http://visiontoamerica.org/8306/harry-reid-wants-90-unconstitutional-nominees-appointed/
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid says he’s going to recommend the White House make recess appointments of 90 nominees if the Republicans don’t cooperate with him on confirmation through the Senate’s constitutional “advice and consent” requirement.
[The President] shall have Power, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, to make Treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur; and he shall nominate, and by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, shall appoint Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, Judges of the supreme Court, and all other Officers of the United States, whose Appointments are not herein otherwise provided for, and which shall be established by Law. . . The President shall have Power to fill up all Vacancies that may happen during the Recess of the Senate, by granting Commissions which shall expire at the End of their next Session. (Art. 2, Sec. 2).
Recess appointments were made in the days when transportation to Washington was limited, expensive, and grueling. Today, recess appointments are made when the majority in the Senate either block or refuse to vote on nominees. There are no transportation obstacles for the president to wait on the “advice and consent” of the Senate. He can wait a weekend or even a month.
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