I have seen children cry about missing a recess or struggle to write an essay on the behavior they need to change.
Publicly, White House officials were noncommittal about the possibility of a recess appointment, a back-door procedure in the Constitution that permits the president to fill vacant positions when the Senate is in recess, as it will be when Congress breaks for the month of August.
(New trains being tested now have a recess of only about 6 inches, and yesterday, every door blocker who was interviewed was much wider than that).
But one detail was added: Where the walls meet the floors, there's a so-called gallery reveal — a recess that's about half an inch deep and half an inch high.
The question is what constitutes a recess.
With the Senate situation in flux, House members were growing increasingly wary about taking a pre-recess vote on a health plan with a hefty surtax on the affluent if it was not going to see the light of day in the Senate.
As such, Congress is about to recess not with a victorious bang, but rather with a bleat of resignation.
It doesn't help that the Senate is about to take a weeklong recess starting on October 9. "Some in Congress are taking the issue seriously," said Ku. "But overall, the federal government, including Congress, is having difficulties right now because of partisan strife".
"We are not going to publicly speculate about future recess appointments," Schultz said in a statement to The Huffington Post.
Analysts say the president is unlikely to move before the runoff election for Louisiana's senate seat on 5 December, and that he may wait until Congress goes into recess about a week later.
