Posted on 02/11/2010 7:40:12 PM PST by ricks_place
The Senate confirmed a huge group of administration nominees on Thursday, following a tense exchange between President Barack Obama and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.).
At a White House meeting with bipartisan congressional leaders on Tuesday, Obama warned that he would make recess appointments if the logjam over nominees wasn’t broken before the Senate left for the Presidents’ Day break.
“Mitch, this is unprecedented,” the president said, gesturing forcefully on the Cabinet Room table, according to aides. “If you don’t move any, I’m going to do some [recess] appointments.”
The 27 confirmations mean no recess appointments will be needed during this break, top administration officials said. Recess appointments, which a president can make when Congress is not in session, are temporary and generally last to the end of the year.
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Some of you might be on dial up and don’t want to go to the article.
In review of the list I didn’t see anyone that was important. I did not see the NLRB mentioned.
Thats interesting. Lower level people?
What about Dawn Johnsen or is it Johnson?
"Unprecedented"??? How about the Rats refusing to even hold confirmation hearings for ANY of Bush's appointees in what, 8 years!
It's amazing how Rats always find a word or phrase that multiplies their outrages into grinning rape.
Recess appointments, which a president can make when Congress is not in session, are temporary and generally last to the end of the year.
Here is the list:
Ketanji Brown Jackson, of Maryland, to be a Member of the United States Sentencing Commission
Susan B. Carbon, of New Hampshire, to be Director of the Violence Against Women Office
Betty King to be Ambassador International Organization U.N.
Caryn Wagner to be Assistant Secretary DHS
Sara Manzano-Diaz, of Pennsylvania, to be Director of the Women’s Bureau
Patrick Corvington- CEO National Service
Robert A. Petzel, of Minnesota, to be Under Secretary for Health of the Department of Veterans Affairs
Nicole Yvette Lamb-Hale, of Michigan, to be an Assistant Secretary of Commerce,
Marisa Lago, of New York, to be an Assistant Secretary of the Treasury
Ellen Gloninger Murray, of Virginia, to be an Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services
Bryan Hayes Samuels, of Illinois, to be Commissioner on Children, Youth, and Families, Department of
Health and Human Services
Charles Collyns, of Maryland, to be a Deputy Under Secretary of the Treasury
Mary John Miller, of Maryland, to be an Assistant Secretary of the Treasury
André Birotte, Jr., of California, to be United States Attorney for the Central District of California
Richard S. Hartunian, of New York, to be United States Attorney for the Northern District of New York
Ronald C. Machen, Jr., of the District of Columbia, to be United States Attorney for the District of Columbia
Mary Sally Matiella, of Arizona, to be an Assistant Secretary of the Army, vice Nelson M. Ford.
Douglas B. Wilson, of Arizona, to be an Assistant Secretary of Defense, vice Dorrance Smith.
Irvin M. Mayfield, Jr., of Louisiana, to be a Member of the National Council on the Arts
Cynthia L. Attwood, of Virginia, to be a Member of the Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission
Sharon Y. Bowen, of New York, to be a Director of the Securities Investor Protection Corporation
Orlan Johnson, of Maryland, to be a Director of the Securities Investor Protection Corporation
Douglas A. Criscitello, of Virginia, to be Chief Financial Officer, Department of Housing and Urban
Development
Theodore W. Tozer, of Ohio, to be President, Government National Mortgage Association
David W. Mills, of Virginia, to be an Assistant Secretary of Commerce
Suresh Kumar, of New Jersey, to be Assistant Secretary of Commerce and Director General of the United
States and Foreign Commercial Service.
Kevin Wolf, of Virginia, to be an Assistant Secretary of Commerce.
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McConnell replied that the Democrats did the same thing when President George W. Bush was in office. Obama disagreed, saying that when Bush made his first recess appointments, a handful of nominees had been waiting for more than a month. Obama had more than 60 waiting.
Of course this won’t stop the President from doing recess appointments
the GOP differs in degree, but not in kind, from the Democrats. They are rivals within the same franchise, when we seek an entirely new game.
You have succinctly summed up EXACTLY what I’ve been feeling. Right ON!!
What a nothing story, designed to invent a "win" for Obama.
That his media pals are THIS desperate says more than the article and the deceptive headline.
The Dems had no problem denying Bush appointments. Look what they did to John Bolton who was a recess appointment. Let Obama make the recess appointments. In a year we may have control of Congress.
Yup. Politico spin at it’s best.
You are right. Obama will try but I think the Republicans have this covered.
No, the Bummer would have gotten sympathetic press from the presstitutes at least this time around, however he would have to do it all over again, and over, and over, and meantime skeletons would start to fall out of closets.
If the GOP just slows everything down and attack strategically. They can get us to the elections.
Sometimes it’s the right thing to be a macho man.
What is the quid that the GOP hopes to get pro this quo?
Well I think the GOP has blunk, unless there is a quid pro quo we don’t know.
Recess appointments 1) are temporary: they last until the end of the current Congress (i.e., until Jan 4-5-6 next year), and 2) serve unpaid.
Heck yeah! Make these screaming libs serve for free... if they’re willing. The GOP blunk when it didn’t have to.
Bush made over 170 recess appointments because the dems wouldn’t pass his nominees. The dems weren’t seen as the party of NO. Have some courage guys. Your votes to pass these idiots (assuming most of them are based on prior history) may well be used against you in a coming primary.
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