It was holding pro-forma sessions lasting a few minutes each day, a non-recess recess organized specifically to prevent Mr. Obama from making appointments).
So, if circumventing gridlock in order to promote the financial "health, safety and welfare" of the American people by way of a recess appointment during a highly questionable non-recess recess gets us to the finish line, sign me up.
When legislation is passed by both the U.S. Senate and the House of Representatives and signed into law by the President, Senators have blocked recess appointments of unobjectionable nominees in the past, preventing their appointment, though the technicality of a "pro-forma session" (aka the "non-recess recess").
A Slide During Recess The August recess has exacted a toll.
Recess came, recess went and at 10am on Monday morning a very respected select committee chairman came up to one rebel and asked for a meeting.
The court even broke with the presidential practice of 150 years by ruling that only vacancies arising during a narrow recess period qualify for recess appointments.
The Senate should not be cut out of the confirmation process so easily.The panel went further, noting that the Founding Fathers referred to "the recess", not "a recess", when circumscribing the president's powers.
22 July Summer recess begins. 1 September: Summer recess ends.
A16 The House Begins Recess The House recessed until after the election, joining the Senate in an 11-day cooling-off period and hoping that the contentious disputes over spending, immigration, taxes and workplace safety rules could be ironed out in a lame-duck session.
In a letter to House Speaker John A. Boehner, Representative Nancy Pelosi, Democrat of California, requested that the speaker cancel next week's recess – the ninth House recess of the year – and stay in Washington to work on the highway bill and a solution to the fight over how to extend current student loan rates, and to begin the debate over what to do about the Bush-era tax cuts.
