Pharaoh Obama once again going around Congress, blaming republicans for the appointment. Another power grab by the dictator in chief!
Speaker.gov: Speaker Boehner called the appointment an “extraordinary and entirely unprecedented power grab,†and noted that the position “had not been filled for one reason: the agency it heads is bad for jobs and bad for the economy.â€
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Obama sets up clash with Congress over recess banking pick
“Congressional officials said President Obama used his recess appointment powers Wednesday to name a head for the controversial Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in a move Republican lawmakers said amounted to an unconstitutional power grab.
The president acted just a day after the Senate held a session — a move that breaks with at least three different precedents that said the Senate must be in recess for at least three days. Mr. Obama himself was part of two of those precedents, both during his own time in the Senateand again in 2010 when one of his administration’s top constitutional lawyers made the three-day argument to the Supreme Court….” Read More @ Washington Times