His goal: to get a bill through each house of Congress by the August recess.
And using the dodge of a recess appointment could cripple any new defence secretary.
Recess appointments are allowed by the constitution only when the Senate is in recess.
Those administrators and bureaucrats taking away recess should themselves be given a permanent recess.
But Congress left for its summer recess with no extension yet on the bill.
He used a recess appointment, acting while Congress is away to bypass Senate opposition.
Immediately prior to the August recess, the Senate acted on its version of this legislation.
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With Congress in recess, there were no major demonstrations planned in the nation's capital.
Mike is relieved that the Democrats didn't pass a bill before the August recess.
Is the President concerned that a draft might not be done by the August recess?
Companies like Zappos and REI have hosted KEEN Recess events to officially bless employee work breaks.
The Clinton Foundation invited KEEN to talk about recess during its Health Matters Town Hall.
All they did was pass things off to another committee and then go on recess.
How does this go to the substance of the matter, which is the recess appointment itself?
S. Congress is in its summer recess until early September, as are many governments elsewhere.
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Neither Kennedy nor Miller has been available for comment, as Congress is still on spring recess.
Well, he used his executive constitutional power to appoint Cordray while Congress was in recess.
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Teaching and learning have become hollow, desperate acts punctuated by recess, lunch, and homecoming.
Like the House, the Senate was to adjourn Friday for a 10-day President's Day recess.
But is there a possibility that Richard Cordray could be named by recess appointment?
Von Spakovsky served in 2006 and '07 as a recess appointee, without Senate confirmation.
The window for breaking the Senate deadlock will stay open until the Independence Day recess.
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