[ajay_kumar]

When the president makes recess appointments without senate approval, are these then permanent or good only during the recess? Any one know this?

If the recess appointments are permanent, what is the sense in holding them up before recess? If temporary, senators can fight them after the recess.

[DJ MacWoW]

From the article:

Recess appointments, which a president can make when Congress is not in session, are temporary and generally last to the end of the year.

[SAJ]

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.

[DoughtyOne]

The appointments are good until the end of the current Senate (two year) Session. Those sessions last two years, so a recess appointment could last almost two years. Current recess appointments will expire with this Congress, at the end of the year.

http://www.senate.gov/CRSReports/crs-publish.cfm?pid=%270DP%2BP\W%3B%20P%20%20%0A

[diogenes ghost]

Recess appointments are good until end of current Congress, Jan 2011.