Bush again pushes 3 nominees seen as pro-industry

[Rose Siding]

Source: LA Times

The president could skirt the Senate by using recess appointments.
WASHINGTON — The White House has renominated three people for top jobs affecting the environment who were previously blocked in Congress because of their pro-industry views.

According to industry lobbyists and Republican aides in Congress, Bush intends to skirt the Senate approval process if necessary by making recess appointments to put the three nominees in the posts.

All three have ties to industries that face costly Environmental Protection Agency restrictions, and all three have previously bypassed or questioned the EPA's scientific process.
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Boxer now heads the Environment and Public Works Committee, where the names have been sent again. "I view it as an enormous threat to public health that the president refuses to back off," she said. The committee plans hearings on both men this month.


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[C_U_L8R]

1. this recess appointment nonsense

needs to go away. The process is so abused.

[depakid]

5. I would actually question its constitutionality

Seems to me that the way the process has been used, violates the Article 2, Section 2 (the Advice and Consent clause) of the Constitution.

[salin]

2. Bush: I don't need no stinkin' congress!

This wannabe autocrat continues to demonstrate that he wants to drag his party down with him - so that Rove's dream, a one-party dominated govt can come to reality... just that it will be the opposite party than the one he intended to 'throne'. That is political poetic justice in the making.

[yourout]

3. When the Dems take the White House they need to change.....

so recess appointments are only good until the next session of Congress to end this BS.

[grannylib]

4. That little weenie brain just doesn't get it, does he?

The Democrats need to reign in this shit like NOW. Fuckin' arrogant losers and their 'political capital' all of which was stolen, and that by the slimmest of margins...

Better wake up and smell the shit you're standing in, you and Turd Blossom and Cheney, Dick, and all the other corporate whores who have dumped this pile of excrement. There IS a new Congress in town; you DON'T own the damn country; you are NOT a king, and emperor, a dictator, or even legitimately the president of this nation. You are a liar and a killer and a thief and deserve prison for the rest of your life.