Posted on 08/02/2004 5:53:22 AM PDT by truthandlife
President Bush on Friday announced his intention to make 20 appointments during the congressional recess, including a new chairman of the Federal Trade Commission, a manufacturing czar and three ambassadors.
For FTC chairman, Mr. Bush intends to appoint Deborah Majoras of Virginia to replace Timothy J. Muris, who is stepping down. Mrs. Majoras, a former Justice Department deputy assistant attorney general, was one of the lead lawyers in the government's antitrust lawsuit against Microsoft Corp.
Mrs. Majoras' nomination has been blocked in the Senate by Sen. Ron Wyden, Oregon Democrat, who said there was no evidence she would change FTC policies that he says benefit oil companies and hurt consumers. By making the appointment during the congressional recess, Mr. Bush avoids the need for Senate confirmation.
Mr. Wyden said he hoped "that this undemocratic process for naming a new chair won't result in consumers being hammered with high gas prices again and again." Jon Leibowitz of Maryland will be appointed to another seat on the five-member FTC. Mrs. Majoras and Mr. Leibowitz, like the other recess appointees, will serve until the end of 2005.
Mr. Bush also plans to nominate Albert Frink Jr. of California as assistant secretary of commerce for manufacturing and services. Mr. Bush's first pick for the manufacturing post, Nebraska business executive Tony Raimondo, was criticized for cutting U.S. jobs and shifting work to China.
The president also announced the following nominations: Paul Jones of Colorado to be a member of the Internal Revenue Service Oversight Board.
Jonathan Dudas of Virginia to be undersecretary of commerce for intellectual property and director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
Enrique Sosa of Florida to be a member of the Amtrak reform board.
Richard Wagner of Florida to be a member of the National Institute for Literacy Advisory Board.
Stephen Johnson of Maryland to be deputy administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency.
Carin Barth of Texas to be chief financial officer of the Housing and Urban Development Department.
Gary Lee Visscher of Maryland to be a member of the Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board.
Ricardo Hinojosa of Texas to be chairman of the United States Sentencing Commission.
Susan Johnson Grant of Virginia to be chief financial officer at the Energy Department.
James Kunder of Virginia to be assistant administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development in the bureau for Asia and the Near East.
John Rood of Florida to be ambassador to the Bahamas. Charles Graves Untermeyer of Texas to be ambassador to Qatar.
Aldona Wos of North Carolina to be ambassador to Estonia.
Scott Kevin Walker of Wisconsin to be a member of the advisory board of the St. Lawrence Seaway Development Corp.
Roger Wallace and Jack Vaughn of Texas and Nadine Hogan of Florida to be members of the board of directors of the Inter-American Foundation.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
Good.
No mention of dim's heavy-handed partisan actions that made this necessary.
appoint the judges, too.....all of them.....if dasshole is to be saddened, he should be really saddened
Dear Sen. Ron Wyden:
Tomorrow morning, for breakfast, order a large bowl of warm, stewed prunes.
Your gas problems will be over soon.
P/S ... take the rest of the day off, and preferably near a bathroom.
BOOM!
They (dems) made an agreement to quit stalling as a trade off on President Bush not making recess appointments.
Apparently, they have not quit stalling.
Good for him!
"...Mr. Wyden said he hoped "that this undemocratic process for naming a new chair won't result in consumers being hammered with high gas prices again and again..."
The high gas prices have nothing to do with taxes imposed on the general population by liberal treee huggers like Wyden and Lurch to get me to drive less or buy a tiny deathtrap. Screw you Wyden, you Dimmy pimp!! Your sniveling makes me want to vomit.
About damn time!
Take the CLINTON 10 cents a gallon tax increase off the price of fuel....(A tax on the poorest that shouldn't have happened but when did Bubba ever tell the truth).
Passed while the Republicans controlled the house and senate?
Between this and his support of an NRST, I feel a lot better about voting for him.
I'm still not letting him off the hook for the AWB though...
I don't think so!!
Problem with recess appointments especially of judges is that it requires someone to give up a (presumably) good-paying job for one that, while prestigious, lacks a future, since the Senate cannot possibly approve someone who has been a recess-appointee.
Not after the President slaps them in the face like that!
If, God forbid, Bush doesn't win the election, I'd bet you'll be seing a bunch of that...
The following is an excerpt beginning with 1901 showing the recess appointed and number confirmed of Federal Judges... Note that President Bush's number is incorrect as it doesn't include the two appointments he made.
Also note that beginning with President Nixon the Presidents begin to back away from recess appointments of Judges....
APPENDIX B Number of recess-appointed judges by President U.S. President Number of Recess Appts # Recess Appts Later Confirmed George W. Bush (2001-present) NONE (to date) N/A William J. Clinton (1993-2001) 1 1/1 George H.W. Bush (1989-93) NONE N/A Ronald Reagan (1981-89) NONE N/A Jimmy Carter (1977-81) 1 0/1 Gerald Ford (1974-77) NONE N/A Richard M. Nixon (1969-74) NONE N/A Lyndon B. Johnson (1963-69) 4 3/4 John F. Kennedy (1961-63) 25 25/25 Dwight D. Eisenhower (1953-61) 27 26/27 Harry S Truman (1945-53) 39 33/39 Franklin D. Roosevelt (1933-45) 15 13/15 Herbert Hoover (1929-33) 9 8/9 Calvin Coolidge (1923-29) 25 22/25 Warren G. Harding (1921-23) 5 5/5 Woodrow Wilson (1913-21) 9 7/9 William H. Taft (1909-13) 5 1/5 Theodore Roosevelt (1901-09) 30 26/30
Keep up the good work!
If your premise is that the Democrats have goodwill and a sense of fair play, you might be confused by these appointments.
If your premise is that the 'Rats are Socialists willing to destroy America to regain power, you are THRILLED by these appointments!
Heh-heh, yippee-kiy-ay...
Good news bump.
Looks like the RAT congress has used up all of their share of Republican compassionate conservatism. Keep up the good work Pres Bush--
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