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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: Win Smith who wrote (179053)1/11/2012 8:34:30 PM
From: Wharf Rat  Read Replies (1) of 541912
 
"it doesn't seem fine that the Congress get to cripple the Executive branch in its constitutional duties to carry out the law by refusing to let executive appointments even be considered"

One of the Constitutional powers given to the executive branch is the ability to adjourn Congress. Another is to make appointments when Congress isn't in session,; eg adjourned. All the pres had to do was to say,"This session is over, I'll call another one when I feel like it." He didn't. He ain't Teddy Roosevelt.

On December 7, 1903, President Teddy Roosevelt made over 160 recess appointments during a recess of less than one minute between the bangs of a gavel ending one session of congress and beginning the next session. It was, as Roosevelt put it, a "constructive recess."

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