Everyone is talking about President Obama’s blatant misuse of his authority by recess appointing his nominees, two union crony picks, Sharon Block and Richard Griffin to the National Labor Relations Board – to the point where even the former Chair of the NLRB, Peter Schaumber, is fuming with understandable outrage.
“There has to be a recess of longer than three days in order for the President to name a recess appointment,” argued Schaumber on CNBC recently pointing out how President Obama referred his two nominees to the NLRB in mid-December when the Senate only adjourned rather than go on recess. “They didn’t even submit their paperwork … [t]hey had to go through some vetting and none of that occurred here. This is really extraordinary.”
“The President has kind of arrogated to himself the decision as to whether or not the Senate is in recess,” said Schaumber.
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He’s not the only one wondering about that. As Schaumber said, it’s very likely these appointments will be found “invalid.” It’s made a bad situation even worse. And who loses in the end?
The American worker and small business.
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