Recess appointments are allowed by the constitution only when the Senate is in recess.
With Congress in recess, there were no major demonstrations planned in the nation's capital.
Well, he used his executive constitutional power to appoint Cordray while Congress was in recess.
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The Constitution allows for such appointments without Senate approval when Congress is in recess.
But staff-level conversations are taking place this week while the House is in recess.
But according to the Democrat majority controlled Senate, the Senate was not in recess on January 4.
Both chambers are scheduled to be in recess for part of next week, to mark Veteran's Day.
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Who is the Vice President talking to as the House is in recess?
After their humiliation at the polls, opposition leaders were conciliatory, offering to declare Congress in recess to avoid clashes with the assembly.
The Senate was no more in recess than if they had gone home on Friday night to return the next Monday for work!
The last day of the session is oftentimes spent in recess or sitting on the chamber floor as final issues are worked out.
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With Congress in recess and Washington largely abandoned last week, the FCC issued three major orders, comprising some four hundred pages of dense text.
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In the very press release put out by a Republican congresswoman arguing against the recess appointment, she acknowledged that the Senate was in recess.
Former Senator and GOP presidential candidate Rick Santorum said yesterday Obama was trying to go above the law because Congress was not technically in recess.
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Now we know why there was little fanfare surrounding the release, which occurred on a sleepy August afternoon while Congress is in recess and Obama was away on vacation.
The fact of the matter is -- and again, if you have any doubts, please head up to the Hill and check out for yourself -- Congress is in recess.
The company argued that, as the Senate was not technically in recess at the time of the appointments, the board had not been legally constituted and that a quorum did not exist.
And there have been a number of rather enlightening instances in the past 24 hours of confirmation by unusual sources of the fact that the House and Senate are indeed in recess.
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