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  Obama issues 15 recess appointments
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AuthorEd O'Keefe
News DateWednesday, March 24, 2010 09:40:00 PM UTC0:0
DescriptionPresident Obama issued 15 recess appointments on Saturday, including two picks for the deadlocked National Labor Relations Board. One of the nominees, Craig Becker, is strongly opposed by Republicans.

By law Obama can install nominees without Senate confirmation during a Congressional recess. The two-week Congressional Easter break began on Friday. But the picks can only serve through the end of the next Congressional session, meaning the 15 appointed on Saturday will serve through the end of 2011 unless they earn Senate confirmation.

In a statement Obama said the Senate has a responsibility to give up or down votes to his nominees.

"But if, in the interest of scoring political points, Republicans in the Senate refuse to exercise that responsibility, I must act in the interest of the American people and exercise my authority to fill these positions on an interim basis," adding later that, "I simply cannot allow partisan politics to stand in the way of the basic functioning of government.”
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