President Clinton made 139 recess appointments.
The fresh air is already in evidence with the announcement of President Obama's 15 recess appointments.
Mr. Obama's action brings his recess appointees to 28; former President George W. Bush had made 23 recess appointments by this time in his presidency.
Mr. Clinton made 139 recess appointments, 95 of them to full-time positions, while Mr. Bush made 171, with 99 to full-time jobs.
President Bush, by this point in his tenure, Mr. Carney noted, had made 61 recess appointments, compared to Mr. Obama's 28.
Mr. Obama's action puts him on a par with Mr. Bush, who had made 15 recess appointments by this point in his presidency.
Mr. Bush had an especially intense tussle with Democrats over judicial appointees; during the course of his two terms in office, he made a total of 171 recess appointments, although 72 were to part-time positions, according to the Congressional Research Service.
Other presidents have used that authority, with George W. Bush making 15 recess appointment by this point in his presidency and a total of 171 by the end, according to Congressional Research Service.
In December 1903, President Theodore Roosevelt made more than 160 recess appointments in the seconds between the moment Congressional leaders gaveled close one session of Congress and gaveled open the next.
A superior, vertically orientated suprahoffatic (Fig. 2a) and an inferior, horizontal infra-hoffatic (Fig. 2b) recess may be observed within the HFP [4].
