This gets more and more interesting every day.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has a little trick up his sleeve that could spell an end to President Bush’s devilish recess appointments of controversial figures like former United Nations Ambassador John Bolton. We hear that over the long August vacation, when those types of summer hires are made, Reid will call the Senate into session just long enough to force the prez to send his nominees who need confirmation to the chamber. The talk is he will hold a quickie “pro forma” session every 10 days, tapping a local senator to run the hall. Senate workers and Republicans are miffed, but Reid is proving that he’s the new sheriff in town.

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Written by Guss

One Response to “Bush’s Summer Hires Targeted”

1. ~J~ says:

   May 22, 2007 at 7:29 am

   I have an even better idea. Why doesn’t the Congress forego their month-long August vacation and they don’t have to worry about pulling anyone in from a local area?

   Anyone Bush sends up for confirmation isn’t going to get in anyway, so he’s satisfied his constitutional obligations by submitting nominees and can just sit out the rest of his presidency with acting directors of whichever departments are affected.