Posted on 01/22/2002 4:29:03 PM PST by Jean S
WASHINGTON -- President Bush on Tuesday used his recess appointment power to put an official from a major accounting firm on the Securities and Exchange Commission, which is investigating the auditing work done for troubled energy trader Enron Corp.
Bush appointed Cynthia A. Glassman, a principal at the Big Five accounting firm Ernst & Young. She worked at the Federal Reserve Board from 1977 to 1986 as economist and senior economist and in other positions.
The accounting profession has come under heightened public scrutiny as a result of the collapse of Enron, and the SEC is investigating the auditing work done for the company by major accountant Arthur Andersen LLP.
Glassman, a Republican, has worked for Ernst & Young since 1997. She was director of commercial bank risk management from 1997 to 1999, and before that had been director of research and managing director at Furash & Co.
Glassman served with the board of governors of the Federal Reserve from 1977 to 1986. She holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Pennsylvania.
He also reappointed Isaac C. Hunt Jr., a Democrat appointed to the SEC by former President Clinton in 1996. Hunt's term recently expired. A graduate of the University of Virginia law school, Hunt was dean of Antioch School of Law in Washington from 1987 to 1995.
Bush made the appointments just a day before the opening of the second session of the 107th Congress. Because Bush exercised his authority while Congress was out of session, his appointees will be allowed to serve until Congress recesses again at the end of the year.
In other recess appointments Tuesday, Bush named:
_Deborah Matz and JoAnn Johnson to the board of the National Credit Union Administration.
_William B. Cowen and Michael J. Bartlett to the National Labor Relations Board.
Of course they are. But that's not really germaine, unless your point is that the "advice and consent" role of the Senate should be scrapped altogether in favor of straight "recess appointments" all the time.
Personally, I think Bush should go all the way and squeeze in every possible recess appointment he can because the scumbags, particularly Leahy, will not give Bush the time of day at this point.
I think that jungleboy's point was that this was not the way it was supposed to be. The founders certainly envisioned an advice and consent on appointments.
See post #26. Bush may have little choice if Biden and other rats have declared war.
And remember, it was Clinton's party that invented "borking" and began this whole disgusting partisan game with appointments. Screw them.
Woulda, coulda, shoulda been someone else ... some Blue Dog or whatever. Perhaps you have not pondered what is the likely nature -- and influence -- of an Antioch Clintonista lawyer. I admire GW, but why this???
Three possibilities:
1. Somebody's got something on Hunt and he can be controlled.
2. A deal was worked out.
3. He fits a "diversity" profile (is Hunt black?) and the positive PR is worth it.
Whatever, Bush has control of the SEC now.
Apparently the folks of South Dakota do. Little tommy single-handedly held up the appointment of Scalia even though he was voted out of committee. Little tommy would not put a full Senate vote on the appointment on the agenda. I've heard it's the first time that has ever happened. He seemed to think that he had the right to prevent the Senate from voting on the appointment made by the President. He took it upon himself to "dictate" who the President could and could not appoint rather than letting the Senate perform its advise and consent function according to the Constitution.
Therefore, the President had no option but to use his Constitutional authority to make the appointment during a recess.
He already did that.
If I didn't own a business in Montgomery County for the last 26 years, I would have left the state all together. Roscoe Bartlett is a good man though and I am glad he's my Congressman, he even attends the same church as my Wife and I. I have talked with him a few times and he seems very down to earth.
Besides intelligence? Lots!!!
Clinton appointed Bill Lan Lee, who was turned down in the Committee hearings. Bill Lan Lee was found unfit, since it became apparent that he would enforce his own version of the law as he saw fit, not as the Courts had declared. So Bill Clinton then gave the guy a recess appointment, and then made the guy "acting", and thus usurped ALL Constitutional provisions.
Bush gave recess appointments to a few key people that some Senate Democrats refused to even allow hearings to proceed. These Democrats would rather cripple America and the economy during a time of war for partisan principles, than to allow the hearings to proceed.
Bush has indicated that he would still request hearings on the individuals named. My challenge to the Democrat traitors would be to hold hearings, and vote to deny confirmation, and request Bush to remove the the persons appointed, if that is what the majority votes for. But I somehow doubt that the Democraps will do anything above board like this.
Mike
But what I feel like I'm missing is the Democratic outrage. We were beside ourselves during Clinton's abuses. Have I somehow missed entirely the Left's foaming at the mouth over Bush's beating them at their own game?
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