Obama defies GOP lawmakers with recess appointments
RECESS? WHAT RECESS? I AM CHIEF! I DON’T NEED NO STINKIN’ RECESS!!!
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President Obama defied Republican lawmakers on Wednesday when he bypassed Congress and invoked presidential recess appointment authority to install former Ohio attorney general Richard Cordray to head the newly created Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
Republicans blasted the move by Obama as constitutionally dubious, arguing that the Senate was in “pro forma session” and technically not in recess. Meanwhile, business groups, such as the powerful U.S. Chamber of Commerce, expressed disappointment with the decision and said that Cordray’s authority as the consumer watchdog could ultimately be challenged in the courts.
For his part, Obama charged Republicans with foot-dragging on Cordray’s appointment of the agency tasked with oversight of non-bank financial companies.
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