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Republicans introduce bill to eliminate presidential 'czars'
The Hill ^

Posted on 01/06/2011 1:56:14 PM PST by Sub-Driver

Republicans introduce bill to eliminate presidential 'czars' By Michael O'Brien - 01/06/11 04:15 PM ET

A group of House Republicans introduced a bill on Wednesday to rein in the various "czars" in the Obama administration.

Rep. Steve Scalise (R-La.) and 28 other House Republicans introduced legislation to do away with the informal, paid advisers President Obama has employed over the past two years.

The legislation, which was introduced in the last Congress but was not allowed to advance under Democratic control, would do away with the 39 czars Obama has employed during his administration.

The bill defines a czar as "a head of any task force, council, policy office within the Executive Office of the President, or similar office established by or at the direction of the President" who is appointed to a position that would otherwise require Senate confirmation.

Republicans had complained about the president's use of czars to help advance his agenda in Congress. In particular, the GOP had harped about the personal history of Van Jones, the president's czar for "green jobs," over past comments Jones had made about Fox News came to light. Jones eventually resigned.

Another prominent czar over the past year was Carol Browner, the president's energy and environmental adviser. She helped head up efforts in response to the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, and the ultimately unsuccessful effort for an energy and climate bill from Congress.

Republicans introduced several bills to eliminate czars in the last Congress, but similar legislation could conceivably advance in the House now that the GOP controls the chamber.

"We haven’t gotten an indication of an exact timeline for committee action, considering that the bill was just filed yesterday," said Scalise spokesman Stephen Bell. "We hope to have this discussion in the near future as the congressman works to pursue all the bills he has introduced in the 112th Congress."


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To: Lucky9teen

#20 died last month.


41 posted on 01/06/2011 2:14:03 PM PST by proudpapa (Proudpapa)
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To: lesko
So far, so good.

I hope this isn't all just disingenuous theater to look good starting out. Unless they maintain this track, we're dead.

42 posted on 01/06/2011 2:15:18 PM PST by fwdude (Anita Bryant was right.)
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To: Sub-Driver

Time to give Obama a spanking.


43 posted on 01/06/2011 2:15:18 PM PST by struggle ((The struggle continues))
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To: reagan_fanatic

Rino pigs are a little nervous lately as their kind is becomming extinct. So too are alot of dems.
Maybe this batch of pubbies are a more manley form of conservative?

Good point though as far too often the pubbie try to cozie uop to the M.S.M. scum.


44 posted on 01/06/2011 2:16:19 PM PST by Joe Boucher
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To: ridesthemiles
"Richard Holbrooke, Afghanistan-Pakistan (Af-Pak) czar:

Richard Holbrooke: Deceased Czar.

45 posted on 01/06/2011 2:16:34 PM PST by StormEye
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To: Sub-Driver

How about introducing a bill to cut to ribbons the salaries of presidential czars? Then they’ll go away by themselves.


46 posted on 01/06/2011 2:17:17 PM PST by 668 - Neighbor of the Beast
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To: Lucky9teen; Sub-Driver; LucyT

A big step in the right direction!!!


47 posted on 01/06/2011 2:17:27 PM PST by danamco (')
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To: Sub-Driver

wow, you mean BO can’t payoff his clueless buddies with taxpayer dollars. What has corruption come to? Very sad. Moochelle will be devastated.


48 posted on 01/06/2011 2:18:20 PM PST by Neoliberalnot ((Read "The Grey Book" for an alternative to corruption in DC))
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To: Sub-Driver
and staff ... AND STAFF !

These are the 'jobs' ... "created"

49 posted on 01/06/2011 2:18:52 PM PST by knarf (I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true.)
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To: Cheetahcat
"How are these czars paid?"

Obama's stash.

50 posted on 01/06/2011 2:18:57 PM PST by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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To: Sub-Driver

So far I have been right proud of our boys in the house, and am so enjoying how the dummiecrats are spitting and spouting about how they are being left out of the process. heh heh!

Payback is a real bite, ain’t it!


51 posted on 01/06/2011 2:19:17 PM PST by Pilgrim's Progress (http://www.baptistbiblebelievers.com/BYTOPICS/tabid/335/Default.aspx)
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To: AEMILIUS PAULUS
Would not this be a job for the Senate? I hope the Republicans do not waste this opportunity tilting at windmills. Immigration reform, money problems etc. are fa more important.

Depends on your POV, I think they are a huge concern especially since we've recently seen things like:

EPA Green House Gas Rules

Net Neutrality Rules

Re-emergence of Death Panels...

and those are just the most recent ones that come to mind. These czars advance the agendas without the rule of law, but through the exceptions to the law, that makes them more dangerous than congress. We all thought Cap N Tax was what needed to be fought, it is us...who were tilting with windmills.

52 posted on 01/06/2011 2:19:27 PM PST by EBH ( Whether you eat your bread or see it vanish into a looter's stomach, is an absolute.)
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To: lesko

It IS lookin’ good, ain’t it !


53 posted on 01/06/2011 2:19:57 PM PST by knarf (I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true.)
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To: BwanaNdege

“They are paid with
POWER!”

Right that is the end game here.


54 posted on 01/06/2011 2:20:34 PM PST by Cheetahcat ( November 4 2008 ,A date which will live in Infamy.)
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To: Joe 6-pack

“How are these czars paid?”

Obama’s stash.”

Exactly, there needs to be hearings on these clowns.


55 posted on 01/06/2011 2:21:38 PM PST by Cheetahcat ( November 4 2008 ,A date which will live in Infamy.)
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To: Lucky9teen

Wow! Thanks for the list!


56 posted on 01/06/2011 2:22:40 PM PST by livius
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To: Sub-Driver

DEFUND it ALL.


57 posted on 01/06/2011 2:22:51 PM PST by Frantzie (Slaves do not have freedom only the illusion of freedom & their cable TV to drool at)
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To: Lucky9teen

They forget the Poor Wh*re Czar to oversee the stimulation of destitute protitutes....


58 posted on 01/06/2011 2:25:14 PM PST by illiac (If we don't change directions soon, we'll get where we're going)
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To: knarf

I’m very happy about this. Bambi’s end-run around the Constitution - essentially usurping legislative authority through the appointment of czars who impose policies administratively - may be at an end.

And we’ve got to walk back every step of it. He has already done enormous damage to the US and it must be undone.

Good start, Congress!


59 posted on 01/06/2011 2:26:04 PM PST by livius
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To: Sub-Driver

Go get ‘em, boys and girls...


60 posted on 01/06/2011 2:26:26 PM PST by Interesting Times (WinterSoldier.com. SwiftVets.com. ToSetTheRecordStraight.com.)
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