vacant. Obama should audaciously use his recess appointment authority at every opportunity.

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Obama Recess Appointments: 5 More He Should Make (Vote For Your Favorites)

HuffingtonPost.com | Dan Froomkin | Posted 05.25.2011

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President Obama on Saturday made 15 recess appointments, using his power to unilaterally install top officials in his government when the Senate isn't...

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Obama Recess Appoints 15 Top Appointees, End-Running GOP Obstruction

HuffingtonPost.com | Dan Froomkin | Posted 05.25.2011

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President Obama on Saturday announced the recess appointment of 15 political appointees whose nominations had been stalled by Republicans. "The Unit...

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Obama's Recess Appointments: GOPers Raging Now, Welcomed Process Under Bush

The Huffington Post | Nico Pitney | Posted 05.25.2011

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President Obama's decision to bypass the vacationing Senate and directly appoint 15 nominees has produced some expected cries of outrage from Republic...

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