Obama to make recess appointments to 15 administration posts

[FR7 Baptist]

President Obama announced Saturday that he will make recess appointments of 15 nominees to administration posts who are awaiting confirmation by the full Senate.

"The United States Senate has the responsibility to approve or disapprove of my nominees," Obama said in a written statement that also named the 15 individuals. "But if, in the interest of scoring political points, Republicans in the Senate refuse to exercise that responsibility, I must act in the interest of the American people and exercise my authority to fill these positions on an interim basis.

"Most of the men and women whose appointments I am announcing today were approved by Senate committees months ago, yet still await a vote of the Senate. At a time of economic emergency, two top appointees to the Department of Treasury have been held up for nearly six months. I simply cannot allow partisan politics to stand in the way of the basic functioning of government."

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It's about time he make the recess appointments. We can not allow our government to be stopped by Republican obstructionism.

 

[Robert Snow]

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It's about time he make the recess appointments. We can not allow our government to be stopped by Republican obstructionism.

Didn't the President Bush do likewise? I believe he make something like 46 recess appointments.

 

[rbell]

Didn't the President Bush do likewise? I believe he make something like 46 recess appointments.

Sounds about right.

I'm not a fan of recess appointments by either party.

 

[carpro]

The problem is the quality of the appointees.

It would be hard to find anyone more communistic in his approach to solving labor problems than a Craig Becker.

He's been in bed with Big Lobor for a long time. They own him. He'll do whatever they want him to do.