Reply #14: I know it's not simple.

[toddwv]

But what they have been doing is ridiculous.

There are limitations to it. Reading it over again, it looks like it may be possible for the President to adjourn Congress when the houses disagree about adjournment. So if he can get Reid to work with him, then the Senate just takes the opposite of what the House does and the President can adjourn.

Extraordinary occasions isn't a big problem. This seems to imply that it should be something that doesn't happen often. I would think that once per term would be extraordinary to fit the bill.

I know he won't do it, I would just love to watch the "party of the Constitution" spin their heads off trying to explain why a Constitutionally enumerated presidential power is unconstitutional.