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House passes bill eliminating Senate confirmation for presidential appointees

Teri- Oregon 2012/08/03 09:15:29

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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House passes bill eliminating Senate confirmation for presidential appointees

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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  • DeeB 2012/08/03 11:06:23 (edited)
    DeeB
    +7
    Does 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!

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  • HAlex1972 2012/08/08 09:19:54
    HAlex1972
    +1
    Wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong - just plain old wrong. Isn't the House Republican controlled? Why would they do this?!?
  • Teri- O... HAlex1972 2012/08/08 19:53:30
    Teri- Oregon
    They were told to.
  • *K'eim*h3reg' *Peh2u *Meg' 2012/08/06 19:48:43
    *K'eim*h3reg' *Peh2u *Meg'
    +1
    This changes nothing. They could already do this simply by calling them czars.
  • jmc07806-PWCM-JLA 2012/08/06 17:47:23
    jmc07806-PWCM-JLA
    +1
    How stupid do these people think we are and they want to be re-elected.
  • John "By God" American 2012/08/04 21:04:51
    John "By God" American
    +1
    If this isn't just another shining example that there is no difference between the parties, I don't know what is...
  • LisaWay☮JUST MARCH HOME 2012/08/03 19:57:35 (edited)
    LisaWay☮JUST MARCH HOME
    +3
    This is just another in a long string of ad hoc legalization of a long string of heretofore criminal acts by our established government, which is hell bent on keeping the world in perpetual war and perpetual debt.

    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.
  • historian 2012/08/03 18:36:52
    historian
    +4
    As I've said before, they all come together when it comes to subjugating people abroad who don't bow to the communist "international community", aka world government, and when destroying the Constitution, the inalienable rights of We the People, and building a police State at home. Yet people still keep putting these establishment puppets of the two-headed globalist party in office, left parrots versus right parrots, two legs of the same body hauling the rest of us to the grave.
  • acronombe2012 2012/08/03 18:28:57
  • john Kills 2012/08/03 14:37:31
    john Kills
    +2
    republicans are responsible for this. is everyone freakin' awake yet? what the hell is it going to take to nget people off their ass. Voting will not fix the mess we are in. Voting has meant nothing for years.
  • Teri- O... john Kills 2012/08/03 22:33:33
    Teri- Oregon
    +1
    It's not just republicans, i assure you!
  • john Kills Teri- O... 2012/08/03 22:43:49
    john Kills
    +2
    No but it goes back and forth, repubs vs demos. I say they are the same and just pretend to differ in order to divide and manipulate the people. The repubs do control the house so they get the credit/blame for this action.
  • Teri- O... john Kills 2012/08/03 22:45:24
    Teri- Oregon
    +1
    I read the rest of your comments and realized you don't support either party. Good for you! :)
  • wtw 2012/08/03 14:00:40
    wtw
    +1
    Just like Obama the so-called constitutional lawyer trashing the constitution with his marxist friends--now do you libs understand why we want this guy and the dems out!
  • john Kills wtw 2012/08/03 14:38:52
    john Kills
    +4
    republicans passed this bill. there are no repubs or demos. we have the new world order.
  • Temlakos~POTL~PWCM~JLA~☆ 2012/08/03 11:58:14
    Temlakos~POTL~PWCM~JLA~☆
    +2
    To be specific, the bill, in thirty-six pages, names several high-level admins whom the President may now appoint directly. The Constitution ought to make clear just how inferior an officer has to be before Congress can vest his appointment "in the President alone, in the courts of law, or in the heads of departments."
  • DeeB 2012/08/03 11:06:23 (edited)
    DeeB
    +7
    Does 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!
  • historian DeeB 2012/08/03 18:40:25
    historian
    +4
    But..But...Romney will fix everything...we need to get rid of the Democrats and put in Republicans so that everything is better, or vice versa. How many times this ideology has to be proven false to the core, people keep going for it, and attack and ridicule those of us who try to tell them they're making a grave mistake and harming this country and destroying the Constitution they claim to support. If the mind is enslaved, the body is as well, without need of physical chains.
  • DeeB historian 2012/08/03 18:56:13
    DeeB
    +4
    In my mind I am clapping and thinking how refreshing it is to see some common sense on this site. I have to wonder just what it will take for Dumb & Dumber to finely see reality. It is slapping them in their faces and they still don't see it. They probably won't until those chains turn into real physical chains with locks and keys.
  • mal 2012/08/03 11:05:38
    mal
    +5
    Vote out the traitors to the constitution America.
  • chaoskitty123 2012/08/03 09:44:55
    chaoskitty123
    +4
    But Congress is majority Republican meaning Republicans could have blocked this but enough sold out to get it passed. So regardless of what Conservative groups say, Conservatives in Washington DC did support this and we need to point our swords at all the legislators who voted for this and not just at the obvious leftwing Democrats who voted for this.

    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 ...

    But Congress is majority Republican meaning Republicans could have blocked this but enough sold out to get it passed. So regardless of what Conservative groups say, Conservatives in Washington DC did support this and we need to point our swords at all the legislators who voted for this and not just at the obvious leftwing Democrats who voted for this.

    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?
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  • john Kills chaoski... 2012/08/03 14:41:39
    john Kills
    +4
    republican also voted for the passage of ndaa. both parties are really one socialist party working together for the new world order. they only pretend to differ on issues to confuse, divide, manipulate the people.
  • Teri- O... chaoski... 2012/08/03 22:35:45
    Teri- Oregon
    +1
    They are all sold out, it doesn't matter what side they are on anymore, you can't trust either party or any party for that matter. They are all crooked.

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