"Acting" Secretarys, "Acting" Directors, "Acting" Deputys - everyone by-passes Senate confirmation.

[kentuck]

The previous President had more "acting" Department heads than anyone in history. They were his hand-picked puppets. They were set up to assist in an attempted coup.

How was that allowed to happen? Isn't the Senate supposed to confirm Cabinet positions?

Why has it not yet been fixed?

[Hugh_Lebowski]

1. SO MANY THINGS that Trump's attempted coup exposed ...

Not to mention his campaign's collusion w/Russians, downplaying of COVID resulting in >600,000 deaths, the Ukraine shit that led to his first impeachment, and rules that allowed for his replacement of science with bullshit across most of the government ... remain unfixed.

Frankly I'm fairly disgusted with the whole situation.

We're sitting ducks.

[RockRaven]

2. It was allowed to happen because those were the rules in place at the time and GrOPers were

thrilled to have one of their own being the one pushing the envelope for their own gain, so there was no possibility of them attempting to restrain it. Of course they would have been outraged if the shoe had been on the other foot, but it wasn't so they weren't. The House has no power to do anything about the matter by itself, and Repukes controlled the rest (and even the House for half the term).

The former guy exposed that far too much deference is paid to the idea of honest, good-faith actors in the system. But current day Repukes in Congress, and SCOTUS, have shown that amplifying inter-branch "checks and balances" is a sure fire way to cripple any Dem POTUS. So how can it be fixed?

It a fucking disaster. Our government structure is a disaster, so long as Repukes have any majorities.

[jmowreader]

3. One of the Detrumpification Acts needs to be...

...a maximum time limit on acting department heads.

I would say someone can serve as an acting DH for 14 days before her or his name is placed into consideration for Senate confirmation. The Senate has seven days to accept or decline consideration and one month to debate on the nominee. If the nominee receives a confirmation denial they must leave the post. If the Senate refuses to either accept or decline consideration (because someone elects another Mitch McConnell and he gets control of the Senate) then the nominee is automatically approved. If the Senate declines three candidates in a row without a good reason (to prevent Mitch McConnell from stonewalling all of a Democratic president's nominees) then all but one Republican in each chamber must retire to the anteroom while the Democrats introduce and pass a gun control bill, an abortion-liberalization bill, an infrastructure bill and a bill forbidding any more tax cuts for the next 150 years.

[monkeyman1]

4. republican party - acting congress people , all acting like representatives for us !!