House passes bill eliminating Senate confirmation for presidential appointees
UPDATE: The House passed the legislation Tuesday night by a vote of 261-116. The bill now goes to President Obama’s desk for his signature.
The House of Representatives is set to consider legislation Tuesday that would exempt certain presidential appointees from having to be confirmed by the Senate.
But a number of conservative groups are arguing that the “Presidential Efficiency and Streamlining Act” amounts to Congress neutering itself and giving the executive branch unprecedented power.
Presidential appointees that would no longer require Senate confirmation under the legislation include the treasurer of the United States and the deputy administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration.
“The United States Constitution does not bestow kingly powers on the President to appoint the senior officers of the government with no process,” wrote Thomas McClusky, the senior vice president for the Family Research Council’s legislative arm, in a Monday memo to lawmakers.
Sources told The Daily Caller that there is concern in the ranks among conservatives opposed to the legislation that House leaders will bring the legislation up for a voice vote to avoid putting members on the record.
“I can tell you that there will be members who want this vote on the record,” an aide to one conservative member told TheDC. “Whether or not they’ll get the chance is still in question.”
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The sad thing id that people are still voting for these crooks, Does the congress and the president realize they are backing the dog in the corner, metaphysically speaking of course, and It's about ready to attack? They just keep pushing and pushing, the damn is about to break and the flood is coming. Get ready people I smell war coming against our non-constitutional government.
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+7Does anyone really need more proof that they are all working together to give all the power to the dictator?
Here's some more proof...
BOEHNER FOLDS IN DEAL WITH REID,
FUNDS OBAMACARE MANDATES
Court Cripples 1st Amendment
in Obama's War on Religion
Tell the Congress to Fight Boehner, Fight Back with
"Power of the Purse" TODAY
"Disobedience to tyrants is obedience to God" – Benjamin Franklin
UPDATE: Even as a large group of Congressional Republicans at a press conference on Capitol Hill denounced the infamous Obama contraception mandate, and vowed to "stand up" and defend religious freedom as defined by the First Amendment…
House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) announced that they "had agreed" on a Continuing Resolution (CR) to fund the federal government for six months – including ObamaCare and the HHS mandate!






















It is as if to say, Oh, ppl got mad and said it was illegal to bypass Congress and the Constitutional law of the land? OK, then we'll just circumvent, re-write and otherwise criminalize the people AND the peoples' law.
No establishment leader or hopeful ever even considers actually following or upholding the law anymore. This is not a trend toward socialism (much less democracy); it is fascism, i.e. ancient mode of dictatorship.
A law not enforced is no law at all. Why even bother with words on a page when the ppl in charge at the moment simply disregard it at whim? Coronate the king and be done with it.
King Obama or King Romney-- the diff. btwn an establishment marionette and an status quo hand puppet; more of the same WILL CONTINUE. And We the People are systematically stripped of any remedy, much less any right to direct any strings or have any hand in our own government at all.
Here's some more proof...
BOEHNER FOLDS IN DEAL WITH REID,
FUNDS OBAMACARE MANDATES
Court Cripples 1st Amendment
in Obama's War on Religion
Tell the Congress to Fight Boehner, Fight Back with
"Power of the Purse" TODAY
"Disobedience to tyrants is obedience to God" – Benjamin Franklin
UPDATE: Even as a large group of Congressional Republicans at a press conference on Capitol Hill denounced the infamous Obama contraception mandate, and vowed to "stand up" and defend religious freedom as defined by the First Amendment…
House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) announced that they "had agreed" on a Continuing Resolution (CR) to fund the federal government for six months – including ObamaCare and the HHS mandate!
Remember, leftwing voters are less than 20% of the vote and Conservatives are 40%. Even if Moderates represent 38% of the vote, a Moderate these days just seems to be an easy out for Conservatives and Liberals who no longer support the ideological status quo... but that still makes them Moderate Conservatives or Moderate Liberals when, in the past, a Moderate was someone more akin to a Centrist in that while they might lean one way or the other, they still worked across party and ideological lines to get things done. If you read what most on this site say while claiming to be Moderates, they are clearly still left or right in their views almost entirely and support many of the more radical views in that regard.
As an Independent Centrist, I lean one way or the other based on which side is more correct and since Obama was elected, that's been the political right as the left has gone stark raving mad trying to find any way they ...
Remember, leftwing voters are less than 20% of the vote and Conservatives are 40%. Even if Moderates represent 38% of the vote, a Moderate these days just seems to be an easy out for Conservatives and Liberals who no longer support the ideological status quo... but that still makes them Moderate Conservatives or Moderate Liberals when, in the past, a Moderate was someone more akin to a Centrist in that while they might lean one way or the other, they still worked across party and ideological lines to get things done. If you read what most on this site say while claiming to be Moderates, they are clearly still left or right in their views almost entirely and support many of the more radical views in that regard.
As an Independent Centrist, I lean one way or the other based on which side is more correct and since Obama was elected, that's been the political right as the left has gone stark raving mad trying to find any way they can to support the President. All Republicans have to do is put 10% of their focus on Obama and 90% on getting their candidates re elected across the country... and 90% of the left will put their focus on Obama with only 10% focusing on Democrats across the country giving Republicans an even stronger powerbase across the country as a whole even if Obama is re elected so we have to deal with four more years of the exact same BS he's given us for the past four years as his second term would be identical to the first.
We have to place blame where blame is due on this legislation as we all knew Democrats would support it... so who among the Republicans crossed party lines to help them do this?