said on social media that the Constitution “expressly confers the power on the President to make recess appointments.” Chafetz said he can’t recall an instance when the Senate recessed ...

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, the Democrat leading the Senate under Bush, then decided to make it so that the chamber simply never recessed long enough for such an appointment to be made.

“Any Republican Senator seeking the coveted LEADERSHIP position in the United States Senate must agree to Recess Appointments (in the Senate!), without which we will not be able to get people ...

President Trump is threatening to use his powers to adjourn Congress so he can make recess appointments for at least some of his top Cabinet nominees and their deputies, enabling them to begin ...

On Sunday, he stepped into the conversation, demanding in a Truth Social post that anyone seeking the position as leader "must agree to Recess Appointments." Recess appointments enable a president ...

The Constitution included that power in an era when reconvening a recessed Congress would take ... Yet Trump’s references to recess appointments were vague, and it was unclear exactly why ...

With some of his selections sparking controversy, Trump has also been coming in hot on his desire to use "recess appointments" to bypass Senate approval and quickly put his choices in place.

Five justices upheld a president’s ability to make recess appointments if the Senate recessed for more than 10 days. Four of the conservative justices, however, wanted to narrow the president ...

Recess appointments are when the president appoints a federal official while the U.S. Senate is in recess. Various presidential appointments must be approved by the Senate and go through a hearing ...

For all the drama generated every four years by Cabinet appointments, defeat of a nominee by a vote in the Senate is extremely rare. The only time a nominee by a new president was rejected by a ...