President Obama made 3 recess appointments..

[one_voice]

Obama makes 3 NLRB recess appointments

After making an end run around Senate Republicans to fill the top job at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on Wednesday, President Barack Obama ran the same play again a few hours later, making three recess appointments to bring the National Labor Relations Board to full strength.

The president used his power to name Sharon Block, Terence Flynn and Richard Griffin to the board, which arbitrates workplace disputes and federal labor issues and has recently drawn considerable fire from Republicans after it sided with an aircraft workers’ union in a dispute with aerospace giant Boeing.

When the term of Craig Becker, another Obama recess appointee, expired at the end of last month, the five-member board no longer had a quorum, threatening its continued operation.

Block and Griffin are Democrats, while Flynn is a Republican.

“The American people deserve to have qualified public servants fighting for them every day — whether it is to enforce new consumer protections or uphold the rights of working Americans,” Obama said in a statement. “We can’t wait to act to strengthen the economy and restore security for our middle class and those trying to get in it, and that’s why I am proud to appoint these fine individuals to get to work for the American people.”

Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0112/71086.html#ixzz1iXjCZQMk

edited to change title of thread..
edited a second time cuz I didn't do it right the first time.

[Cleita]

1. K&R

[NNN0LHI]

2. edited a second time cuz I didn't do it right the first time

I hate when that happens.

Thanks for posting. Edits and all.



Don

[joshcryer]

3. Surprised me! Saw it on the national news and it was awesome!

I kinda knew it was coming but posts denigrating the President suggested to me it wouldn't happen, until I started digging for myself, and found a Business Week report that said he was going to do it.

[bigtree]

4. k&R

[Dawson Leery]

5. "Moderate"* Susan Collins was furious about this.

*There is no such thing as a moderate Republican anymore. In addition there are but a handful of principled conservative Republicans.
95%+ of Republicans are insane reactionaries who desire to take the world back to the dark ages of the 1300's.

[Jackpine Radical]

6. I think Santorum is a reincarnation of Torquemada.

Paul, on the other hand, is a reincarnation of one of the Pope Urbans.