Tea Party blocks Obama appointees

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MILLER: Tea Party blocks Obama appointees
House conservatives stymie recess appointments for radicals

By Emily Miller

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The Washington Times

7:15 p.m., Thursday, August 4, 2011

Anti-business liberals aren’t going to sneak their way into powerful administration positions this summer. Recess appoinments are a traditional method used by the White House - under both parties - to fill government slots without Senate confirmation.

Rep. Jeff Landry will keep that from happening by using pro forma House sessions to prevent the Senate from going into recess.

“I came to Congress on a strict constructionist wave - that the Tea Party stands for - which is three co-equal branches of government,” Mr. Landry told The Washington Times. “We want to prevent the president from making appointments that the Senate clearly rejected or would not confirm.”

Republicans in both chambers fear, for example, that President Obama would bypass the opposition of 44 GOP senators and hand Richard Cordray a recess appointment as head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). They are trying to use the nomination fight to leverage the administration into restructuring the new Big Brother agency to make it more accountable.

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