Posted on 12/20/2019 5:26:10 PM PST by Rebelbase
Ronald Reagan made nearly 250 recess appointments during his time in office. Jimmy Carter and George H.W. Bush made dozens each. George W. Bush made 171, and Barack Obama notched 32.
President Trump, meanwhile, stands at a big zero.
No other president has gone this deep into an administration without making a recess appointment. In fact, he is poised to become the first president never to get one — save William Henry Harrison, who died just one month into office.
Recess appointments are one of the more arcane presidential powers, but analysts said the breakdown of the process is emblematic of a broken Washington.
“It’s a very important presidential power,” said Hans von Spakovsky, a legal scholar at the conservative Heritage Foundation who was the recipient of a recess appointment to the Federal Election Commission in 2006.
“The whole point of that authority was to be able to temporarily fill important positions in the government. If anything, that’s gotten even more important since our founding because of the huge increase of the size of the federal government, and it’s not a good thing to have all these empty slots.”
It has been nearly 2,900 days since the last recess appointment, dating back seven years to the Obama administration. That is by far the longest stretch in history, according to an analysis by The Washington Times.
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Thanks. That seems to be the consensus...but that would be for the senate only.
I wonder why the House needs pro forma sessions?
The House doesn’t need to approve Presidential appointments, only the Senate.
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The “reason” is that Turtle refuses to allow Trump to have a recess to do this.
It is McConnell’s a-holeness at work.
I know, that’s why I asked why does the House need to do pro forma sessions...
Informative: thank you!
The other Presidents we’re guilty of abuse of power on this issue
Trump isn’t, but he’s accused in an impeachment for the all-encompassing charge of “abuse of power..
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